just thank prime minister awe bay, because they did a fantastic job and a lot of good things came out of that, a lot of good meetings with other countries, i can tell you from the standpoint of the united states. but we decided to come here a while ago as part of going to the g20. i promised president moon. and then yesterday i was just thinking hey, i m here, let s see whether or not we can say hello to kim jong-un. and i put out the word. and he got back. and he wanted to do it from the beginning and so did i but there s a lot of good feeling, you know when sometimes the media will say gee, what s happened? well, they know what s happened. what s happened is there was nuclear testing. there was ballistic missile testing. they had hostages of ours, as you know. very tough situation. and now we re getting back our remains. we got back the hostages.
harry. was talking about the turmoil going on because of the level of the vitriol, the level of vitriol that was happening between north and south. but it was north to a large extent where there was a lot of risk and a lot of threat and a lot of bad things were happening. that was before i became president. and as you know and the media knows very well because they covered it frankly very well and very fairly, at the beginning there was a lot of anger between myself and kim jong un, who since something happened. there was a point at which it happened and all of a sudden we get along. and i figured that when he was in japan where they hosted a fantastic g20, and i want to just thank prime minister abe because he really they did a
rates and they ve been lowering interest rates. we re not playing on a fair field. the fed has not been of help to us at all and despite that we re winning and we re winning big because we ve created an economy that s second to none, greatest in the world. and one of the things that happened at the g20, the president came up and said the same thing, president moon, congratulations on the economy, what s happened in the last two and a half years is incredible. it s incredible. if the the other thought process would have won the election we would have instead of being
who s here some place, was talking about the turmoil going on because of the level of the vitriol, the level of vitriol that was happening between north and south. but it was north to a large extent where there was a lot of risk and a a lot of threat and a lot of bad things were happening. that was before i became president. and as you know, and the media knows it very well because they covered it frankly very well and very fairly, at the beginning there was a lot of anger between myself and kim jong-un, who since something happened, there was a point at which it happened and all of a sudden we got along. and i figured that when it was in japan where they hosted a fantastic g20, and i want to
leaders are conducting their business with the united states, vis-a-vis national security, what did that what are some of the headlines that came out of what you saw on that very topic? well, unfortunately i don t think they re very good. i mean, you know, first of all when the president so historically when the u.s. president goes to the dmz he goes to the dmz to talk about the strength of the alliance with south korea and the strength of deterrence, to ensure peace on the peninsula. now he s going to the dmz to meet the north korean leader to legitimize the world s worst human rights abuser and at the same time to say nothing about the strength of the alliances. we saw that the g20, and you see it in south korea and in japan, the president really doesn t value these alliances at all, or believe that there are common values held by these countries. he monetizes these alliances and thinks of them largely as countries that free ride off the u.s. security commitment. meanwhile he s