going to reintroduce the threat of war with all that that could mean, if that threat actually were ever made good upon it would be extraordinarily costly by any measure. is he going to claim that he was betrayed by kim jong-un? he has a problem, though, wheres are going to begin to weaken in part because the rest of the world essentially ran with the president s depiction of all this as a success, south korea doesn t want to see a movement towards war because they would pay a larger price than anybody. for me the real you know, the administration hasn t tried diplomacy is what i would argue and the danger is they re going to say, fareed, they tried it and it failed. the only real diplomacy here would be partial steps by north korea in return for partial responses by the united states. if we continue to make this all or nothing, we are going to have nothing. susan glasser, you ve reported that you think that mike pompeo was hard-headed about this all along. that privately he was tel
the terms that the u.s. views it. what happened, though, after this first round of talks that were quite long, so secretary of state sits down for nearly three hours with kim jong-un s right-hand man. again, this isn t the first time they ve spoken together. they had this discussion. the next morning things seem a little tense when you hear what s coming from each side. they sit down and talk again. mike pompeo leaves, he talks about there having been progress in almost every area, that north korea is indeed committed to these things, including complete denuclearization. then all of a sudden we see this statement coming out of north korean state tv with the same kind of fiery language that they ve used in the past before all of this talking started. talking about the u.s. having a gangster-like mindset. that there is unclear outcome to these talks. that it s worrisome. that in their opinion it s just
what we saw at the g-.and after that the kim jong-un summit where he president goes, has a bad relationship with our closest partners and allies and then goes and embraces a dictator, in this case mr. putin. there is a very real fear of that between london, the nato summit and then heading to the meeting with putin. he has an opportunity to do just the opposite, to show real solidarity with our closest partners, to have a good nato summit, to take credit for some of the progress that nato has made in strengthening its capacity and putting more money into its efforts and then going with a united front to see mr. putin to call him to account for the things russia is doing around the world including our elections. everything today suggests he will do the opposite but he does have an opportunity to reverse the narrative. just to be clear, the president is going to sleep the night in london, he is just not doing anything during the day, no public appearances. susan, you wrote an you ve
tony blinken was a deputy secretary of state and deputy national security adviser. he is a cnn global affairs analy analyst. tony, let me begin with you. north korea s top official actually in some way perhaps intentionally or unintentionally referenced donald trump s tweet by saying to mike pompeo, i imagine you didn t sleep well last night, or something like that, suggesting that the north koreans had given a pretty tough message to the americans. you know, fareed, it s good that the administration is engaged in diplomacy. it s good that mike pompeo went to try to follow through on the president s meeting, but thus far at least the art of the deal is looking more like the art of the steal and not in president trump s favor. everything to date has accrued to north korea s benefit and kim jong-un s benefit. we ve given a lot, we ve gotten very little in return. unfortunately north korea is very practiced in the art of string, ring and walk. they string along walks, they wring out eco
through or with china. three things now, as we said, the president has undermined his own leverage by talking by success that isn t there, that s given the green light to china to ease up on the pressure but at the same time he s prosecuting a tariff war against china and china is retaliation, that s going to make it more difficult to get china to do more on north clae and, three, we ve also of course taken apart the iran deal and as part of that we re trying to get countries including china to buy less oil from iran and not to end is the proceeds back from the oil that it does buy to tehran. on all of those fronts the president has made life more difficult for himself. north korea, kim jong-un, they see that. kim jong-un has reestablished a better relationship with china. it was pretty much in the gutter a couple years ago, the chinese were deeply frustrated with kim jong-un, they saw him as the source of the instability they feared. now he is back in the driver s seat with the chines