beginning, that north korea if it makes a strategic decision to denuclearize can have the prospect of a very, very bright economic future. the president held that door open for north korea in singapore. they didn t walk through it. he held it open for them again in hanoi, they didn t walk through it. he s ready to hold it open again. no fixed date for a third summit, but he s turned tradition aldi proposal city traditional diplomacy on its head. and why not? it has failed in the last three administrations. chris: you would agree it has failed so far with you too. well, after eight months. he s got a record of 24 year of failure to stop north korea chris: but would you agree that so far this move with kim has failed? i don t think we re in any worse shape than they were in past administrations. i think, in fact, we re in a stronger position because the maximum pressure campaign, as it s been called, of putting tighter economic sanctions on north korea and enforcing those san
administration he says is to denuclearize. eric: those joint military drill with the south and japan have been held routinely. what can you tell us about the decision to end them. reporter: the pentagon says this was a decision made between south korea and the united states. according to the pentagon the secretary and minister approved the alliance decisions recommended by the u.s. forces korea and the republic of korea.
. jon: the white house defends the no deal outcome of the second north korea summit as president trump continues to draw bipartisan criticism, criticism over his remarks regarding the imprisonment and death of otto warmbier. good evening, i m jon scott, this is the fox report. jon: president trump touted his meetings with kim jobbing unduring a fiery speech at cpac yesterday, insisting he had to walk away from the negotiating table. national security adviser john bolton says future talks are a very real possibility, and the time is working in the president s favor. north korea, if it makes a strategic decision to denuclearize, can have the prospect of very, very bright
you never know what the north koreans are actually going to come with, or if they re going to adhere to it. we re talking about things that don t have common measurements. and what north korea has done consistently in the past is promised to denuclearize and then, by the way, not do it to get economic benefits which get them out of the trouble they re in and then allow them to go back to the nuclear program. that kind of mistake is exactly what president trump said he would not permit in his administration, and he did not do it. reporter: saturday evening a couple of days after president trump left hanoi without an agreement, the u.s. announced it would suspend large scale military exercises with south korea. critics say it is a major concession that north korea is not denuclearizing, but the u.s. is agreeing to suspend drills we know north korea dislikes. president trump disagrees tweeting, quote: the reason i do not want military drills with south korea is to save hundreds of
posted for. the chinese post singapore opened up the appe aperture. paul: that s after last year s summit in singapore, they said the era of good feeling is here so we don t have to work as hard to enforce it. possibly the reason we don t call out the chinese on this is because we re working a trade deal with them, we re gettin gee to a decision. i think we have to double down on the sanctions. it s the thing that brought north korea to the first summit. it is the thing that will keep them in this if there is some realization that they re going to denuclearize. it remains to be seen whether they re going to or not. paul: it doesn t appear that kim jong un has made the decision in a practical sense to denuclearize. i can t speak to that i just don t know. paul: practically speaking, the evidence th the evidence would suggest he s not going to. it took him 20 years with the ancestry to acquire the arsenal