that were scheduled with south korea along the demilitarized today and they have called into question the summit with the u.s. after just yesterday, christine, inviting south korean journalists to attend a ceremony scheduled for next week for what is supposed to be the dismantling of north korea's main nuclear testing site. christine? >> ivan watson, thank you so much for that. let's go live to washington and bring in digital director zach wolff. good to see you, sir. here's the white house statement on all of these developments. we are aware of the south korean media reports and we'll continue to coordinate closely. what is missing here is anything from the president, not a tweet, from a statement. what do you make of the white house reaction or lack thereof? >> it was always going to be very difficult to make these talks happen. and they still could, by the