ranking democrat on the senate foreign relations committee, senator bob menendez. senator menendez as i bring jim sciutto back in, kaitlan collins, senator menendez was ticking through the demands that this administration has, trying to get some clarity on where this administration heads despite the canceled summit to reach any sort of agreement with kim jong-un. what stood out to you most in that? menendez asked the key question, he asked secretary pompeo what does a deal look like to you? what does it look like to the president? does denuclearization mean no nukes what so ever or are you willing to negotiate? is there some kind of middle ground there and while secretary pompeo said our position, our public position is very clear, he then said i don t want to in effect prejudice any future negotiations we might have. so he doesn t want to set red lines in effect on that issue.
rhetoric there. and then a few lines later, as if you re writing an e-mail to a friend, please do not hesitate to call me or write. remarkable let s listen to the secretary of state. the state department recently transmitted to chairman kim and north korea letters to chairman kim jong-un, chairman of the state affairs commission of the democratic people s republic of korea, and it reads as follows, dear mr. chairman, we greatly appreciate your time, patience and effort with respect to our recent negotiations and discussions relative to a summit long sought by both parties which was scheduled to take place on june 12th in singapore. we were informed that the meeting was requested by north korea, but that to us is totally irrelevant. i was very much looking forward to being there with you, sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel it is appropriate at this time to have this long planned
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with kim jong-un at the end of last month in which he described it as basically a stepping stone to the anticipated, much anticipated and now canceled president trump, kim jong-un summit that was scheduled for singapore on june 12th. one of his top advisers told journalists as president moon was flying to washington, to sit down face to face with president trump in the white house on tuesday, that he was 99% sure that the singapore/u.s./north korea summit would take place. now it has been canceled. so a big blow to the south koreans and just another sign of the incredible roller coaster that the korean peninsula, that this region has been through, in the last six months, where you ve gone from north korea firing a missile, what it says was its most powerful ballistic intercontinental ballistic missal as recently as last november, a nuclear test, the most powerful and sixth nuclear
the community of nations, and i hope that kim jong-un will ultimately do what is right not only for himself but perhaps, most importantly, what s right for his people who are suffering greatly and needlessly. all of the korean people, north and south, deserve to be able to live together in harmony, prosperity and peace. that bright and beautiful future can only happen when the threat of nuclear weapons is removed. no way it can happen otherwise. if and when kim jong-un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue and actions, i am