a new history with his country s northern neighbor he was full of praise for kim jong un s decision to go ahead with the summit in a statement released by his office president s mood said leaving the dark days of war and conflict behind we will write a new chapter of peace and cooperation will be there together with north korea all the way along the way i should say with us now from leeds university in britain is aden foster carter a career experts there always a pleasure to have you on and to get your take on these very very remarkable developments i m just wondering are these american allies just putting on a brave face on what essentially feels like america undercutting allies and potentially leaving them exposed to the threat of north korea. you bet they are they may vary in their views but thai prime minister i have to pound to me just to
the first bullet on the page in the briefing is the most important. in this scenario, if you were briefing this call, the first bullet would say to the principal, if you do this call it would be the first one since 1979 when we had apartmental head of state, president-elect talk to taiwan. after that, if you do the call, here is what you talk about. do we have any reporting or reason to believe they grasped the enormity of this ship whether they wanted to make it or not? the state department with all their career experts are available for the new president. typically you would have someone from the state department briefing on this, even participating in the call, being present. we have no indication any of that has happened. is trump being briefed? they say he is. the nature of those briefings, what they specifically contain? we don t know. it would suggest that top bullet point was there and ignored and consciously challenged or perhaps this was a let s test