that said, it takes years to identify what we are getting. they have fooled us before by putting animal bones and cad avers, and it takes years to identify the dna of the service men members for these poor families. that s right, andrea. you know very well, you accompanied me for that visit in 2007. you have to have verification of the remains. the north koreans are tricky. they re slow rolling these remains. they ve said there s going to be 200 that they will give us. they re giving us 55, which means they re going to do this in phases. i think as you pointed out, it s only 1% of the 5,300 remains north of the 38th parallel. still, this is good, because it honors our military families. they want a lot of these remains back for closure. it s a good step. but it s typical north korean strategy, slow rolling it, and then in the end, they re going
only about one thing, how am i translating these words are that are spoken. they re not trained. it s not their position, their job to thinking howm i going to read out the national security adviser and the secretary of state over what was discussed. so the concern here is that donald trump and kim jong-un probably not the two most trustworthy people in the world are the only people who are going to know what is discussed in this, besides the interpreters. and that is that s a t whole reason why you always have somebody. i have been assuming that the interpreters had a dual role. i had been assuming that the interpreter is some master spy. let s talk about definitions. i ve been studying on this there is a problem of specificity here. which we say denuclearization of the peninsula. and what kim means by that is we get rid of our troops. we ve got to get rid of the nuclear umbrella, the trip wire at the 38th parallel. we take out the works, leaving south korea exposed to their art
the first time. you said you don t think it will happen. would you, if you were negotiating for us in this situation down the road, would you give up our troops on the border, our 30 some thousand at the 38th parallel, would you give a nuclear umbrella over south korea and japanfhey agreed to get rid of their nuclear weapons leaving them with this tremendous fire power at the border, would you do that as a deal? as a negotiator, no. nuclear for nuclear. no, you mentioned the conventional troops as well. that s a game changer in terms of the balance of power on the peninsula. and here s my real fear, chris. you started to talk about it earlier. here s my real fear. let s say they get an agreement and the word denuclearization is in there. that would be an achievement and i would celebrate it. i would say that s progress. but along the way, years down the road, the north koreans are going to pump the brakes. they re going to say, wait a minute, you have nuclear weapons, we have n
possibility approximatet space for president trump to negotiate with kim jong-un potentially meaning that you could have a withdrawal of u.s. troops creeping into the negotiations. that seems what mattis was hinting at. he didn t say it entirely affirmatively saying it will absolutely be on the agenda but he left open the possibility, ali, and that is significant. that is, yeah. one other quick note. we asked if we would see any change in military posture among the north koreans. he gave an affirmative no. he said several times all is quiet. they are not seeing military activity north of the 38th parallel. 5:18 before the summit begins. you can watch it all here on msnbc. we will continue to countdown to the summit and a big focus f north korea is their economy and relief from sanctions. while the trump administration is looking at possibly helping the north economically, the concern here at home is where is the economic relief from the president s self-made tariff war
three, for 3/4 of a century, the world has avoided the use of nuclear weapons. the success of this summit depends entirely, i think, on whether we can prolong that avoidance and make the world safer. four, kim jong-un knows that the only reason trump is talking to you or him that he has nuclear weapons. he saw what happened in iraq and libya when they gave their nuclear weapons. one leader was hanged and the other leader was beaten to death. kim has a clear focus. keep our weapons. he is like the nra that way. will he list his nuclear weapons and say where they are? that s a great question. will he allow independences? that s a great question, mr. president. five, keep definitions clear tonight. does denuclearization mean we remove our 30,000 troops and remove our nuclear umbrella from south korea and japan? a peace treaty between north korea and south korea would remove the justification for our 30,000 troons at the 38th parallel. if kim starts off about ending the korean war, be warn