north koreans are only allowed to have a diet of propaganda from the regime itself. so the best weapon that can be used against such a regime is information. >> thor invited her to join him and a group of volunteers to join him on the border of south korea. they sent balloons and flash drives across hoping they'd land in the right hands. >> these campaigns matter you think? >> definitely it matters. >> the balloons and the leaflets? >> yes. empower them so they can demand their freedom. they have to fight for their freedom. >> she hopes somewhere in north korea another little girl is watching a love story and freeing her mind. next we hear from another young mother, a south korean friend of mine about what life is like here in seoul. don't we need that cable box to watch tv? nope. don't we need to run? nope. it just explodes in a high pitched 'yeahhh.' yeahhh! try directv now for $10 a month for 3 months. no satellite needed. if these packs have the same number of bladder leak pads, i bet you think bigger is better. actually, it's bulkier. always discreet quickly tur

but i stare at north korean missile propaganda all the time. when i saw this scene, i knew there was something funny going on. that's a really famous video from 2014. >> obviously, the north koreans manipulated the video to make a failure look like a giant success. but some of the changes are more, well, cosmetic. >> if we look at it in the noise filter, it's bright red. his ear is red. they always change his ear for some reason. we don't know why. >> they change his ear? >> yeah, i don't think he likes his ears. >> they shrink them? >> i think his ears are perfect but they shrink them. it doesn't matter except for it's kind of fun. >> in korean the missile's name hwasong means mars, as in the god of war. lewis watched them grow more powerful with each generation. he worries that war is coming for all the wrong reasons. >> why are you doing this? isn't this duplicating the work that is already in the intelligence community? >> you know, i lived through the leadup to the iraq war and there was a lot of intelligence information that turned out to

that gives the north korean leader and the north koreans some legitimacy. the north koreans have told us for years the next time they meet with the united states they will be coming to the table as a nuclear weapon state and that is the status that they will bring to the table if and when this meeting occurred. that's mistake number one. i would also suggest that the president and his staff have violated what i like to call the rule number one of presidential summit ri, you don't engage the president of the united states in a summit unless the president and his adversary both understand what the summit is going to produce, what the outcome is, and i'd say a third mistake, quite frankly, is that the president is convinced or has been convinced that the north koreans have committed themselves to denuclearization. they've done no such thing and so far there has not been not a single utterance by the north korean leader or the north korean media about denuclearization or any commitment to that. no public reference to that at all. we should be concerned about th

engaging with north koreans. i think the way forward for us is going to be challenging vis-À-vis not south korea, but i also think japan. i think abe's interest may be deferred chance in this space politically at home, but also there was a little bit of surprise factor when it came to the japanese in terms of the rollout of the summit and how it was excepted. i think south korea is going to be essential that we are in lockstep. that's going to take a lot of behind the scenes diplomacy and especially with prime minister abe is keeping japan is going to also be very challenging a thing. >> you mentioned you were just talking to some japanese friends and that's obviously another player here that sometimes people are forgetting a little bit and prime minister abe and trump have searched a full speed ahead and they seem to have surprised some folks. how do you think the japanese are reacting and how they plan this going forward? >> i think the japanese are anxious and i think the fulcrum of diplomacy is not involving

the north korean have all was wanted a us president to visit north korea. it is a thing that the north koreans have tried since the clinton administration. there is also a movie which ends with a president, president making a visit. it is interesting that people call this a breakthrough. the north korean have been asking for 25 years and it is a huge propaganda scoop for them. you could see it as an american president compelled by north korea's missile and nuclear programme to treat north korea as an equal? that is exactly how that north korean movie ends. i am a strong supporter of engaging dramatically with the north korea but this is the highest value concession that the us has to make set to play it at the beginning with no concrete promises of anything, as an explorer treat mission, it is an orthodox, i will say that. what are the risks and possible rewards? well, the possible reward is that i do not think north korea will give up do not think north korea will give up its nuclear weapons but perhaps it was a fundamentally different relationship with th

approach when it comes to engaging the north koreans. right to be fair to the administration they undertook a very comprehensive policy review when they came into office of the first one before the iran review and so on and they developed a wide range of possible options from the one hand they consider just accepting a north korean nuclear program so you have a mutual the term relationship such as we have with russia on the side that was unacceptable a previous ministrations the other extreme various first uses of military force either an all or invasion or we've heard recently about this single strike to try and intimidate them they reviewed possibly assassinating the north korean side so they went through the entire gamut and considered all the options and basically could decided to focus on diplomacy trying to work with the chinese and other countries to induce a change in your screen saver and sanctions to try and put pressure on the north korean government as well as and key to its ability to build up its import them carol and techn

north koreans are agreed to discuss denuclearization. are any of those concessions, in quotation marks, major from the north? >> it's all promising. we should all be prapproaching this with a sense of hope and optimism. i will point out the key issue is the denuclearization. the rest of it the north koreans have in the past dealt with. we don't have any confirmation from the north koreans that this is, in fact, true. we are hoping that the south korean characterization of this is correct. it's important to point out the south koreans did not believe they had this locked down enough to propose it. what happened as our reporting pointed out is that the president decided to meet with the south korean national security adviser in prompt tu. he discovered in that meeting that one of the things kim jong-un said is i would like to meet with president trump at some point. he seized on that and said, all right, go in and announce it. it's not yet clear what the south koreans have said. it's important to point out that they have only said it with

approach when it comes to engaging the north koreans. right to be fair to the administration they undertook a very comprehensive policy review when they came into office of the first one before the iran review and so on and they devolve a wide range of possible options from the one hand they consider just accepting a north korean nuclear program so you have a mutual the term relationship such as we have with russia on the side that was unacceptable a previous ministrations the other extreme various first uses of military force either an all or invasion or we've heard recently about this single strike to try and intimidate them they reviewed possibly assassinating the north korean side so they went through the entire gamut and considered all the options and basically could decided to focus on diplomacy trying to work with the chinese and other countries to induce a change in your screen behavior and sanctions to try and put pressure on the north korean government as well as and key to its ability to build up its import them carol and tech

there's no credible military strategy for north korea, and the north koreans know that. the south koreans know that. most everybody including general mattis in our government knows that. but maybe donald trump doesn't know that. >> there was considerable slack in the sanctions regime that the trump administration has ratcheted up very usefully. i don't think the president should be talking to kim, but there's a case for talks just to demonstrate to the world and especially to the south koreans that you're willing to talk because it's very important to keep the south koreans on board. they have a natural tendency for all sorts of reasons to appease the north. so that would be the case for talking, and then if it comes to nothing, walking away and saying, look, at least we were willing to do it. >> there's nothing wrong with talking. it's just we need to have a strategy behind talking. we need to say, here is our strategy. here's how we're going to phase it in. here's how we're working with our allies and we're going to deploy this critical asset of the president of the un

koreans and head of the north korean delegation told me did. mr moon to provoke handle the situation and how what organisation to put them and to be united front we have a different view what propaganda propaganda don't be detracted don't be disturbed by to propaganda. it's almost like. you are outsiders it's even harder to distinguish between propaganda and policy reliable information about the kim dynasty which has ruled north korea for three generations now is also hard to come by. the current leader kim jong un has seen more of the outside world than one might imagine. we are heading to a suburb of burn in switzerland to meet a teacher. in the late ninety's there was a north korean boy in his seventh grade class. it was said he was the son of somebody who worked at the embassy. is to stand. he was introduced as own pocket for me he was just a regular boy he spoke a german we were able to communicate like sporty clothes basketball attire n.b.a. gear bosc and i think he was one of the first people i knew who had an m p three player. a small i

president is preparing for these talks with the north korean leader. he seems to prepared for it by shaking up the united states top officials who are in charge of foreign policy to bring in people who are more ideologically aligned with president from for example we've just seen john bolton a super war hawk an advocate of military strikes on north korea named national security advisor that's going to send a very alarming message not just to the world but to north korea especially and they'll also be watching what he does in other areas of foreign policy like when it comes to the iran deal they're going to be waiting to see whether the u.s. is good for its word when it comes to negotiating long term international agreements our correspondent in washington clear richardson on the story for us tonight clear thank you very much. well funerals have taken place in siberia for victims of the weekend shopping mall fire rush observed a day of mourning but the heartache was mixed with anger many people believe the authorities are trying to cover up lax safety s

today discussions of north koreans i lived and worked in north korea for two years all over the country not so different settings in farms and hospitals and . clinics and. talked to lots and lots of different people it was never raised once as an issue with me not even in passing where some other issues were race of course things like the fact that there were so many men killed in the one nine hundred fifty s. in the war that there were disproportionate amounts of women left alive today for a brief moment there was a slight bit of deescalation but obviously the tension is still there how do you see things playing out on the korean peninsula well there are different objectives the north koreans want to preserve regime security which for them means both territorial defense proper vention of milledge intervention from the outside but also security for the current government and for those in power it saw what happened in iraq to saddam hussein and in libya to gadhafi and their argument is that if those countries had maintained nuclear weapons program or similar sorts of programs they wouldn

kimjong—il went north korean leader visits china. kim jong—il went before he north korean leader visits china. kimjong—il went before he died in 2011. the media reports followed this same template. the train went to china, it came back, and only then did official chinese and north korean media start releasing details about the meeting. chad how significant is this meeting between xijinping and kimjong—un before an historic gathering between donald trump and kimjong—un historic gathering between donald trump and kim jong—un this coming may? it is significant for a number of reasons, first of all it is kim jong—un‘s first official leading with any other leader. it is also his first trip overseas since becoming leader of north korea. there is talk he has been very concerned about travel. which might be why he was in this armoured train. and coming so soon ahead of to big summits with president moon and president trump, it suggests this may have been hastily put together to get endorsement from what is, at the end of the da

citizens are still being held by the north korean regime. the family of professor tony kim says, seeking his release, should be a top priority. >> other said itting u.s. presidents have decided against meeting with north korean leaders and giving them the reward of legitimacy that goes with that without getting concessions first. >> kim jong-un he seems to want to project himself as this, bold leaders of a normal peace loving nuclear power. so this upcoming summit, gives him a good pr opportunity to, to portray that image. >> she knows more than most about the north korean regime. because the she lived under its rule. she escaped and defected to the south and owns this successful restaurant in seoul. >> to trust kim jong-un's reme, idiot she told us. >> president trump pride himself on being a deal-maker. but a meeting with north korea's leered is a high risk strategy. holly williams, cbs news, seoul. >>> today, china's parliament officially ended presidential term limits. it clears the way for president xi ping to rule possibly for life. xi

by the north koreans by the south koreans there were many many people killed and many many orphans and many maimed so the whole of the war full remains controversial but sickly for north koreans and for south koreans because they've still got family members that are split so it's not fifty three once when the war ended there's been no communication between the two sides so the issues about. alleged germ warfare a part and parcel of the discourse which takes place in north korea this is a controversial topic at the time in the one nine hundred fifty s. remains controversial now there's still no smoking gun evidence this to took place but it forms part of the official discourse it doesn't however form part of the day to day discussions of north koreans i lived and worked in north korea for two years all over the country not so different settings in farms and hospitals and . clinics and. talked to lots and lots of different people it was never raised once as an issue with me not even in passing where some other issues were race of course things like the fact that there were so many men ki

president to meet with a north korean leader. >> i think north korea is going to go very well. they promised they wouldn't be shooting off missiles in the meantime, as they look to denuke. >> brennan: question spite is diplomatic coup for president trump skeptics are concerned it will end up being a propaganda's victory for kim's rogue regime. >> we will talk to mike pompeo about the risks, the conditions of the summit and the state of north korea's nuclear program, the gamble and some concessions on part of the president toward u.s. allies cool the potential international trade war. >> a lot of steel mills are now opening up because of what i did, steel is back and aluminum is back. >> brennan: but some republicans in congress fear the tariffs will hurt american manufacturers and farmers and vows to fight the president we will talk to cory gardner and get his reaction to the news on north korea. >> cbs news correspondent holly williams will report from south korea about the silence from kim jong-un since the -- since the announcement in washington. we will discuss the developi

meet face-to-face with the north korean leader. this comes after three generations of the kim family to give up their nuclear weapons. daniel henninger is a fox news contributor. dan, if i could have you take a look at this collection of quotes that we picked up. this is a few of them. watch. >> let me talk about north korea. it is naive and dangerous to take a policy that he she guested the other day, bilateral relations with north korea. >> the notion to not talking to countries is punishment to them, which has been the guiding depp pillowmatic principle of this administration is ridiculous. >> i don't want to be used for propaganda purposes. i don't want to make a situation worse. >> madeline albright said in "the new york times," i held two days of talks in which kim jung il appeared to accept more restraints on the missile program. obviously if this were easy to resolved, it would have been settled long ago. north korea thinks they need nuclear weapons to continue their survival. now he has those weapons. if the talks go throu

nuclear standoff president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il and agreed to hold the first ever u.s. north korea summit john yang offers to put its nuclear program on the negotiating table if don't wait conditions are met also on the show not backing down president trump moves ahead with tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum going it alone he says he's stopping an assault on the u.s. in a move that experts warn could trigger a trade war and germany social democrats announce who's getting tapos in chance on america's new coalition government came on them a foreign minister a largely untested on the international stage. thanks very much for your company everyone world leaders have been responding to that surprise move the prospect of a summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un now they could lead to a potential breakthrough in the nuclear standoff with north korea german chancellor angela merkel reacted a short while ago cautiously welcoming this a potentially historic development here is what she said. this is my smile colas a glimmer of

nuclear standoff president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un agreed to hold the first ever u.s. north korea summit jonghyun offers to put its nuclear program on the negotiating table if the right conditions are met also on the show germany's a social democrats announce who's getting tapos in chance on america's new coalition government came on them a foreign minister who largely untested on the international stage and despite international condemnation president trump moves ahead with tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum he says he's stopping an assault on the us but does he risk triggering a trade war we'll hear more of our business team. way of iraq thanks for your company everyone. world leaders are reacting to the shocking news that u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un will meet for talks chinese president xi jinping called washington to emphasize the need for careful diplomacy u.s. vice president mike pence meanwhile set the talks were a sign that sanctions on pyongyang were bearing fruit but the heavy lifting was done by south korea wh

korean leader kimjong invitation of north korean leader kim jong want to meet, invitation of north korean leader kimjong want to meet, and invitation of north korean leader kim jong want to meet, and secondly, the white house has also made an announcement that all the sanctions against north korea remain. yes, let's pick up on some of those points because sarah sanders, the white house spokesperson said that the president greatly appreciate the nice words of the south korean delegation. let's cross back to our correspondence. you delegation. let's cross back to our correspondence. you were delegation. let's cross back to our correspondence. you were the white house corresponded just recently, you will appreciate the comments of donald trump recently on how he appreciates the nice words. he would be potentially the first sitting us president to meet someone from north korea. this is history in the making. it is history in the making but i think one of the things we do need to know is put a foot on the break a little bit. as we have heard from some of the analysts, i am glad i'm not the onl

today discussions of north koreans i lived and worked in north korea for two years all over the country not so different settings in farms and hospitals and . clinics and. talked to lots and lots of different people it was never raised once as an issue with me not even in passing where some other issues were raised of course things like the fact that there were so many men killed in the one nine hundred fifty s. in the war that there were disproportionate amounts of women left alive today for a brief moment there is a slight deescalation but obviously the tension is still there how do you see things playing out on the korean peninsula well there are different objectives the north koreans want to preserve regime security which for them means both territorial defense proper vention of military intervention from the outside but also security for the current government and for those in power it saw what happened in iraq to saddam hussein and in libya to gadhafi and their argument is that if those countries had maintained nuclear weapons program or similar sorts of programs they wouldn't hav

by the north koreans by the south koreans there were many many people killed and many many orphans and many maimed so the whole of the war full remains controversial but sickly for north koreans and for south koreans because they've still got family members that have split since not fifty three once when the war ended there's been no communication between the two sides so the issues about. alleged germ warfare a part and parcel of the discourse which takes place in north korea this is a controversial topic at the time in the one nine hundred fifty s. remains controversial now there's still no smoking gun evidence this to took place but it forms part of the official discourse it doesn't however form part of the day to day discussions of north koreans i lived and worked in north korea for two years all over the country not so different settings in farms and hospitals and . clinics and. talked to lots and lots of different people it was never raised once as an issue with me not even in passing where some other issues were race of course things like the fact that there were so many men kil

koreans don't tell us a great deal in the north koreans don't give us proper trade statistics but there's a fair amount of anecdotal evidence flowing out of northeastern china and north korea to suggest that the sanctions begin to bite and we have heard the north korean media talking about sanctions and sanctions relief more and more if only to say you know that we don't need it and stuff like that but the fact we're talking about it is suggested. i think from here the issue is that north koreans now have these weapons and they feel like they can negotiate right they've probably got the ability to strike the united states so why not now that you have it one and see what you can get in indeed i mean how important is this meeting or has this meeting been between china and north korea in terms of trying to reassert its position as a major influence over pyongyang and the full senate in direct message to the u.s. . yeah i think that's right i think that the chinese are the day you know in the last three or four months of all this diplomacy in the olympics and the rest the chinese have been so

north korean leader kim jong un. this all happening late tonight, crowding out news of those heavy tariffs on steel and aluminum imports as promised. that happened just a few hours earlier. tonight, beijing said it firmly opposes those measures but isn't getting any concrete indication what, if anything, it might do in response. we've got team coverage for all of the breaking news here, covering reaction, tariffs to wall street, jennifer griffin monitoring of the pentagon reaction to north korea. we began with leland vittert at the white house. good evening, leland. >> good evening, shannon, a long way to go from today's announcement to a potential historic handshake between president trump and kim jong un. do white house officials today speaking after the announcement saying they don't know when, they don't know where, and they don't know exactly how such a meeting would play out. some experts outside of the administration say the most likely place is the freedom house on the dmz. president trump tried to visit the

he must curtail the north koreans nuclear program. north korea is believed between 20 and 60 nuclear weapons. that's enough. they don't need more. >> let me stop you there. what can washington put on the table? i circle back to the first question, what can they put on the table to incentivize kim jong-un to get rid of missiles that hit the u.s.? that's his leverage. >> there are two things he can do. trump is offer him security guarantees. offer north korean security guarantees where the united states will promise not to recognize them as nuclear power and will not attack. secondly, ease off the sanctions. timing is clear. it is difficult here. those are the key things that president trump can offer. those are the things -- >> again, this is what i don't understand. security guarantees. is that really enough? i mean, would the north koreans accept a piece of paper and promise the u.s. is not going to attack? >> well, they won't accept that. >> what else can they do? >> when the united states gives a promise that it will not attack a c

of a tokyo high school aligned to the north korean regime. i always have this fear that of people's freedom and movement will be restricted and. right now. many of these school children are descendants of koreans brought here as prisoners or slave labor during world war two. when korea's subleasing too many in japan's korean community pledged allegiance to the north. as a result their schools and businesses have always been viewed with suspicion. or. whenever there's an excuse the police use all sorts of nonsensical reasons to come in search of schools in raids welfare for. voting for him and if we go to all our community may face a soviet crisis i. am. not. under the watchful eyes of north korea's latest students here learn in both korean and japanese every year the regime gives two million dollars to a network of kinda got schools and universities across japan and it's. mother the most important thing we teach the students is that they can contribute to reunite korea for one more grandmother or so but you're not the. program or here in our

approach when it comes to engaging the north koreans. right to be fair to the administration they undertook a very comprehensive policy review when they came into office of the first one before the iran review and so on and they developed a wide range of possible options from the one hand they consider just accepting a north korean nuclear program so you have a mutual term relationship such as we have with russia on the side that was unacceptable a previous ministrations the other extreme various first uses of military force either an all or invasion or we've heard recently about this single strike to try and intimidate them they reviewed possibly assassinating the north koreans and so they went through the entire gamut and considered all the options and basically could decided to focus on diplomacy trying to work with the chinese and other countries to induce a change in your screen saver and sanctions to try and put pressure on the north korean government as well as and key to its ability to build up its import them carol and technolog

koreans but also other parties to this conflict but the north koreans do not have a reputation of being particularly feeble minded in fact i think they have a reputation of being very tough negotiators and trying to get as much as possible for as little as possible and yet all of a sudden they show this openness for one sided concessions agreeing to suspend military and ballistic tests while north asking the americans to suspend their military exercises is that a measure of how frightened they are or perhaps a calculation on their part that they may get more in return later on bourse. bridges sure that in the long run as the north koreans the smart americans. because you know i've been studying the history and this is you see. history of how well. and his father and the special his grandfather many people ate it changes russians solsbury of americans jeff aeneas and they always vo vigorous but right now they are still frightened because i mentioned your sentients is there yet to produce impact but in your time situation is likely to deteriorate and of course the dorms want to be shot at

the north korean leader was educated abroad. he has been abroad before. yes. in terms of his education, as you mention, he was at a swiss boarding school. but since assuming power in 2011, this is the first time that kim jong—un has left north korea. so from that lens, this isa north korea. so from that lens, this is a historic meeting. and in terms of what just talk less, this is a historic meeting. and in terms of whatjust talk less, this is something we are all piecing together in terms of its significance. but we had to keep in mind that when the chinese meet with an official in this capacity, it is an official in this capacity, it is a done deal. in several ready taken place in terms of that kind of transaction. that is a part of the broader — looking at how this all played out, this is what we are basically wherein free—fall right now, it is taken by air on —— has taken thereon by surprise. but given the summit that is coming up between president donald trump, moonjae—in, and kim jong il, president donald trump, moonjae—in, and kimjong il,

he said we're ready to talk to north koreans. meet with north koreans without precondition. if they want to talk about the shape of the table, if that's what turns them on, we can do that. if they want to talk about the weather, we'll do that. we need to do a road map. >> does that make sense? does it make sense to give the north koreans what the north koreans have always wanted and that is a meeting with the most powerful country in the world. >> if you keep the military pressure on, if you keep the sanctions pressure on, why not. and so -- and i think they also have done talks with the chinese. they said to the chinese, if we have to cross and tillerson told us this in december, if we have to cross into north korea, we will return though the 38th parallel because we have no design to north korea. rex tillerson passed them a note saying we're not going to go for regime change. we're not going to go for regime collapse. we're not going cross in and use this as an excuse to get troops in. a lot taking place behind the scenes. all that was a surprise really was how it happened

peninsula, maybe that has focused minds that the north koreans. but we just don't know. and as you rightly point out, part of the north korean playbook here is to create division between the us and south korea, and frankly, south korea and president moon, who has played this very skilfully, in my view, they are really the ones who are taking a leadership role here. but there is the question, has the us become irrelevant? and you know, that could be a good thing. but until we know what north korea's intentions are, that is to say, are they serious or is this tactical, meant to undermine sanctions, undermine the us — south korean relationship, we don't know. but i do think, again, i am always in favour of talking. hold your friends close, your enemies closer. if for only the reason that it reduces the chance that people sort of stumble into war. so again, i welcome that. but i do think we have two... we have to handle this carefully, because the north koreans may... they say they are going to denuclearise, but the question is, under what condition

citizens are still being held by the north korean regime. the family of professor tony kim ofs seeking his release should be a top priority. other sitting u.s. presidents have decided against meeting deth north korean leaders and giving them the reward of legitimacy that goes with that. without getting concessions from them first. kim jong-un he seems to want to project himself as this bold leader of a normal, peace-loving nuclear power. so this upcoming summit gives him a good p.r. opportunity to orturay that image. aeran lee knows more than most about the north korean regime because she lived under it's rule. vee escaped and defected to the south. and now owns a this successful restaurant in seoul. to trust kim jong-un's regime anu would have to be an idiot, she told us. resident trump prides himself on being a deal maker. but a meeting with north korea's aader is a high-risk strategy. holly williams, cbs news, seoul. >> quijano: today, china's parliament officially ended presidential term limits. it clears the way for president xi jinping

the north koreans will be very demanding. david: i was about to say, based on your negotiations with them in the past, do you think they will allow transparency and access to their nuclear arsenal, to appease both the u.s. and their allies? i think in the original negotiation i was involved in in 1990's, we did achieve a freeze. at that stage, the most advanced part of their nuclear program, plutonium-based program. that lasted eight years. it was verified through the international atomic agency. american and other bilateral monitors. we have done that once. the north koreans did cheat on that program. they began developing a nuclear program based on uranium enrichment's. -- enrichments. and reigns need to be more aims needive. -- our to be more comprehensive. during this period when we have not had talks, things have only gotten worse. let's start with of the freeze, -- let's start with the freeze, and go beyond to achieve the objective, which is complete underearization international monitoring. david: in 30 seconds or so,

between the south koreans and the north koreans as interesting. understatement, perhaps, of the day. >> a leader of the south korean delegation will be making the delegati declaration. he was among those that met with kim jong-un, the north korean leader. jim acosta, thanks very much. there's more breaking news right now involving stormy daniels' legal battle against the president and his lawyer. let's go to our senior investigative correspondent, drew griffin, who is working this part of the story for us. drew, you've been poring over all the doumcument, all the conflicting statements. what have you found? >> reporter: the news comes from that nondisclosure agreement, wolf, that stormy daniels and michael cohen signed. stormy daniels said she told four people about her alleged affair with donald trump. one of them is a woman named angel ryan. angel ryan is a porn actress herself. in october of 2016, she came forward in a news conference and described an unwanted sexual advance by donald trump that she says took place at that very same golf tourna

president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong il and here's what she said . this is my hopeful smile colas a glimmer of hope it needs work because of course really seeing a deescalation would be wonderful because for all of us the nuclearization of north korea has been a grave concern. in. so that was chancellor angela merkel of germany no other key players in the north korean nuclear crisis have also weighed in china urged the two countries to find a political solution russia court the fullest ever plans talks between the leaders of the u.s. and north korea a step in the right direction and it was south korea that dippy has to have convinced trump and kim to soften their war of words and embrace diplomacy. this is the man doing the running between p.r. nyang and washington d.c. and he's failing reached a major milestone. by poor president president thought that no meeting north korea kim jong un. is committed to. kim pledged that north korea really do train from any for the nuclear. tests but he stressed this that even if the new president from that's on as

and north korean leaders. alonzo raman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in there are also coming up in control of northern syrian town of a freend turkish forces prepared to move east towards monday each. also council and politicians prepare for a new confrontation with the traders the region's former leaders remain in custody in germany. and australia's disgraced cricketers steve smith and david warner are banned from playing for twelve months for their part in the ball tampering scandal . welcome to the program north korea's leader has met china's president on his first foreign trip since taking power seven years ago kim jong un's secretive meeting for the first time we've xi jinping was revealed after it happened chinese state media reports kim saying that he's open to giving up his nuclear program his all china correspondent adrian brown with the latest from beijing. and so he was here after a. chinese state controlled media waited until kim jong un was back home before confirming what

the north koreans have done this before. they've done this and offered talks and concessions and nothing happened and more important than that, the nuclear program kept on going at full steam ahead. be very, very careful. china, meanwhile, they're saying that dialogue is what they always wanted to see. but, again, a long, long road, christine. >> andrew stevens for us this morning in seoul. thank you, andrew. >>> let's go live to washington and bring in retired colonel cedric layton. good morning to you, sir. we talk a lot about fire and fury to face to face. that was a year ago, though. in recent weeks, though, there was talk of a military strike on north korea. there was reports that the north koreans were selling chemical weapons to syria to finance their nuclear program. how did we go from there in recent weeks to where we are now, a face-to-face meeting. the first ever between a korean president and a north korean leader. >> really because we have donald trump in the white house. in this case what you're seeing is someo

he put an enormous global allied supported pressure campaign on the north koreans, that has had a real impact on the regime, on the north korean economy, and has caused kim jong-un to reach out and say he wants to begin to have discussions on terms that the united states has never achieved before. that is where we find ourselves today and we are going to work hard to make sure that we get what it is the president has set out very clearly for his entire time in office, which is the complete verifiable irreversible denuclearization of north korea. >> brennan: are we in direct contact with north korea? >> i think secretary tillerson said there are channels open. >> brennan: but we haven't heard back whether kim will accept what the president has said is his willingness to meet as soon as may? >> i don't want to get into the conversations that may or may not be taking place, the president has indicated he is prepared to go have an initial discussion on this incredibly important topic and we are preparing for that time. >> brennan: now, the president accepted this invitation fairly quickly

understand -- to real north korean experts. we are all students of north korea, trying to understand what is happening. we should start a pool today. is kim jong-un in beijing or not? interesting to see if he is and what comes about. if he is in beijing, it makes logical sense from the chinese and north korean perspective. no one would want the first meeting with a head of state to be president trump. he will meet with president moon, first. that is a special case, the first outsider from the korean peninsula in the region being president trump would be historic. it would put china in a difficult position. both china and north korea, from both are perspectives, -- their perspectives, it makes sense both meet to discuss the way ahead. s china'sun need backing and china does not want to be left out in the cold. possible there is a meeting that takes place. the big thing is the meeting. day, i don'tl this think north korea has really acknowledged they have made the offer to president trump. allusions been some to the condition of

i don't trust the north koreans. i think these people are likely to renege the way they have for years and years but you cannot fault donald trump for trying to ratchet down nuclear tensions. we sat here night after night worried about missile tests and a nuclear war and the president is trying to protect the american people. i wouldn't pooh-pooh it. >> joe, do you give the president credit for trying something radical? >> i mean, look, i think everybody's got to be hoping that this turns out better than a lot of us think it might turn out. but it's kind of like two guys who have been mailing bomb threats to each other now actually getting some positive stuff because they're meeting to discuss not bombing each other. i mean that's literally what's been going on. >>> we're going to take a quick break. more on this surprising news about north korea. and later the latest in the ongoing drama surrounding the adult film star stormy daniels. new information her lawyer's sharing with us and what the next steps might be. all

korean side but maybe this could be something like the north koreans already have promised such as freezing another the nuclear missiles test or refraining from from any other provocation this could be one thing i could think of what does each side well from the other. well what the north korean side wants is very clear they want to be recognized officially by the international community as a legitimate and sovereign state they want have the garden t. of their regimes survival and they want to have a peace treaty with the us which is complete verifiable and irreversible in the exchange for what well they are. they are they want to have this safety the security and maybe the u.s. of course once wants to have the success this foreign policy success is in midterms elections at the end of the year so both have their motivation to go into these talks quite motivated when the news broke is quite interesting to see reactions china north korea's biggest and most important ally said it hopes that these these actually happened but clearly china was out of the loop u.s. secretary of state rex tillerso

approach when it comes to engaging the north koreans. right to be fair to the administration they undertook a very comprehensive policy review when they came into office of the first one before the iran review and so on and they develop a wide range of possible options from the one hand they consider just accepting a north korean nuclear program so you have a mutual term relationship such as we have with russia on the side that was unacceptable a previous ministrations the other extreme various first uses of military force either an all or invasion or we've heard recently about this single strike to try and intimidate them they reviewed possibly assassinating the north korean side so they went through the entire gamut and considered all the options and basically could decided to focus on diplomacy trying to work with the chinese and other countries to induce a change in your screen saver and sanctions to try and put pressure on the north korean government as well as and keep its ability to build up its import the material and technology

. meeting with the north korean leader, kimjong—un, may. let us listen to the announcement. good evening. today i had the privilege of briefing president trump on my recent visit to pyongyang, north korea. i would like to thank president trump, the vice president and his wonderful national security team, including my close friend, general mcmaster. i explained to president trump that his leadership and his maximum pressure policy, together with international solidarity brought us to this juncture. i expressed president moonjae—in‘s personal gratitude for president trump's leadership. i told president trump that in our meeting, of both korean leaders, kim jong—un said he is committed to denuclearisation. kim pledged that north korea will refrain from any further nuclear or missile tests. he understands that the routine joint military exercises between the republic of korea and the united states must continue. and he expressed his eagerness to meet president trump as soon as possible. president trump appreciated the briefing and said he

i think improvement in the north korea china relationship ahead of the into korean summit and u.s. north korea some much more we hope for in solving the problem in the korean peninsula such as denuclearization and establishment of peace there are conflicting reports about who is in control of the northern syrian city of tal afar turkish troops have been closing in on the area after taking the kurdish held enclave of a free ten days ago to his president time birder one has said his forces will continue to move east as far as beach to push out the y.p. g. fighters who he says are terrorists. a french peace officer killed in last week's supermarket see has been posthumously awarded the legion honor the country's highest accolade the talent colonel noble trump has hailed as how the hero after trading places with a female hostage at a supermarket inch rabb in the south of france last friday funerals are being held for some of the victims who died in a shopping center fire in the siberian city of kemah rovio on sunday flags have been flying at half mast across the country on a day of nat

north korean leader kim jong-un. it is a huge development. and the white house taking credit this morning. even as there are questions about how it went down who conceded more, and whether it is a good idea to begin with. kaitlan collins at the white house with the latest. kaitlan? >> we actually just got a brand-new statement from the vice president mike pence. i'll read that for you. he said north korea's desire to meet to discuss denuclearization while suspending all ballistic missile and nuclear testing is evidence that president trump's strategy to isolate the kim regime is working. now, john, let me give you a little bit of the behind the scenes how this all went down at white house yesterday. the president was initially not scheduled to even meet with the south korean delegation, who was here briefing the national security adviser on their talks with north korea and then he met with them, they extended the invitation from kim jong-un, the president seemed to accept essentially on the spot, and thought the news was just too good to not

or do you think that's not what the north koreans see as denuclearization? >> well, i think the north koreans would indeed look at this as a long, long process. kim jong-un himself has said he has no need for nuclear weapons as long as the security of his regime is guaranteed and there's no military threat. that's possible but it's going to take a long time to get there. in the meantime, one is going to have to manage the risks of how to get to that eventual goal. >> what do you make of kim jong-un having just gone to china. what do you think china is trying to say? this is kim's first trip abroad since being leader.my immediate was is he clever. he respond ed well to the south korean president moon jae-in. then he reaches out to president trump. and he reaches out to china. so to me, he's sort of lining up all the important players. so i've looked at this nuch more he has some support for china whatever is in his mind. >> what do you make of the report last month that says it's detecting activity again at the plutonium reactors. what do you make of that? th

that particularly frightened the north koreans. it did very much frighten the south koreans. and i think that fear is partly what pushed the south koreans to in diplomacy which has resulted in this north korean conversation. >> here the second respect, you say, second, excuse me trump's talks about military strikes may or may not have rattled north korea. but they certainly horrified south korea. the upshot was south korea's defendant diplomatic outreach to north korea leading to the north korean promise to suspend testing. >> yeah, i mean, bravo to south korea for pursuing in diplomacy. and if this is a diplomatic track that can get sides talking and working out a deal that's great. it's just very weird. and you know, kind of dangerous to have a president who does not brief well, who responds impettously. we've seen in washington he will go off track and suddenly assert something in meetings and his staff has to dial him back afterward. it's harder to do that to dial him back when you're conducting of an international negotiation.

threat of force so i think the south koreans and the north koreans kind of put their heads together and said well we need to come up with something otherwise we might all wind up having u.s. rockets landing and coming in where they're acting out of fear or seeing an opportunity much credit will go to south korea. special envoys went to pyongyang on a mission of hope bringing back a landmark agreement and seoul exploited its good fortune in hosting the winter olympics just when the world needed a path to peace it's still early days but this is being seen as a major diplomatic achievement for south korean president moon jay in building on the goodwill of the winter olympics two remarkable effect as the paralympics get underway south korea will be hoping these games continue to work their magic as it did in the winter olympics north korea is sending a team of paralympians sport and politics mixing it seems with the beneficial outcome at least they are dialing their stock into each other then you know i think sport played their part in no putting the door from then on it's up to the politic

that's not actually what north koreans think. his audience are the north koreans. >> also point out that china is not really interested in a unified korea centered toward the united states on their border nor they interested in huge instability with tens of thousands of refugees pouring into china. >> all this said you cannot fault the president for taking a meeting. i'm more concerned how the president will perform in the meeting. it's not just a matter of palace intrigue to pay attention to how haphazardly into this meeting today. it's another way how donald trump operating. he was sitting across the team with democrats and republicans welcoming them to the white house and he said he would be willing to get rid of due process. he put the assault reps ban on the table and reversed himself 24 hours later. this is a president who always eager to portray himself as a deal maker and alie key details. we have become used to taking donald trump seriously not literally. does he know to do that? >> maybe that's why it's going to become