with more coming near future. good question as to what exactly near future means as far as specifics. they re still working that out. secretary of state is on his way back right now from his trip to asia, that included a five hour stop over the weekend in pyongyang and another meeting with kim jong un. secretary of state says the chairman agreed to allow outside inspectors analyze nuclear and missile engine test sites to ensure they ve been destroyed. pompeo says the u.s. and north korea are negotiating logistics for those inspectors. the state department as they re also working out a time and place for a second summit between president trump and chairman kim. after his fourth visit to pyongyang, secretary pompeo traveled to seoul and then on to beijing. while in china, he received a public reprimand for the trade policies and rhetoric despite that, he stressed the two countries must continue working together to push north korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons.
he is at an annual police chief conference in orlando, the largest gathering of law enforcement leaders in the world. with more than 15,000 public safety professionals attending this year alone. and it comes ahead of the ceremonial swearing-in for u.s. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh. later tonight, we will bring the president s remarks live as he takes the stage. meanwhile, secretary of state mike pompeo after meeting yesterday with north korean leader kim jong un. i m meeting pompeo was calling another step forward on the road to denuclearizing the korean peninsula. even saying there was another talk of another trump-kim summit. meanwhile, the state department reports that north korea is ready to allow inspectors into its nuclear and missile sites. president trump tweeted this. secretary pompeo had a good meeting with chairman kim in pyongyang. progress made on the summit. i look forward to seeing chairman kim again in the near future. live at the state department
heels with the meeting he had with president xi, with south korea s leader as well as the lavrov of russia. what do you think is going on here? is he trying to raise his stature in advance of the world summit? in the case of assad it would be the first head of state to meet kim in pyongyang. it would be a first. it s also the totalitarian club. you have the world s last totalitarian, kim jong-un, meeting with an international pariah, assad. kim is sending a signal to the americans if you think this process is going to domesticate me, somehow i ll compromise my allies, including the syrians, you re wrong. it carries a fair measure of symbolic value. whether it will actually happen before june 12th thereafter is another matter. as nic pointed out in his reporting, north korea has sometimes made concessions that turn out to be reversible.
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president s critics were saying his hot rhetoric might lead to a nuclear war. instead we may now be on the brink of a peace summit, and three american hostages. her new this hour: we have learned the president spoke today by phone with the president of south korea, moon jae-in, duke discussed mike pompeo second secret trip to north korea. officials telling us the president told his counterpart he s looking forward to welcoming them back to the white house may 22 to get on the same page about the president summit with kim jong un. that call follows pompeo meeting today with kim in pyongyang for 90 minutes to lay the groundwork for the presidents meeting with kim that i mentioned about. we are expecting that to happen in early june. today the president ruled out the korean demilitarized zone for the meeting with the dictator. the president saying today the release of these three hostages sets the table nicely for that summit. now, what s also interesting is that since the dmz has been ru