the president with north korea a gasp from traveling press pool two turned around kim walked into south korea to the west. about 30 feet winded, by the way, we are standing four feet from him when he did it. and looked sort of bewildered i don t think he does a lot of press availabilities in north korea the two walked into a building a kind of meeting hall a very small room we followed them, kim was trailed by dozens of north korean security officers all wearing thepins with father and grandfather s faces with them got protest rough with some traveling american press our o secret service jumped in kind of pushing it was all over he and president kim talked in room no bigger than average
stick with us judy for a minute i want to ask gordan chang if you are chairman kim how do you handle this moment? i mean we know that north korea has gotten deals from the united states in the past and reneged on them. that is really been the mistrust that has been keeping these two countries apart, you know from kim s point of view he has got a clock as well, you know we say oh yeah he is one man ruler he can do whatever he wants, but he has the constituent elements inside the veregime in pyongyang when we see hear about discussions it is a sign that there is not all is well means kim has to keep up the sense sf prosperity got to remember there is the class in north korea that dwelled over the last 10 years mere chance people who have been able to make money by putting together buyers and sellers, things that are legal but, nonetheless, necessary and you know he has to keep those
lot tougher likely will if kim jong-un does not respond in the way the president hopes. bright just a question of disappointment, just a human reaction but, also, there is the forces that we have obligations to our allies, in the region, the south koreans the japanese, we have to provide for their security as well. and they may not have south koreans going to be patient but japanese are not going to be we have had responsibilities to them as well, so there is a number of forces that do constrain what we can do i think president trump is going to understand, that there is so much time that he can give them, but he also has november 2020 on his mind as well. jon roberts chief white house correspondent rejoins is now he is covering the president s trip from south korea. jon give us your take what we ve just seen at dmz? what is interesting to he me the president trump and kim jong-un still inside freedom house you have positive wonder what they are talking about
facilities for missiles and weapons of mass destruction so there does need to be a sign that they actually have made the strategic decision to give up their weapons, president trump s policies make sense if kim has made that strategic decision. if he hasn t made that decision, then american policy is not going to work. so you know it all is going to come through pretty soon as joel rubin said, once you have a very good event like this, it creates that momentum and then it also creates the risks for everybody that they don t follow through, because disappointment is a very powerful emotion. folks who are close to the president mainly his daughter and son-in-law jared kushner ivanka trump are standing there perhaps we will he be hearing more from the president after he emerges from freedom house we expect it will be momentarily but, again, who knows? things have been this has been
other nations that are supplying north korea with goods that are banned under u.n. agreements. those are the kinds of things that the treasury department could go after. yes, and this is a global what can whackamo game there are so many different front companies kim jong-un changes front companies all the time means that we have to sanction, all the new front companies. and in may of last year, as the wall street journal reported, the administration decided not to go after nearly three dozen front companies basically russian and chinese we wanted to create that center where kim jong-un felt united states was a friend that was a big gesture on part of trump agency also allowed north koreans to evade sanctions because we weren t going after new money routes this raid on north korean