president trump and kim jong-un meet in just hours here in singapore. both had the chance to speak to singapore s prime minister. christiane amanpour sat down with the prime minister of this city state. it s so interesting. kim has met with three world leaders. president moon, president xi of china, and now the prime minister of singapore. sit part of his big coming out party. what were the imprelgzs the prime minister had? reporter: john, you re absolutely right. the biggest prize for kim will be when he sits down with the president of the united states just a few hours from now and where we are standing. i asked the prime minister of singapore, one of the closest links in terms of trade and
tourist spots in singapore. you called it his coming out party. yeah. it s his coming out party. an all-expense paid trip to singapore for a leader who really doesn t get out very much. the thing we have to remember is that he does all of these things and it looks like a big success for him. it all makes sense if you assume that she going to walk in to a meeting and say i want peace with the united states, but thank you, i m going to keep my nuclear weapons. then all of this talk about coming out, reform, everything else, makes sense. on the other hand, if this is really questionable, whether he ll give up his weapons or not, then you have to have a tremendous leap of faith to say he s ready to reform. right? ready to change the way he s doing things after the country devoted the majority of its natural resources for the past 50 years to building this nuclear weapons program. finished it in december. then he s going to walk in tomorrow and say, here. it s all on the table. you can ha
thank you all. victor, i m dying to get your perspective on kim jong-un, the north korean dictator as kim jong-un the tourist here in singapore going and checking out some of these attractions, late night, ten hours now before he s supposed to be shaking hands with donald trump. this is a remarkable moment to see this man, the leader of what is often called the hermit kingdo out and about mingling and socializing. what do you make of this? this is clearly his big coming-out party, you know, summit in singapore, the whole world is watching. he doesn t have jet lag because there s not much of a time difference between singapore and seoul, and he s making the best of it. he is really using this opportunity to do this makeover. you have to remember just a few months ago he was the threat to the united states. the worst you ll man rights abuser in the world. and now he s on the world stage where every world leader wants to meet him and he s going around singapore seeing the sites, a man t
maybe he s watching this fied right here. kim jong-un is smiling. he s on this charm offensive. phil, you described as did victor cha as his coming out party. this is a guy who has a laundry list of human rights offensives against him. had is a dictator who is believed to have starve dollars his own people, killed family members many southeast asia. you think he s trying to make people forget? clearly he s trying to make people forget and it s impnt to point out we ve not heard anything from the american delegation about those human rights abuses pds that t. that was not something that mike pompeo talked about in his press conference a couple hours ago and it s not something that they ve indicated is on the agenda. they ve made it very clear that s not a top priority going into these talks. you re seeing the back of this delegation walk out and we re working to identify some of the members that are with him. we know that obviously huge security coin continue againstsy is there.
department of treasury. a hit on russia while the president is here in singapore. hallie? nbc s kelly o donnell t on theth floor. thank you very much. catherine and philip are back with me. as we talk about the russia factor here, another striking moment, talking about images we ve seen of kim jong-un in the last several weeks, has been of him with sergey lavrov. vladimir putin tries to muscle in on the north korean action, you can say. absolutely. you re seeing other leaders start to show up here, which means that kim is really not just i mean, you talk about a coming out party, but it is bigger than that. it is a diplomater moment f eic him, trying to move on to the world stage more. and from the perspective of what we saw over the last 90 minutes we re showing you the video, some of which you saw life her live here, as kim jong-un walked the streets here, down by the bay, with the singaporean foreign minister.