-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. 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

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

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. 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 denuclearization 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 testing. beijing supports denuclearization of the korean peninsula and recently backed the raft of international sanctions against pyongyang. these talks aimed to

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.

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

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. with that context in mind when you see these reports about you know the mass execution and purging of 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 and 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 there very specifically at the end of it 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

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

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

see stories that talk about chinese frosh regime with north korea and north korea developing its nuclear missiles and increasing tensions with the us or japan or south korea we all major trading partners of china but ultimately even if that shrew we see that china does allow some sanctions violations to occur or they allow some small trade to occur even if china overtly says we're complying with the international or the u.n. sanctions regime we saw the recent visit if she jumping to china to north korea it still indicates that the bonds of friendship remain very deep and that are going to prioritize u.s. interests over their own u.s. interest or the korean interest when it comes to north south korea korean peninsula issues so the u.s. shouldn't be counting on china when it comes to north korea and i don't think donald trump really is and that's why we see donald trump meeting directly with kim jong un rather than relying on stage of being to reach a settlement for north south korea issues. how much movement has there be unrealistically on the issue of the process of denuclearization and

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

>> 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

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

he's gone to north korea. he was there not long ago putting a little bit of more pressure on the u.s. to make a visit like the one we're about to cena short while. this is all good news for north korea to have arguably the two superpowers in the world fighting for your attention. this is not the position that north korea was in a couple of years ago. >> i want to bring in victor cha former director of asian affairs and msnbc korean affairs analyst by phone. victor, thanks for being with us. as we discussed the many developments, shall we say, in the last hour or two through the announced confirmation of the president that he will be meeting with kim jong-un, albeit for a brief amount of time, what do you expect from this, victor? >> well, i don't really expect very much. best case scenario this is an effort to reset after the failure of the hanoi summit in february. but the worst case, more likely, that this is just a photo op that only further legitimizes the north korean leader and the fact that he holds nuc

special enjoy to north korea. he was a key player in reestablishing communications with pyongyang through the new york travel and then of course traveling to north carolina to help secure the release and ultimately secure the release of otto warmbier. and so thank you, joe, for all your service. i think joe is also a regular contributor to cnn, if i'm not mistaken. we will have a little face-off here. i think next to ambassador yen is dr. kim. he is a professor at hong kong university university of international studies. research on the rok alliance and the enter korean relationship on the peninsula. and he spent time prior to that as a visiting full bright scholar at george mason university. not far from where i grew up in northern virginia. so thank you, dr. kim. we have next of course another diplomat. joy yamamoto who last fall took over as the director of the korea desk at the state department. a job she assumed after serving as the minister for the u.s. embassy in seoul. joy is obviously very much involved i

of trust in north korea. so with these types of features in europe with the north korean peninsula to for those policymakers north korea has already signed those in the past and then thou weapons for national security and with the process moving forward but on this particular issue it doesn't change the behavior but to start with us and south korea and this is something that is the process with that approach that we have mentioned before between the different leaders and also something that is missing. between us and north korea. >> and the comparison with that nuclear is asian. and with that approach with that denuclearization. and with those creations. >> to talk about the process which is called to the process of the korean peninsula. we have two crisis on the korean peninsula and with the north korea program and then for the closure and then to organize this kind of effort with denuclearization. but in 2017 and with those capabilities. and for those who once again but then we realized it is totally differ

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

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

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

today north korea is the most impenetrable state on the planet. yet over the past 20 years professor morey musser taka a leading japanese academic has gradually won the confidence of peon young secretive rulers. hired by the i don't call us. shows how was i not only saigon on a cent per cent of the total of us so one of the 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 sta

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

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

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

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

south korea has its own relationship with north korea. the united states has lands for north korea. if they come together like that they could potentially move things further along the road than just a one-on-one meeting. even though it's only going to be less than 10 minutes. who knows. it could be two hours. he wants to cross the dmz. let's go over to peace house. what's interest being covering this white house is you just never know. we knew the president was going to the dmz. but even his closest aide didn't know he was going to send out that tweet i righting kim to come to the dmz. jon: we expect the news conference with president trump and moon jae-in to begin any moment now. we saw his daughter take her seat so it will start soon. as far as back as it go, it sometimes gets covered up but it take a back burner to the mystery of dealing with the north. >> the president talk about the economic miracle of south korea when he was here in november of 2017. i was standing in the same position watching the president address the sout -- the south kn parliament. he said look what's hap

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.

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,

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

united states and north korea right on their border. while it may seem like a conflict far away in washington, d.c., it is right on their doorstep. so they are relieved contact has been made. >> how do you measure the value of this meeting? >> it is positive, certainly, after four months of little to no contact between the north koreans and the americans that they are in touch again. however, will it get us to -- will it get north korea to the place where they're willing to give up elements of their nuclear program, partially or completely, to really ensure the stability and peace in this region? i don't know. it's a risky move because what he has done, is given, just handed kim jong-un this enormous amount of legitimacy, handed this propaganda boost on a platter. you can see how north korea state media are scrambling to get that picture. it's going to be plastered all over north korean state media. and it puts kim in a position of streng strength. so when it comes time for him to negotiate, he's going to be tougher. it's going to be ha

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

president that that is met and gone into north korea meeting the leader of the north korea at the dmz. that happened about four hours ago. we're going to continue our live coverage coming out of seoul, south korea. again, we expect the president to be making comments shortly during a left-hand side of your screen. for now, a short break. we'll be right back. we'll have more breaking coverage coming out of seoul, south korea. ♪ protect your pet with the #1 name in flea and tick protection. frontline plus. trusted by vets for nearly 20 years. now buy your family three blue diamond almond breeze products and receive a free toy story 4 movie ticket thanks mom. sfx: slurping see disney-pixar's toy story 4 now playing. rated g blue diamond almond breeze now playing. rated g bill's back needed a afvacation from his vacation. an amusement park... so he stepped on the dr. scholl's kiosk. it recommends our best custom fit orthotic to relieve foot, knee, or lower back pain. so you can move more. dr. scholl's. born to move. with advil liqui-gels, what stiff joints? what bad back? advil is... re

but the us has made clear that north korea needs to give something more for the us to consider that north korea is actually taking taking meaningful steps towards conversation. so, i think from what we have today is that north korea and kimjong un is actually willing to go... and if this is the case, we can actually start a meaningful process involving the working level groups from both the us and north korea. we have gone from fire and fury to thanks very much for showing up and not making me look bad. when you look at donald trump's particular brand of diplomacy and kimjong—un — how should north korea be handled? i think it makes sense to me that, at the highest level, with the leader of north korea. but i do think that there needs to be a mixture of different policies. we have seen sanctions still being implemented, dialogue at different levels will be very important as well. so i don't thinkjust meeting at the highest level is sufficient but i think it actually helps the north korea leader who has his own pressures at a domestic level to try to legitimise the process of peace buil

north korea north korea china friendship tower and also celebrating historic ties both were fighting in the korean war which started 66 years ago and both sides need each other and 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 far beyond this meeting 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 and the 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

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. journalist chris harrison in the south korean capital seoul we thank you for that. now italian police have arrested the captain of a migrant rescue ship after it entered the port of london do so without permission cairo leverett cattle was detained for refusing to obey a military vessel a crime for which he could face up to 10 years in prison. it's the end of the mediterranean or to see. finally migrants from sea watch 3 set foot on italian soil. a few i was earlier. the 31 year old german captain of the rescue ship was arrested supporters had gathered in the harbor but also opponents. that our country is being overrun israelis being overrun by them don't let the captain get away otherwise it's the end of the world you must tongue cover now. we've got. those on board see watch 3 languished for more than 2 weeks. several had to

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 ri

north korea. >> would there have been negotiations, battles between whose flag is taller. you mentioned houts a short drive from the observation post where we saw president trump and the south korean president a short time ago, a short drive to the truce village where we believe the meeting will take prays with kim jong un. we saw the vehicles making the move from the observation post down to where the meeting with kim will take place. anna corin, our colleague is in seoul. describe the tweet by the president that seems to have sparked this whole idea which is now in a short time going to become a reality. how surprised were they about it? perhaps how stressed were they by the prospect of making this a reality and how would the north koreans reacted to that? >> certainly, jim, i think there's no denying that it probably caught everybody off guard, including the south koreans. this is something that the south korean president moon jae-in has been wanting. so obviously delighted. we heard from him s

big part of that trade the un sanctions imposed in 2017 banned exports of them to and from north korea with electric cars and textiles also subject to restrictions un sanctions have taken their toll in 2800 exports from north korea to china are thought to have dropped by 88 percent trade in the other direction fell by a 3rd. north korea can at least rely on one commodity crossing the border the number of chinese tourists is thought to be at a record high trade relations are healthy enough that a new border crossing was opened in april this year and around the same time north korean officials were invited to a key summit on president she's flagship belts and road initiative. the maintenance of imports and exports remains essential to both countries kim jong un needs china's help to develop a struggling economy and beijing needs influence over its unpredictable and excitable ally. of what is with asians with our resident china experts cliff included cliff just heard that north korea looks set to become part of beijing's belden road initiative what will china gain from including north kor

-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

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

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

alongside kim jong—un, sitting us president to enter north korea. alongside kimjong—un, making the first —— front page was not this newspaper has dedicated seven pages on this story. of course, there are criticisms that this was just a photo opportunity. south korean media is talking about how president moon who has been praised for his effort that he is focusing too much on this north korean issue and not tackling other issues like the economy. i can also tell you that the north korean main newspaper has now reported with eager pictures on the front page of that historic summitand the front page of that historic summit and historic meeting, i should say. as we know, north korean media usually don't talk about these meetings until much later so it was a very fast response from the north korean state media as well. that is the korean newspapers. what are the other had —— newspapers focusing on? many other papers are also focussing on the trump kim meeting. singapore's straits times says that although the ‘historic handshake has been dismi

president to step into north korea. back in the hot and japan is set to resume commercial whaling after 3 decades but is there still an appetite for it. and a return to the wild we visit a farm in england to see why it's gone back to its roots. there are reports coming in of sudanese security forces firing live ammunition at protesters in the city of gori that's north of the capital call to meanwhile across the country there are demonstrations taking place many of them calling for the military to hand over power to civilians at least one person has been killed and we hear that dozens more been injured organizers of what they hope will be a 1000000 strong march have urged demonstrators to walk to the presidential palace in khartoum now these are the latest rallies to mark the deadline that was given by the african union to the military council for them to hire and to a civilian led government well the military council has denied that it was behind the attack in which a protester was killed and what we have illustrated. t

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

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 denuclearization 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 this 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 tens