out what kind of military posture s appropriate and that s war games, he s likes to call it, have long been a reassurance to our partners and a show of might to those who might cause trouble. right? reporter: so this will be something the president will have to really kind of keep negotiating with friends and even with the american people. kelly o donnell with us here in singapore. thank you much, my friend. i appreciate it. i want to bring in now speaking of the department of defense, hans nichols who s back home in washington. so, hans, if that statement from south korea was the equivalent of an emoji shrug, are we getting anymore details from the pentagon about what it means? we re gagtd pledge to work with allies and partners and to on th page as the white house. let me read you the official statement here. it s really an attempt to make sure there isn t any daylight between the white house and pentagon when publicly there obviously is. here s what they say. the department
just in time for the network morning shows, the president treating korean war to end, the united states and all of its great people should be very proud of what is now taking place in korea. the big question, willie, what are the next steps? what does this mean in north korea being an honest broker or is it trying to cut the u.s. out of the process? we ll ask the president about this when he holds a joint news conference with german chancellor angela merkel later today. kristen welker at the white house, thanks so much. mike allen, let me turn to you, there is a north korea tie. mike pompeo as cia director made that secret meeting over eastern week end to visit with kim jong-un, perhaps laying the ground work for what we saw today but really for the meeting between president trump and kim jong-un. so take us behind the scenes of the pompeo confirmation yesterday and how he got there. real quick on the summit with the president, this raises the
north korean leader is willing to give up his nuclear weapons. i was in korea covering the olympics a couple months ago and president moon was under a lot of stress, a lot of criticism, getting heat from some corners in south korea for even allowing that north korean delegation to come to the olympic games. that lack of trust, that skepticism has been built up in south korea over generations. what s the feeling in south korea as people watch those pictures? in the runup to this thing, everywhere you looked there was a big hyping up of this summit. it was almost declared a success before it happened so from the government s perspective they have tried to sell this in a very important and persuasive way about why the korean peninsula want peace. but the key to peace is the
goal of realizing through complete denuclearization, a nuclear-free peninsula. so they agree on the goal. they agree to carry out disarmament in a phased manner. as military tension is alleviated. and substantial progress is made, in military confidence-building. in other words, it is conditional. and then came the kind of extraordinary statement no more war on the korean peninsula. but look, guys, this isn t a miss world pageant where everyone simply agrees on world peace. this is a summit and skeptics in washington and here in south korea will be looking for the detail. we ve had too many, in fact two failed summits before in 2000 and 2007. that were filled with fine words and came to absolutely nothing. so i think president trump may well be reserving judgment this morning. and waiting to see, does he now
guy on this. but it places a lot of weight on the summit between trump and the north korean leader because the key piece has still not been addressed so there will be attention paid to what president trump can get on the nuclear issue from the north korean lead lead leader. i think he will meet with president trump and explain what he learned about this but there s a lot of pressure on the u.s. dprk summit that is supposed to happen. dr. victor cha, thank you very much for talking with us this morning. and coming up next, the white house was twisted up in knots about what it knew about rob porter and when. now there s a new timeline about the white house staff secretary who was let go over allegations of spousal abuse. that s next on morning joe