the u.s./south korean alliance, raises questions for japan, sanctions will begin to loosen. it s a pretty good day in beijing. incredulous to hear the president, his take on how to work all this. they presented a video to the north koreans about all the wealth they could amass in the future and then the president said this they have great beaches. you see that whenever they re exploding their cannons into the ocean, right. i said, boy, wouldn t that make a great condo. i explained, instead of doing that, you could have the best hotels in the world right there. think of it from aeal estate perspective. you have south korea, you have china and they own the land in the middle. how bad is that, right? it s great. so i think, joe, might be time for some deep historic parallels and perspective on that comment and so many others. yeah. i think so.
the president announced to a press conference that what he called a war games, annual defensive exercises we have with south korea he considers provocative and he ll understand them. i understand the north koreans taking that position. i m surprised at our own president taking that position. it s stunning. let s listen to the president taing about that. can you be specific about what assurances you re willing to give to kim jong-un? does that include reducing military capability ies? we re not reducing anything. at some point i have to be honest and i used to say this during my campaign as you probably know better than most. i want to bring our soldiers back home. we have 32,000 soldiers in south korea and i d like to bring them back home but that s not part of the equation right now. at some point i hope it will be but not right now. we will stop the war games which will save us tremendous amount of money unless and until we see
he kept going and he has i president trump someone who seems to have a real investment in kim jong-un ice success, working with him, so many flattering terms so what i d like to ask our distinguished panelists, all of whom have been involved in deep diplomacy is to help us this about this process and maybe i could ask chris hill to start us off by thinking about what he sees as the biggest stumbling blocks ahead as we try to flesh out this very loose initial framework agreement. this is a very loose initial framework. it doesn t really advance the ball and frankly speaking i think the next step shower mike pompeo forgetting about this
want a complete and full declarations of all nuclear weapons, weapons precursors, facilities, and expertise that then could be verified, identified and located and verified by internatl atomic energy agency. these rts of specifics are missing from this document. you wonder like did we really need a summit to get this document? there s nothing on time frame. i had heard a lot about trying to get some sort of time frame. particularly the year 2020 into a document of this nature given the president s time in office, and clearly they were not able to get any of those things. there s a lot of specifics that are missing in this givenhe very high expectations, given the fact that we pulled out of the iran deal and we said we want something better than the iran deal. that was 110-page document. this doesn t measure up. big picture on this as someone who has worked on north korea as you have, what was your view of it? even seeing the two men walking out and the north korean and united state
regime. he has been very threatening beyond a normal statement ands i said they will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of this which world had never seen before. i think without the rhetoric it wouldn t have happened. i think without other things going along, i think the establishment of a new team was very important. we ha great team think he wants to get it done, i feel that very strongly. from fire and fury to friends? right now president trump is in the air m 25-hour 10,000 mile journey back to washington, d.c. it has been a whirlwind few hours but the final results of the singapore summit will take longer to determine. welcome back to morning jol wi