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Better than in either of the two previous administrations, one republican, one democrat. we put sanctions in place that is unequalled. we're continuing to enforce that. we made it clear that we will continue to enforce sanction regime until such time as denuclearization as we defined it is complete. pressure on the regime is clearly being felt. we have lots of work to do. unlike previous administrations, senator, we have no intention of allowing the un sanctions, the world's sanctions, that we led the charge to have put in place to align those sanctions to either be lifted or not enforced. unt...

Here's what i also understand. the united states has suspended military exercises with south korea. that north korea hasn't started returning american war dead despite the announcement that the returns had already taken place. china and russia continue to export oil to north korea in violation of the u.n. resolutions -- >> sanctions that didn't exist before this regime took office. >> and north korea still has chemical and biological weapons and brutalizes its own people. there's no verifiable evidence that there's no denuclearization. i'm afraid at this point the united states, the trump admi...

Done in "the washington post" and "the new york times." >> it's a very important point of information that we get though, to know whether or not north korea is either overtly covertly, however they're doing it, making advancements in their nuclear program and still continuing a measure of their program. >> i did answer one question that touches on that at least. i answered a question from senator markey and whether they're continuing to create fissile material. i answered that they are. >> the goal originally i think was complete verifying denuclearization by the end of the president's first t...

You put it to follow up on commitments made in singapore. let's talk act those commitments for a minute. you mentioned they have committed to denuclearization. they may have a different read-out than we do on what that entails. so far they seem to be walking back any real commitment that was made there. what commitment, firm commitment, other than discussion of returning remains, i'm not discounting that, but in terms of denuclearization what real commitments were made? >> yeah, i'm not going to get into the private commitments that have been shared. i don't think it's fair to characterize the...

Denuclearization. you used denuclearization. are they all the same terms? >> yes. denuclearization according to u.s. law and security resolutions? >> yes. >> why the different words? >> sometimes one needs to just breakaway. i'm happy to use the term complete verifiable denuclearization. they mean the same thing. >> the determination, was that addressed at the singapore summit with president trump and chairman kim? >> it was. >> the cvid, why was it not in the communique? >> i'd rather not talk about the course of the negotiations and how we arrived at the language