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That's quite a headline. what do you know? >> reporter: what we learned from talking to a number of officials about this new intelligence assessment is that north korea has been increasing its uranium enrichment program in recent weeks and did he have netly since the singapore summit and that they are actively working to try to deceive the u.s. on the extent of its program in terms of the number of missiles they have or number of facilities they have. so while the president is saying that two things north korea is no longer a threat and that north korea has committed to denuclearize, the intel...

They have a plutonium processing facility at yongbyon. they have probably a very sophisticated uranium enrichment program in which they are spinning cascades, centrifuges in which they are building additional capability to develop nuclear weapons through that path. they have long-range intercontinental ballistic muscles which can hit chicago and denver. the only yard chic, brian, which which we can measure success of this entire process is not whatever statement comes out tonight. it's whether those missiles, those weapons, those nuclear faciti are removed and the danger is removed -- the thre...

Framework. we thought it was a successful agreement. it was in 2002 we found out north korea was cheating on that agreement by separately pursuing uranium enrichment program. it's going to be many years before we know if there's a successful agreement and that's a big if because tonight could just produce a joint statement that's not a real agreement yet. >> there's a new york expression, couldn't hurt. how can a summit make anything worse? how could it make it worse if these two leaders for the first time took their measure of each other? >> it's certainly better than l this preventive strike...

Delivery system, if they ever got a nuclear weapon. in the '90s, they had no nuclear weapons. when george bush came in, he decided to go in another way. we found out that north korea had a secret uranium enrichment program as opposed to just plutonium, and things started to fall apart. but what i think is important here is, you've got to have a game plan. you have to know the right a left margins. you have to have a team ready to go to do the details and the hard work. and indeed, as both suzanne and rick have pointed out, this talk is better than nothing at all. diplomacy beats war. but diplo...

Going to give up all their nuclear weapons. they must have processed through. they've been very strategic so far. what do you think they're going to do? >> an agreement where they say we will denuclearize. they could go for a peace treaty. they might even give something up front like it's going to look really good, look like north korea is turning a new leaf, ballistic missiles, a new facility and get out and buy time and wait out the administration. this is a couple years' game, even 1994 reframework. we didn't know it has failed until 2002 when we found out that north korea was cheating on t...