As he goes into it. However when you contrast it to what the president has said up to tonight. Here is how the administration has been describing its goal for the singapore talks. North korea has the opportunity to end decades of poverty and oppression by following the path of denuclearization. The conversation is going to be focused on denuclearization in the peninsula. The goal and the purpose of the conversations is to have denuclearization of the peninsula. The denuclearization of the korean peninsula. The president has laid out to what he wants to see as a commitment to denuclearization. I will be meeting with kim jongun in the coming weeks as we seek to denuclearize the area
and the entire korean peninsula. The stated goal and now, not so much. I think it is a gettingtoknowyou meeting plus. There is another one. Whatever else you might think of the summit, that sounds like a different agenda. Human rights might not be on the agenda either. Here is the president talking about toda
to denuclearization. and instead of you seeing denuclearization or the standing point, they were willing to actually think about it in a parallel way, not only keeping the pressure up on denuclearization but also trying to cool tensions and improve the relationship at the same time. so the u.s. was already getting to get a little little more lenient heading into hanoi. and that s why a lot of outside watchers were expecting a at least some sort of stated principles coming out of this summit. so even if they weren t able to secure something tangible, that an inventory wasn t agreed upon or something that north korea was able to agree to and so even if they were going to fall short of something tangible at least there would be something general, some statement of principles like we saw in the santosa agreement which came out of singapore. but we re falling short of even that, which is okay if you re looking in the very long view. if you re expecting north korea
i was watching as a lot of you folks over the weeks have said, oh, we ve given up we haven t given up anything. and i think frankly we ll be good friends with chairman kim and north korea, and i think they have tremendous potential. i ve been telling everybody they have tremendous potential, unbelievable potential, and we re going to see. but it was about sanctions. they wanted sanctions lifted but they weren t willing to do an area we wanted. they were willing to give us areas but not the ones we wanted. john? as we know, i mean there s an incredibly complex set of issues that are at play here in terms of lifting sanctions and what denuclearization is. did you get any resistance towards what there s a line of thinking that he wants to keep some nukes. i mean, would you allow him to do that? i want to comment excuse me, i don t want to comment on
sure, still leaves missiles and war heads and weapons systems. so there s a lot of other elements we couldn t get to. and the listing of all elthem. and the declaration, so all of those things we couldn t get to today. go ahead. thank you, mr. president. taung. i just wanted to clarify when you talk about what you would be willing to give up all of the sanctions for, are you still thinking that you want north korea to give up everything to do complete verifiable denuclearization before you lift sanctions? that s a good question. i don t want to say that to you because i don t want to put myself in that position from the standpoint of negotiation, but, you know, we want a lot to be given up. and we re giving up. and we ll be helping them along economically, us and many other countries are going to be helping. they re going to be in there. they re prepared to help. i can tell you, japan, south korea, i think china, so many. and speaking of china we re very
yeah? you have to speak up. i m a reporter from south korea and i appreciate your effort to advance denu denuclearization on the korean peninsula, and could you elaborate the various ways you discussed with chairman kim to denuke larization? we discussed many ways and the denuclearization is a very important word, has become a very well-used word. and a lot of people don t know what it means, but to me it s pretty obvious we have to get rid of the nukes. i think he s going to have a chance to have one of most successful countries rapidly on earth, too. if you think of it you have on one side russia and china and on the other you have south korea and you re surrounded by water. and among the most beautiful shorelines in the world. it s tremendous potential in north korea, and i think he s going to lead it to a very