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Like dating. the way you treated the last girl is how you're going to treat the next girl. the way we treat our allies like france and the e.u., it's likely how we are going to treat south korea and the allies that we rely on that we used to rely on to deal with north korea. how do they feel as we walk into the high stakes summit where their lives are at stake, their lives are on the line? >> first, i think our allies count on us being the most prepared, most ready for any diplomatic confrontation. when we telegraph, hey, we're not preparing, we're not trying to figure out exactly what may or ...

Times. john kirby, let's just start with your reaction to the president's news. >> >> reporter: absolutely significant news and good for those families and three americans. this is what we would call the state department a cbm, a confidence building measure baked into the plan to agree to have trump sit down with kim jong-un. so you saw that kim didn't react to the exercises. kim hasn't done any launches and now kim is releasing three americans. all part of a orchestrated framework to get to the summit. obviously good news and certainly indicative of the fact that kim jong-un is taking this su...

The u.s. concerned that it's sending too soft a signal to kim jong-un. how do you feel about that? >> during the last 30 years, three generations of this family have provoked the united states and the regional partners, then demanded negotiations and then got a reward and then provoke again, so we shouldn't assume anything's going to come out of the north-south dialogue, not that it's necessarily bad. the economic sanctions may well indeed be having an impact on knot korea. but at the end of the day, it is impossible to imagine that the north koreans will denuclearize, so to some extent, this ...

Now he's saying he's not going to do it. he said he's open to speaking with kim jong-un. it makes you wonder if kim jong-un's strategy, is it starting to pay off? well, the u.s. president, donald trump, and south korea's president, they say actually quite the opposite. they say that north korea will denuclearize. but it might not happen right away. they say the talks need to continue. president trump saying he's opening open to speaking with kim jong-un, while still insisting that north korea give up its nuclear arsenal. but look at today's article in north korea's leading newspaper. it says, ...

Should get to the place where it recognizes north korea's nuclear power and maybe caps but lives with them having nuclear weapon intercontinental ballistic missiles? >> i think the train has left the station a long time ago on whether or not north korea will denuclearize. it was made abundantly clear to me when i was there there was no way they were going to denuclearize. that is a nonstarter. they have gone to school on the likes of moammar gadhafi and saw what happened to him when he negotiated his weapons of mass destruction. they are not going to willingly give up nuclear weapons. >> direc...