alternatives to this either an open war or creeping russian occupation. our correspondent jenny hill is in chisinau, and has more on the summit. today was largely about symbolism, as is often the case with this kind of summit. it s no accident that those european leaders chose to meet here in moldova. of all of ukraine s neighbours, it arguably has the most reason to feel vulnerable in the wake of vladimir putin s full scale invasion of ukraine. moldova is a former soviet state. it s wedged between ukraine and the eu. for many years it s been heavily dependent on moscow forfuel, forfinance, and whilst its government leans heavily to the west, it s desperate to join the eu, there is a region, transnistria, which is in the hands of pro russian separatists. there are still russian troops there. it s a hangover from the soviet era and the way in which it ended in this part of the world. so for those european leaders who gathered in that rural castle today was about sending a me
and were coming up republic of moldova are think the largest in any place in the region. that has had an impact. the trade issues that have been developing between ukraine and, ukraine s ability to export their grades, many of those commodities have had to come through moldova into romania and then going beyond the european borders. it has impacted in that way. at times, moldova has been directly threatened by russia, as we have seen, either by a flyover of missiles or other statements that are meant to scare moldova into some kind of either neutrality or submission. so they have been threatened both on the security front as well as on trade front, and of course there have been clear economic impacts on the republic of moldova, which fortunately most of the world
jinping, one of the good things for president trump to accept the offer of direct talks was it cut the chinese out. during the six is-party talks start anything 2003, china unbalanced using its position at the center of those to pressure the united states and the international community more than pressuring the north koreans. for kim, what he was trying to do is try to get some chinese support as he goes in with moon jae-in, and of course president trump. julie, help us understand the timing of doing a hard line trade deal with south korea, a time when you want to have as close a relationship with them as possible. what s the thinking here? well, i think that you can t separate what s happening on the on trade front from what s happening with north korea. there will be some outstanding issues in this trade negotiation