soldier. so, while the atmosphere today is peace, and that is a good thing. this is, that is easily reversible. and it s a area of more tension than peace. if you were to look at the seven decades, where are we in terms of on tension. i may have to cut you off, would you say, high, medium or low? we are lower if we are looking at seven decades and we are lower because of south ko a koreaan president, the presidents that engage in personal diplomacy, the bottom line inindicators are still, while the u.s. suspended
different players before, so security concerns, quite severe in this case, would be more comfortable with a scenario tried before. also fairly easy to anticipate the themes. president trump saying his charisma and kim jong-un s charis charisma that led to this moment, a de-escalation of the tension. as we look at what the next steps might be, we don t know, they re meeting south korean side. they normally prepare an agenda, do they not, for such high stakes meeting in terms of what will be accomplished or not? are normally doesn t really apply with president trump. president trump wanted to have this meeting. this meeting had been talked about and discussed and it had been in the rumor mill among
remarks to the traveling pool that he is responsible for that and saying if he had not been president, president obama or a democratic president would have led the united states to a war with north korea. and that he is the bringer of of peace here. and that is certainly debatable. because, as far as we can see, what happened is, president, when president trump was elected, kim jong-un escalated his activity and trump escalated his assets in the region. and now, there s a sense of relief from that peak of tension. from the top of the hour, you if you are just joining us. we are covering breaking noose out of south korea. it s the dmz, between north korea and south korea. there s video of the president leaving the dmz, one of the look-out points.
and others is the one in the middle. they were used as different purposes, as far as the commission and maintaining the armisist, they are still used for discussion. but the joint security issue has changed quite a bit. they really try to make it reduce the tension. in the area over the past year, year and a half. and one could a argue, it s been one of the benefits of this piece process. but the concern is, it s reversible. we have had thaws between the two koreas and this is also been an area of high tension in 1976. north korean soldiers took an axe and killed an american
perspective. the south korean president too, he is following the president up to the dmz, because he wants see some more progress or more meetings between kim and trump so he can push forward with his own domestic agenda. which is to try to create more economic action with north korea, and obviously, with the president, and all that is going on in washington and mueller now going to testify. he wants to take as much tension off of that, and claim this as a big foreign policy have victory for him. as he pensioned himself for the campaign. we are going to take a short break, we are watching breaking news. president trump, on location if you will, we with expect him to be meeting for a photo op for some a amount of time, undetermined at this moment with kim jong-un of north korea, when it happens we will have it right here on msnbc, for now, short break.