if you heard at the top of the hour, he was talking about the importance of the locations. the importance of president trump being there. and seeing this. and as well, how the conditions have changed over time. so, the president now, at the dmz, he will meet now with u.s. and south korean troops that are stationed there. close by. and then, we believe he will finally meet with kim jong-un at some location close to the demilitaryized zone. he confirmed it would be happening in a press conference about two hours ago when he was standing next to moon-jae in, you can see, he is not going to be necessarily in the meeting with kim jong-un, but here for the visit. the president spending 10 or 15 minutes there. and the timing thoughs has been what has been stretched out
exercises, the north koreans, have not extended their exercises. stand by, as we await the meeting. we will pause now for an nbc special report. you are watching history right now. president trump, will be meeting with north korea dictator kim jong-un at the demilitaryized zone. that separates north and south korea. you are looking at live pictures right now from the pool. this is just, moments away, just feet away from where the line of demarcation is at. he will be the first to meet with a north korean leader at the dmz, it comes days aft afte
leaders coming in and meeting together. becauseet kim jong un also travs with ang very large security detail. so you re going to have v president trump if he s not already there or arriving soon showing up i would assume he s going to have people all p around him, perhaps trying to stay out of the shot so that it doesn t look like some sort of military assault, trying to stay out of the camera lens and kim jong un asns well with his security at his back. andty again for those who ar just joining us here on msnbc, what we are waiting and what could be happening right now is that president donald trump could be meeting potentially for that two minutes that he described with kim jong un. there at the demilitaryized zone. that s where richard engel is at the moment. and i believe when we got the notification about 20 minutest ago that now would be that time. weth did see some helicopters g overhead, over the spot where
something. thank you. we start a new hour with president trump extending a bold invitation to north korean leader kim jong un as the president has arrived in south korea to meet with president moon there. all of this of course coming as the u.s. and chin agreed to reon trade talks, likely to be welcomed big-time by wall street on monday morning. welcome to a brand-new hour of america s news headquartersism eric shawn. arthel: i m arthel neville, a pivotal point as the g-20 with both sides backing off any new tariffs while trade negotiations continue. president trump touting his meeting with chinese president xi as, quote, better than expected. the focus now shifts to north korea as the world waits to see if kim jong un will accept the president s offer to meet him at the demilitaryized zone.
russia and turkey plan to patrol a demilitaryized zone around the long rebel stronghold in syria. turkish president and russian president vladimir putin announce the agreement for idlib on mono-. calling for rebels to withdraw heavy weapons from the province by next month. defense minister says the syria government planned minister to retake idlib is shelved. joining us from instan bull with the latest. how significant is this agreement? can it really avert a full scale attack on idlib. if so for how long and how exactly is this going to work?