very welcome, and there certainly has been a lowering of tensions, but much hard work lies ahead, and north korea not only as long as it possesses nuclear weapons poses a nuclear threat and a conventional threat on the peninsula and all of these things need to be addressed going forward. >> it seems like, to a lot of folks at least, the only definitive thing to come out of the summit as a result of president trump's determination to stohese joint military exercises in the region, south korea seems to have been taken a bit back, by surprise, by that. is that accurate, madam ambassador? >> yeah. well, i mean i actually think coming out of this summit is a start at the top. unconventionally, and then at a very sort of trumpian way, but of a dialogue which is a good thing. i wouldn't set that aside entirely. but, yes. i was disturbed and think a lot of south koreans were to hear