blue huts i first visited in 2015. the last year the marathon talks took place, lasting some 44 hours in two days. to understand the dmz we need to go back to the end of world war tr ii. the communist north tried to get it all by invading the south most say. technically the war never ended. an arm cyst agreement putt them on their side of the dividing line, 65 years and counting. today north korean is facing its toughest sanctions ever over kim jong-un s nuclear program. for the north koreans the motivation to take part in these talks is due to the pressure building up on the country. reporter: pressure that only stands to increase in 2018,
korean demilemilitary rised.e the first official talks in two years between north and south korea will be held in the so-called truce village. the dividing line between two neighbors still at war. delegates will be sitting a stone s throw away from the path a north korean soldier took in november in a dramatic defection, shot five times running south. the talks will take place in peace house, one of three buildings built specifically for discussions like this, two in the south, one in the north. sometimes they have disagreements over which side the talks should be on. reporter: this time they re on the south side. north korean officials will likely pass through the same
unless both sides find a diplomatic path. a path that begins here, a painful reminder of the region s violent past, tense present and uncertain future. reporter: the facts that these talks came together so quickly may be an indication, according to some experts, are the north koreans are getting desperate because sanctions are going to kick in this year. i was in pardoning tyongyang tw ago, today is actually kim jong-un s birthday, he s believed to be in his early to mid 30 s. this year peace talks one day after his birthday. many are hoping that is a sign of things to go, diplomacy. coming up we bring you the latest from new york s jfk airport, where a water main break has disrupted travel in a big way. new cardmembers earn at the end of their first year,
be open to talks with kim jong-un. any other president saying that would be big and news worthy and we wrote about it but it was overshadowed and not clear because in the past he said he s not open to such talks. he s being unpredictable once again. david sanger, not just the president and his team, listen to british prime minister theresa may. in the states there are quite serious questions being raised by some people about his mental state. do you think they are serious? as i say, when i deal with president trump, what i see is somebody who is committed to ensuring that he is taking decisions in the best interest of the united states. how awkward is this for our allies? it s awkward because ana, there s a disconnect between the seriousness of the problems we re beginning to face around the world, particularly in this coming years and the increasing concerns that you re hearing about the president and the allies are trying to figure out how do you work out both sides
phone call with north korea, how would that go between the president of u.s. and kim jong-un, potentially? it s not first time the president has said that he would be willing to talk to kim jong-un. during the campaign he said he was willing to sit down and have a hamburger with him. when i interviewed him with maggie has beberman, fellow cnn contributor for the network here, he said at that time he was willing to go talk with him. then of course, during the middle of 2017, we got the very fiery comments about him and the change of the name to rocket man. i think that less important than the question of will the president talk is what s our strategic objective when those sets of talks begin? right now the position of the united states is north korea must agree in any talks as a precondition to be giving up all of its nuclear weapons and its