and north korea. so that in a moment if i can daryn i just want to make something clear to you here which is telling you what i think is going to happen and quite a bit of this is guesswork and you know what i think there might be some guesswork on the part of the white house because they're relying on what the north koreans said they were going to do we know it might have been it was hastily arranged as president trump said it's been arranged in the last 24 hours but this has been arranged pretty quickly and chairman kim is coming from pyongyang for this meeting that is a bumpy journey along the highway so i think it may well not just be me guessing when he's going or arrive i think even president trump or those around him in the white house will be guessing and certainly in terms of the white house official schedule normally the late just sticks for a presidential trip are laid down many by minutes he should really be ending his trip to this to the d.m.z. zone and getting on alley culture and going

look at the policies and the history of north korea you'll see that there is a really a rapid. sort of extreme continuity in policy decisions in domestic and foreign policy and so you know with that context in mind when you see these reports about you know the mass execution and purging of those who are so close to the top leadership you are really initially skeptical you take it i guess not just with a grain of salt but with sort of you know metric tons of salt. there's always been these sort of brutal reports out of north korea over the years of leaders executing officials that didn't please them in the stories go all the way to you know it's shooting them with a missile at a military base or putting them you know all this that's one thing i noticed was that in this recent story in the original story that sparked all of this coverage they're very specifically the end of it said the rumors have not been verified and this is listen translated obviously the rumors not verified and it is possible the regime is deliberately spreading misinformation let me ask you this about north

and north korea. at that time i tried to convey a message to my friends got a window of dialogue should be kept open to north korea while maintaining our petition. i believe that the pressure without dialogue was unlikely to change their behavior. september, 2017 the second strategic forum was held during an exceptionally dramatic moment. only two days before the scheduled date of the form, north korea tested a nuclear weapon which they claimed it was too early for us at the time to be sure if a detected nuclear weapon was really this bomb or if the test had been successful. the delegation tried to deliver a message that peace should be the top priority in any case and that it was time for the u.s. to engage north korea to stop their provocations. but for the trump administrati administration, it was still an option and tension between the u.s. and korea escalates until the games in february the following year while the foundation agreed for the forum to be held in the summit when it would take place

to north korea. so contrary to very hastily arrange but contrary to that it is not the will to continue the dialogue. so he does want to appeal directly to president trump and then pass that engagement of dialogue. and obviously we have seen president trump on his part with negotiations shooting with those short range missiles and with the prime minister of tokyo. and he said he is open to another summit. so i think that is positive. so that we have at the moment with the intercontinental and nuclear we have a freeze on that. for the us and south korea doing military exercises and therefore speaking wrongly of each other and we have not returned to those days. so where are we with that? so i do agree with the first panel i do think it is certainly possible and the united states reportedly was ready but now all of that remains in play. the difference has not been given because i think it was over reach. but all of this could be forthcoming in the future. so what we all talked about today and the scena

1st visit by a chinese president to north korea in 14 years and it comes at a very important time north korea's negotiations with the u.s. over did nuclearization have stalled and president xi will meet with leaders of the other g. 20 nations next week a lot to talk about and pyongyang let's take a look at where things stand between the 2 allies. it's been less than 6 months since his handshake kim jong un has visited china north korea's closest foreign ally many times over the years. she jinping on the other hand is the 1st chinese leader to travel to pyongyang and well over a decade. we are ready to work with the d.p. r. k. to continue to carry forward the fine tradition of china d p r k friendship and promote the continuous development of exchanges and cooperation between the 2 countries in various fields. relations between the 2 authoritarian countries have been strained since north korea began amping up its nuclear weapons test. beijing supports denuclearization of the korean peninsula and recently backed the raft of international sanctions against. these talks aimed to relieve ten

get smuggled into north korea from china, i've been to north korea. generally the control of information is absolute. people have been living so long under the l totalitarian system that they believe the propaganda, they are -- they may know it's false but they don't have access to alternate sources of s information. so that is -- they are processing the information that they are given. and what they have been given is that north korea fired missiles that it f decided to ramp up it nuclear program and after it fired missiles extended the range of its missiles, carried out a number of nuclear tests. the president of the united states, the most powerful country on earth, came begging. there was a recent exchange of letters. president trump said that he received a beautiful letter from kim jong un on his birthday, and that letter prompted president trump to respond in kind, sending hkim jong un a letter. and that letter diplomacy may in fact have set the groundwork for what we're seeing right now. inside north korea, however, it was not portrayed that wa

for north korea. it's great for the world. when i started this, they had missiles flying over japan. i think you all remember the case of hawaii. you remember that whole situation. you remember guam. you remember what was happening there. the world was a very tense place. i became president, and be we went through a rough dialogue for a while. you covered it very well. but we went through a very rough time. and all of a should be we came together. steve is going to do a fantastic job. he'll be representing us in the talks. and we'll be dealing with south korea, we'll be dealing with president moon and his people. but pretty much the initial talks will be between the united states and north korea. and president moon will be right there. >> what was chairman kim response to your invitation. president trump: we were contacted immediately. i asked hip outside. you want to come over. i would certainly extend the invite. but i mentioned out there in front of the press, i said any time he want to do it. but

today north korea is the most impenetrable state on the planet. yes over the past 20 years professor morey musser taka a leading japanese academic has gradually won the confidence of peon young secretive rulers. like a healthy boy he joined us. shows how was i not only saigon orders and president of the us so they must. now mari has persuaded p.r. nyang to allow our cameras to follow him through his latest visit it is an unprecedented step foreign journalists are routinely banned from entering north korea we will be working under strict control told where and what we can film and accompanied by government officials at all times. yet we will also be taken deep into the heart of this most hidden country to meet men who claim to have witnessed america's use of germ warfare firsthand. in the center of pyongyang the korean army maintains a vast museum dedicated to documenting its version of the war with america. inside professor morey examines a room given over to what north korea claims to be direct evidence of germ warfare by the united states includ

north korea summit north korea destroyed their nuclear facilities but the u.s. did nothing and trump sank the hanoi summit more pro and anti trump protests are expected as this weekend unfolds with everyone it seems unsure exactly how this visit will play out let's. sell obviously very much interest in this possible missing with can talk us through transcend the rest of the day. that's right he has been talking about this potential meeting but there's also been talking about the trade deals that he has renegotiated with south korea tweeting of the he and moon j.n. of south korea have been toasting this new deal that's been a word of clarification there is not necessarily a new trade deal this is something of a retread it was a trade deal agreed a few years ago between the u.s. and south korea as with many trade deals donald trump didn't like it when it came to office has been renegotiating it and there were some concessions last year but nonetheless he has been talking about trade talking about the success of the g. 20 at a breakfast meeting with himself and his

and north korea but also between north and south as well? >> reporter: jim, i should add that we saw donald trump's motorcade pass by a few minutes ago, and then his helicopter, so he is on his way to where you guys are on the dmz. what does this mean? look, donald trump is hoping that this is a recess in relations between the united states and north korea. obviously those talks stalled in february after the hanoi summit abruptly ended, but certainly donald trump is looking at this gesture as a way to regain momentum on denuclearizing the korean peninsula. certainly speaking, jim, to many analysts, they feel this is theatrics, this is a photo opportunity albeit a symbolic of a photo opportunity. it legitimatizes kim jong un. this man is a dictator, a human rights abuser and he's also somebody who executes, orders the executions of his family members. here to talk about this and much more is an adjunct senior fellow with the center for new american security and columnist for the atomic scientist. does this legitimatize kim jong un? >> absolut

president in office to cross into north korea. but once again from doha everyone come out santamaria with the world news from al-jazeera answering the call to protests people in sudan have returned to the streets as part of a 1000000 strong march demanding military leaders hand over power to civilians. also albanians vote in disputed local elections that have split the country pitting the president against prime minister. i'm going to see a new man in front of the chilean consulate in papua parole just near the border with chile in the desert and this is becoming the latest flashpoint in the venezuelan migrant crisis. france really committed the united states to starting up or restarting the nuclear talks with north korea after a historic meeting with kim jong un trump met kim at the demilitarized zone on the border of north and south korea where he became the 1st u.s. president to set foot in the north while still in office our diplomatic at the james bones reports now from. the demilitarized zone in south korea. this went just t

risking the defensive posture of north korea. >> how confident are you that north korea is going to come to the table with president trump and have some sort of substantive change? i remain kept cskeptical. as we've seen in the past, from a military perspective, we judge things by what has occurred throughout history, and the potential for things happening in the future. hi historically, they have brought things to the table, only to have it squashed, in terms of what could result. we've seen that, in the last two years, as president trump's reached out. that's not any different from any past presidents. that's always their hope, that north korea will come to the table and join the league of nations, as it were. there hasn't been the results coming from those meetings. north korea wants sanctions released desperately. it depends on what kinds of those meetings, that will get over -- not only that, but how it will come about. this is what i'm talking about. he said, good luck, steve. we don't know how beigun will be. part of it said that kim jong-un received certainly disappeared. can the

and north korea. a third north korea-u.s. summit and the timing of that, really that would depend on what kind of change today's encounter will bring about. but we have expectations for future developments obviously. the last portion of your question related to yongbyon nuclear complex and whether if that is completely dismantled with sincerity then that would mean irreversible denuclearization, or the beginning of an irreversible denuclearization from the part of north korea. so if those types of actions are taken out in sincerity then a consideration of the international community for sanctions relief could happen, i was giving you a context or a background to my thoughts. >> -- this afternoon. however, as i mentioned, the focus of the dialogue today will be the dialogue between the united states and north korea. and of course president trump and chairman kim will have a reunion and have subsequent dialogue, and i hope and i do believe that this is vastly significant for the dialogue that will follow after the meeting today

do to encourage north korea to give up its weapons what could north korea do further to encourage the united states to ease up on its economy north korea frankly thinks it's already done enough on the nuclear weapons front and now it's the u.s. is trying to act all right journalist chris harrison in the south korean capital seoul we thank you for that. let's turn now to some of the other stories making news around the world hundreds of demonstrators have taken to the streets of sudan calling for the ruling military council to hand over power to a civilian administration to rally in owned or mon near the capital khartoum took place on the eve of a planned to mass protest organized by the opposition. severe flooding has left at least 3 people dead and submerged thousands of homes in russia's southeastern your crew 3 generally around a 100 people have been hospitalized rescue teams deployed both and helicopters to bring residents to safety the flood affected around 50 communities more rain is forecast for the region in the coming days. the mercury is set to start dropping in parts of eur

north korea's borders. the korean peninsula of course divided since the end of the korean war in the 19505. the diplomacy between the two nations, the united states and north korea, was non—existent for many, many decades and just in the last two years since donald trump has been elected to office, things have started to move forward. they have stabbed sub— steps forward in a couple of steps back before as well. stephen mcdonnell, alp correspondent, —— our correspondent. they are walking to south korean territory to pose for a photograph ona territory to pose for a photograph on a south korean soil. president moon of south korea is also in the entourage or has been earlier in the visit with president trump who had a state visit in the soul last night and kimjong—un are now standing on and kimjong—un are now standing on a south korean soil. just seeing if we can pick up any of the conversation. as you can see, it is a little bit chaotic with the media. although the visit to the dmz was not planne

today on the show, north korea and iran. trump's radically different approaches to his two biggest nuclear problems. a friendly meet and greet in the dmz with kim. as words of war fly back and forth with tehran. i will talk to the iranian ambassador to the u.n. and with a great family. >>> but first, here's my take. given president trump's mean spirit and often bigoted attitudes on immigration, it pains me to say this, he is right. that the united states face as crisis with its asylum system. democrats might hope that the out of control situation at the southern border undermines trump's image among his base as a tough guy who can tackle immigration. but they should be careful. it could actually work to the president's advantage. since 2014, the flow of asylum seekers into the united states has skyrocketed. last year, immigration courts received 162,000 asylum claims. a 240% increase from 2014. the result is a staggering backlog with more than 300,000 asylum cases pending and the average immigration case has been pending for

and limitations on what you can say about north korea. we will get right back to her about the alliance. what do we think about these letters? usually think, there traditionally in the pomona quarters and flowery language. we know president trump read one letter last summer that he read from kim jong-un was very flowery. it didn't say holland, we doubt there's a lot of details and information necessarily. but i want to see if doctor lee has thoughts about what we think about the could be encompassed with these letters between the leaders in the president trump brings reporters into the oval office and have staff rings around him and brings about which was on the time magazine interview last week. which i think the reported attempted to take a voter, i don't know if you saw that in the transcript. the president got so upset he said i don't if you can read it but you could take a picture of her. and at one point he was put in prison if he did and violated the rule. so the letter was very important to the president and he seems to want them

to north korea. i think one of the scenarios that could come up now, we'll soon see, victor talked about worst-case scenario of president trump making announcement, not another summit, not having gotten anything from north korea, but what could be worse, he could announce perhaps as good gesture measure, some relief on sanctions by allowing for example the -- complex to reopen. give something to north korea at this juncture without having gotten anything from the north koreans. and last question on president moon jae-in. president moon was instrumental for this whole peace process. south koreans really want to engage and pursue dialogue. moon on diplomacy after 2017 with whole fire fury phase, it is president moon who invited kim to those olympics in south korea, and really pursued this track with diplomacy. president moon i do think was very important in terms of getting -- putting in the same room president trump and kim jong-un, just by inviting kim to the olympics to begin with. >> richard engel,

north korea north korea china friendship tower and also to break the historic ties both were fighting in the korean war which started 66 years ago and both sides need each other china needs north korea because it wants debility in the regions and of course north korea needs china because it's the economic lifeline of the country and without china they basically could not survive fabi in this meeting it comes just ahead of the g. 20 summit now how is that factoring in to this visit yet not i would say the timing is really crucial and i would really say that this summit is also a signal from xi jinping to would trump because trump needs china to pick his strategy of maximum pressure of keeping the sanctions if china wanted to it could easily open up the border and start economic cooperation again with north korea and then counter that strategy but of course china and china stephanie very worried about the u.s. trade or and that china will use that as a leverage in discussing trade well with trump and they will meet soon at the g. 20 summit in japan ok you mentioned the sanctions against

deal on the key question which is north korea's nuclear program north korea has given up nothing at this stage other than cutting back on nuclear testing and not testing any long range missiles the u.s. has not given much to north korea in terms of sanctions relief nothing who all they've done is stop military exercises so in terms of the substance what has changed not much but you do have this working relationship now really quite friendly relationship between lead to leaders and. you have a channel a line of human occasions that they can build on both of them i think want now rapid progress because both of them have a quite a tight timeline of course president trump's timeline we all know next year is election year in the united states he wants to keep north korea as one of his success stories he does not want this to fail in the next year and be used against him by his democratic challenger whoever that is for the north koreans they don't have to worry and kim doesn't have to worry about intellectual of what he did promise 5 year plan and we're now in the last year of that 5 year plan

in terms of focusing not just on north korea but on strengthening the alliance. with people like general brooks, general sharp and others, also a global general da to advance democracy were concerns. there was no more obvious reflection of that than when mark was president obama's ambassador because he really pushed forward with an agenda that focused on the global scope of the alliance. yes, the peninsula is important. there is a world out there that key korea and the united states could help shape. that was a fantastic message about the alliance. i'm concerned if we talked about present day and the alliance has lost some of that it's become more -- before it was a broad based pyramid. it's like an upside down pyramid now. where all of the alliance left on difficult and contentious issues which are north korea burden sharing, transition section 232 trade issues. so i agree with what tom christianson said in the panel, strongest asset the united states has today are allies and partners. i think looking over the past 10 years that we all need to do more to enhance

-north korea relations. reporter: the president went to the observation post which is a few hundred yard away from the peace house. we have seen the famous pictures of the blue buildings where officials from north and south korea could get together to discuss cross border issues. that is where president trump and kim jong-un and moon jae-in will meet. it's where all of the american presidents go when they go to visit the dmz. most of american presidents pick up a pair of binoculars and look across the dmz. president trump chose not to on this particular visit. but where he's going now is the dining facility where he's going to meet with some of the service members who are posted along the demilitarized zone. both american and south korean soldier. you will use relic collected over the years, then he'll travel to the area where the peace house is to meet with kim jong-un. in terms of what might come out of it other than the president getting to see the dmz is maybe some relationship building. if there is noth

-north korea relations. reporter: he's downplaying expectations of what might happen this afternoon. he says it's just a step. in describing it could be a very important step. you have got to go back to what your previous guest was talking about, the hanoi summit where there was heady expectation that kim jong-un was going to put on the table to sort of deal that might get him relief from sanctions. it might indicate a tangible step. he was going to shirt and dismantle then' nuclear facility. this is something south korea was pushing for a long time of and president moon discussed in that press conference. it may lead to the lifting of some sanctions. so kim came to the hanoi summit and put that on the table thinking he was going to get relief from sanctions. but in the run-up to that we learned that something like that was not going to be enough. president trump was going to ask for more and indeed he did. he said jong bong is just a part of it. he said we need the biological and miss isle program as well.

and north korea's going to reach that get between the 2 or in one or we so clear differences and. north korea wants a new 15 or court records of sanctions or you cannot release us has been waiting adamant there that it will not be willing to give a on this north korea actually engages in complete and they're all in nuclear right is a shot it appears however in recent weeks said maybe that was issued just shifting ever so slightly mr trump to they hinted at yes possibly we relieving some of the sanctions might be possible does that mean do you think that the compromise will come from the u.s. side. well it would have to come from all sides and let's not forget that north korea offered to destroy the the remaining player on loose in yongbyon and us said it was not in all of north korea would be to promise to destroy them all in there so perhaps now all of korea is willing to do it precisely there but the question is what is all of the facilities that they want true or not and destroy and dismantle and just exactly what kind of sanctions is us interested in lifting at this point and

president to set foot in north korea. that brief encounter at the korean demilitarized zone happened overnight as the president tweeted an invitation on saturday. kim jong-un said he was surprised by the initial offer and accepted due to their, quote, excellent relationship. trump, of course, is opening the door to a possibility of another summit with kim. >> we just had a very, very good meeting with chairman kim. the team will try and work out some details. speed is not the object. we want to see if we can do a really comprehensive, good deal. this was a very legendary, very historic day. it was quick notice. nobody saw this coming. in speaking with president moon, oftentimes he was saying this is historic. just the meeting is historic. a lot has already come up, because you see what's going on and you see what's happening and you see the level of relationship as opposed to the way it was when i came into office. when i came into office, it was a fiery mess. >> the leaders met behind closed doors for almost an hour, and

president to enter north korea long enough and. i'm going to see a new man in front of the chilean consulate in happier parole just near the border with chile in the upper comma desert and this is becoming the latest flashpoint in the venezuelan migrant crisis. japan is set to resume commercial whaling after 3 decades despite a massive fall in domestic consumption of whale meat. but we saw that saddam or at least one person has been killed in more mass protests protests is demanding the military hand over power to civilians protest organizers of what they want to be a 1000000 strong march of being calling on demonstrates is to go to the presidential palace in the capital khartoum the latest. also the deadline today was the deadline given by the african union to the transitional military council for them to hand over power to civilians but clearly that hasn't happened. well the military council is denying that it's behind the attack that killed a protester i look forward with a murder i mean let's you don't literally the military is

the border with north korea with the leader of north korea as j.n. said in his opening remarks there in very flowery terms talking about the flower of peace blossoming on the korean peninsula and all stemming as he put it from a tweet on saturday morning indeed robin so i mean this is clearly ordered south korea's interests and so do you feel like south korea has been getting involved in trying to mediate and make the sneezing happened this morning. i think there's nothing to be lost by either side in this beating happening it is obviously both in the interest personal interest of donald trump and also kim jong un and moon j and of south korea would see it has further advancing the stalled dialogue as south korea or moon j.n. his credibility has taken something of a hit ever since the failed summit in hanoi to certain extent it seems north korea has been blaming moon for maybe raising expectations for not getting the the american side enough on board and so snowe south korea will be looking for some way of moving this forward and one of the constants

>> in north korea? i think part of what's going on is donald trump is forming a personal relationship with kim jong-un which in many ways is unprecedented the history of north korea relations. is the first sitting president to go to north korea. it's the showing that we don't necessarily need china in order to negotiate with north korea. this is one of china's ways of inserting itself into the u.s. security situation in east asia. in order to get to north korea you have to go through us. >> and do you think there was a phone call or communications may have been between president xi jinping and kim jong-un saying do this? >> there could have been. at this point there appears to be enough personal rapport being built between donald trump and kim jong-un that you may not need xi jinping at all. >> while some of the presidents critics are saying it is too much fanfare, too much lovey-dovey if you will, you are saying it's a good move on the president trumps part to continue to forge this personal relationsh

korea and in the past north korea has always upset the international community the ins are asking museums accuse them of cheating and lying when they have been previous deals that's going to be difficult with regard to china and the trade deal well they're starting talks again they haven't got an agreement yet right james bays there are diplomatic editor. well earlier we also heard from kim jong un he called his relationship with trump great and said this meeting will have a positive effect on their future. that is. here i've always wanted to meet you at this place as a symbol of the separation of the north and the south and to remind you of the unfortunate past meeting at such a place shows that we are willing to put an end to the unfortunate past and also open a new future to provide positive opportunities in the future. let's go live now to rob mcbride is live for us from the south korean capital seoul so rob a lot was riding on this for the south korean president moon jay in you think is breathing something of a sigh of relief at this point. i think they'll be delighted by this but ye

intelligence or is the quality of journalism thout north korea lacking in both fact and context well here to help us understand north korea and the news about it is professor at the paul university organizer for the answer coalition author derrick ford thank you so much for joining us derek. can you tell us a bit about your research and experience regarding north korea and what you would consider the biggest misconceptions right now or about the nation. well that's a big question for sure so i've traveled to the d.p. r. k. i traveled to the korean peninsula multiple times and worked with the korean east asia and the united states for several years and i mean there's really so many misconceptions about about the deep you know usually when i tell my students that it's important to really forget everything that you think you know about the country you've heard in the united states because you know it's just ridiculous propaganda and i think that you know this latest incident is really another manifestation of of how ridiculous it is that these claims are taken from you know the chosen e

leader to cross into north korea. also in the news answering the call to protest people in sudan return to the streets as part of a 1000000 strong march demanding military leaders hand over power to civilians and albanians of voting in disputed local elections that have split the country placing the president against prime minister. along with your sports headlines tears for flores says his penalty miss uruguay knocked out of the corporate america. so donald trump is committed to restarting nuclear talks with north korea after a historic meeting with kim jong il and met kim at the demilitarized zone on the border of north and south korea where he became the 1st sitting u.s. president to set foot in the north are diplomatic editor james bays reports now from near the demilitarized zone in south korea. this. this went just the way president donald trump wanted pictures that will make history and potentially reinvigorate peace efforts waiting for him the other side of the line separating north korea and south korea kim j

north korea. kim jong-un accepted a last-minute invitation to meet at the dmz, which the president tweeted out just before leaving the g 20 in japan for south korea. both leaders agreed to restart the stalled nuclear talks between washington and pyongyang. >> i believe just looking at this, this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate all the unfortunate past and open a new future. >> i just want to say that this is my honor. i didn't really expect it. we were in japan for the g 20. we came over and i said hey i'm over here. i want to call up chairman kim, and we got to meet, and stepping across that line was a great honor. a lot of progress has been made. maria: joining me right now on the telephone house minority leader and california congressman kevin mccarthy to react. great to see you. thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me, maria. what a historical night while america slept, president trump made history. the first president to take a step into north korea. the h

korea, as well as north korea and south korea. but a lot depends on how kim jong-un responds to this overture from the president. gordon, any way to handicap what kim is likely to do here? >> i think the more important thing jon is what president trump is willing to do, we have overwhelming leverage not just over the north koreans out befr other parties to this, russians chinese south koreans for various reasons we don't exercise that leverage. and there is o some good reasons some bad reasons why we don't do that continental this is an issue where united states, can determine outcomes, short of the use of force. so i think, kim has been very successful, in playing you go a weak hand also a very incident dull je-- induljebt, i think president trump can make life very, very difficult for kim kill this is the pattern that the united states has had with china, in the 2017 president trump's first year in office, he was extraordinarily generous to xi jinping chinese ruler gave him a lot of free passes when chinese did not reciprocate p

prisoners held by north korea. it's a practice that north korea has repeated many times. and of course, under trump's leadership, one of those american prisoners came home brain damaged and later died. this is the nature of the leader and dictatorship and the regime that president trump is meeting with right now. he calls it an honor to meet with him. he calls it an excellent relationship, but we cannot forget the nature of that government, that regime as we watch these moments unfold here. i want to go back to comments just moments ago when president trump and kim, together, spoke to reporters, gathered there at the border, shortly after kim came across the border to the south. have a listen. >> chairman kim, how do you feel? >> she's good, she's good. [ speaking in korean ] >> translator: president trump has just walked across the demarcation line. that made him the first u.s. president to visit our country. [ speaking in korean ] >> translator: i believe, just looking at this action, this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate all the unfortunate past and ope

walks into north korea. who knows how many barrels of guns are pointed at anymore that direction. this is all high stakes, it's all unprecedented, it's all high risk, and you're right, he's willing to put himself out there to create a disruptive moment that the sort of regular order of business would have never created. of. jedediah: that's exactly right. we're going to bring in daniel hoffman, fox news contributor, former cia station chief, served in moscow, iraq and pakistan, to react to this. how you doing today? >> great. jedediah: what do you make of this meeting between president trump and kim jong un? >> you know, we've been saying the president didn't have a script, i actually think he did. he might not have shared it publicly, but i think he did have an idea about how he wanted this to go. he said at first it might be a hand shake, but i -- hand shake, but i think he was giving kim jong un the opportunity to make it something more like that, and the president took advantage of it. the negotiation to

lee had been working with closely to halt north korea's north korea program. on trade the only point of potential contention on the visit washington was still not moving to rat few a pretrade agreement. mr.obama wanted to get it done, acknowledged, there is obviously a concern in the united states of the incredible trade imbalances that have grown in the past few years. a little bit of past is pro logged. let's look back, that was 200ed this is then. had you responsibility over the broad swath of every facet of the relationship. you're now deeply in the middle of this, where are we on these key issues? where have we come in the last 10 years, where are we today. >> mark, thank you very much. where did we come, we are going down memory lane, i am going back further. i want to say congratulations, and corey foundation for this extraordinary collaboration over the last 10 years. praise to victor, well deserved. i noticed in the photographs what has happened over 10 years, you have a few women here and working in korea. it's going to deepen our expertise and dialo

official records of bombing raids over north korea held in the u.s. national archives one way to clear up the confusion about kenneth enoch's confession and subsequent retraction would be to examine the flight logs for his missions over korea. but they were removed from the files by the u.s. air force on march the 23rd 19522 months after he was captured and one week before he made his written confession. and after the war the u.s. military imposed a top secret classification on all documents relating to biological warfare in the far east. many of the flight records for korea have never been released. you saw you know the danger. it is never come up with a lot going on in a committee someone you. wish is used in the. old order new car i know a lot of fun out there it's the helmet if you use a sage brush that developed in the last. pull not nicholas until now they go and he's headed to the court and i says no juanita just look around. washington remembers the korean war very differently to pyongyang. the united states still on as its military men and wo

towards north korea. at the time i tried to convey a message to my american friends that the window of dialogue should be kept open to north korea while maintaining our basic partition. i believe that the pressure without dialogue was unlikely to change north korea's behavior. in september 2017, the rok u.s. strategic forum was held during an exceptionally dramatic moment. only two days before the scheduled date of our forum, north korea tested their sixth nuclear weapon, which they claimed was hydrogen bomb. it was too early for us to ensure felt tested nuclear weapon really a hydrogen bomb or really if the test had been successful. the current delegation tried to deliver a message that peace should be the top priority in any case and that it was time for the u.s. and rok to seriously engage north korea to stop their provocation, but for the trump administration, was still an option, and tensions between the u.s. and north korea escalated until the winter olympic games in february of the following year.

it's a focused on north korea's nuclear capabilities. if that is the yardstick, there has been some progress. but no, we had a very long way to go but if you look but this isa way to go but if you look but this is a fundamental transformation in the relationship between the usa and north korea. then it is historic, when the us president goes to the dmz, instead of staring through binoculars, he says, hey, let's get together at least sha ke binoculars, he says, hey, let's get together at least shake hands and continues process. sometimes we are to dismissive of symbolism. that's what politics is and what they are trying to do is change the political relationship between the two countries. he was asked if he would ta ke countries. he was asked if he would take a step into north korea and he said, why not? at the same time, if he really does that, he would become the first sitting us president to do so. the first sitting us president to do so. that's right. this is when a highly unconventional approach of president trump actually can do som

korea, you said on north korea there's no way -- north korea and iran -- there's no way to exercise maximum pressure particularly in north korea without buy-in. you followed xi ginpijinping's . >> i think north korea is playing a long game, going to be building n ining infrastructure to include north korea in all these things. i did something that's very dangerous for an kdic academic in 2017-2018. i praised the trump administrati administration. i think they did a very good job of getting kim jong-un to the table in singapore. but i felt, you know, i said they had to do two things to get china to pressure north korea to get to the table and two things at once which are kind of opposite. president trump had unique capabilities. they had to credibly threaten the conflict and i think a lot of us were very concerned there was going to be a conflict in late 2017 on the korean peninsula. and at the same time, they had to convey that they didn't care about the north korean regime and weren't going to try to seek to overthrow it. and it's very difficult to do those two things at once. and

china's president xi jinping arrives in north korea and is greeted by cheering crowds which ties down strains between the 2 nations she adored korea's kim jong un will take up the stalled talks on the doorstep deeply resent that. add to the woman's world cup in france scotland on their way home after a rash and bird against argentina has got to look certain to win until their opponents mounted a rolex and controversial comeback. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program we begin in brussels where a huge leaders are meeting at this moment to discuss who should fill the blocks top job that's following last month's european parliamentary elections the most prestigious position up for grabs is the european. commission president a post currently has held by john crow dunker there's still no consensus on who should replace younger and the issue has created friction between the 2 leading nations france and germany. well let's take a look now at the top 3 candidates german chancellor angela merkel is back in conservative man for very of the center right european peoples party but it's unclear if

north korea is a lot safer. it's good for both. and it's really may be just as important it's good for the world. so we are very proud for what we have done. anai have plenty of time. and we are in no rush —— and i have. and we are in no rush —— and i have. and it is a lot different than it was two and a half years ago. it is a difference like few people could imagine. so it is an honour to have helped. it's a great country. they wa nt helped. it's a great country. they want to think again president moon and, really, we are very proud of all of the things we have done together. and both of the military and peace, but also on trade and other things. the relationship has never been stronger. thank you very much. we have been watching a meeting between donald trump, the us president, and moonjae—in, the south korean president. they have been sitting down talking to the media, delivering statements before they are due to go to the demilitarised zone. present from's first trip there. he has had a little bit

there's no word yet from north korea on whether kim will show up. they did get an invitation and it is an interesting discussion. president trump told reporters he would not mind making history on the dmz for another reason. >> if you met kim, would you step across the border into north korea? >> sure, i would. i would feel comfortable doing that. i would have no problem. >> cnn's abby phillip is in seoul, sukouth korea. this will be a visit everyone has made or a shocking visit for the ages.

in essence, to stop talking about north korea and start talking to north korea. now, maybe it was done for reasons of domestic politics, of personal vanity, maybe he's determined and i think he is to look at north korea as a signature issue of his presidency. it is his ticket into the history books. it is his ticket to a nobel. it is a way to separate himself in such a fundamental way from all of thinks departures, 30 years, administrations and presidents have tried everything. sanctions, cooperation with our military allies. and on two occasions in 1994 and 2003, serious diplomacy in which north korea committed itself to denuclearization and yet we find ourselves in 2018 with chairman kim basically saying his nuclear program was complete. he has ballistic missiles that can hit the continental united states. and anywhere from 15 to 60 deliverable nuclear weapons. so i think this is a critical signature item in the president's diplomacy. and it may well be that there is a window that kim, in fact, senses, that trump going into an election campaign, there is an opp