from north korea s leader, kim jong-un. earlier, kim met with secretary of state mike pompeo. neither official would comment on any possible locations for a second summit. we have cnn military and diplomatic analyst john kirby with us here now. he served as a spokesman for both the pentagon and the state department during the obama administration. you look at this going on and you have a favorable view of what this could mean? i don t want to be polly annish. this guy kim yong-chol, he has kim jong-un s ear and he has more importantly his trust and he is the one that came over say positive sign. it shows that they re very serious about trying to get a summit going and to keep the discussions going. now whether or not they re serious about really denuclearizing and what that means and closing the gap between the two sides, that s another story and we ll have to see what they have to say at the end of today s meeting. the frustrations of many american in the diplomatic sphere is that
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line from state media is that kim jong-un and xi jinping had a warm and productive visit. it came on kim birthday, no less. and state media saying he turned 35. that he rolled into town quite literally on his armored train, sent a few important signals. first a second summit with president trump is likely imminent. kim met with xi before his first summit in singapore last year. site could be in the coming weeks. we re hearing hanoi, bangkok or hawaii as option. secondly it telegraphs kim ovals or prioritizes the advice that he gets from xi jinping and validates china s role as a broke in this case. it serves as a reminder to the united states any road in a deal with north korea will go through beijing. the timing didn t seem to be a coincidence. as the u.s. trade delegation was
going into a potential second summit between trump and kim. you have a meeting of the minds at their first summit to denuclearize. but none of the details nor a statement that quantifies exactly where north korea s nuclear talks are. there is talk about getting them together again. because at the end of the day they are the only two decision makers who can agree to fundamental change. when kim met with xi jinping, it sort of put them on a different track. trump had to postpone that summit. so you could forecast turbulence. but things are still going okay. negotiating is president trump s jam. some people criticized hits decision to pull out of the trans-pacific partnership. how does president trump end up
general assembly in new york. president trump and kim met face to face in june in singapore. the north korean leader pledged to denuclearizing his country. rich edson is live at the state department right now. rich? john, progress between the united states and north korea is so, so slow that last month secretary of state mike pompeo cancelled what would have been his fourth trip to pyongyang citing a lack of progress from north korea. now he says he wants to return. i m hoping i ll be back in pyongyang before too long to make more progress. if that s the case, i m hopeful that chairman kim and president trump will meet in the near future. pompeo says the diplomacy continues. lots of conversations between the two countries across many different forms and venues about how to move forward. earlier this week, the state department revealed that north