To meet with kim jong un. I dont expect that kim jong un would come to the United States because he might fear that he would be thrown in american jail and never see the light of dayat ever again. Ro not that that would happen. N so it may be that they choose potentially south korea right there along the border in panmunjom which would be thehe site of the talks between south koreas president moon jaein and kim jong un later in may. Or maybe its a third country, some neutral country somewhere else in the world where everyone can meet. How did we get to this point . The white house just walking us through that in a Conference Call right now, but chung euiyoung is the south Korean National security advisor, said in a statement outside the white house here that it was due to President Trumps program of Maximum Pressure that north korea came to the table. They said that while kim is committed to the denuclearization of the korean peninsula, he also understands the joint Military Exercises
president trump, as youd remember, tucker, came under an externally mounted criticism for his tough-minded approach towards north korea. a lot of people saying he wanted to start a war with the north. would seem exactly the opposite has happened. rather than the missiles flying, it looks like there will beal talks. and it really is, when you look at everywhere we up until this point, an extra ordinary moment in history. tucker. tucker: it s astounding. john, was there any mention of the role, if any, that china played in this? i think that this was very much a behind the scenes sort of thing. when you talk about the program of maximum pressure, that wasn a just the united states. it was the united states and a number of other countries, first and foremost among them china. president trump has pushed xi jinping time and time again to get tougher with north korea, to increase the sanctions, to put the squeeze on north korean banks, to not allow workers in north korea north korean w