possibility. if that did happen, it would be a good thing for, i can tell you, for north korea. but it would also be good for lots of other places and for the world. >> cnn's will ripley, the only american network news correspondent i believe on his 17th trip to the north korean capitol hill is live. what are you hearing on the ground? >> reporter: yes. it was a strange and surreal few hours over the weekend when first there was that tweet from the president then he gives this press conference in vietnam talking about the possibility of a friendship with north korea's leader and the sense that i got when i showed his remarks to the north korean officials we were with -- this is not an official response. t it was a real sticks and stones kind of feeling. the insults they don't seem to resonate here anymore and frankly the talk of friendship doesn't resonate here either. the north koreans felt in anything the president trump,