military pact to assure there is no miscalculation or military tensions sparked. on wednesday night, the south korean president spoke sitting next to kim jong-un and he talked about denuclearization. that is something you could not imagine happening a few months ago. paula, thank you for that. reporting from seoul. president trump s attorney claims nbc edited lester holt s interview with the president last year where mr. trump said he was thinking of the russia investigation when he fired james comey as fbi director. here is the president telling that to lester holt in may of 2017. i was going to fire comey. knowing there was no good time to do it. and in fact when i decided to just do it, i said to myself. i said you know this russia thing with trump and russia is a
will he reverse his gulags and violation rights in his country? we are looking at pictures right now of kim and moon s wives meeting as if it is a presidential summit. an every day summit. thank you so much, paula hancocks in seoul. we will check back with paula. these are the wives of president moon and kim jong un. meeting friendly exchange. let s welcome in josh rogin from the washington post. not just a pledge to end the korean war 65 years after hostilities cease. also a joint pledge of complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. josh. amazing images we are seeing coming out of this meeting. this is one day after the trump white house released images of secretary of state mike pompeo
all right. the 2018 winter olympics in pyeongchang begins next friday. the thawing relationship with north korea and south korea showing signs of icing over again. the north announcing it will not join the south in what is supposed to be a joint culture performance. we have paula hancocks in seoul this morning. what happened, paula? reporter: dave, it shows it is suddenly not smooth sailing with the negotiations about the olympics. this was going to be a culture event on february 4th. it would be held in an area in north korea. across the border where they used to have holiday resort together. we had a late letter from the north koreans to the south koreans on monday night saying they were cancelling it because the south korean media insults.
missiles to test nuclear devices, and the united states wants more sanctions, will chinese go along with that and answer to that question is, well, the chinese always say we don t answer the hypothetical questions such as those. matt rivers, let me turn for a second to paula hancocks in seoul, south korea. it s great to have you on. i feel like i spent the last year coming to you after each trump tweet feverishly asking you, do we understand better now what is the trump policy on north korea, what has he done and how is it going to impact one of the most volatile situations in the world. now you have a year, a year s worth of material to look back on. what s your assessment? well, cyril, it is very interesting how much things have changed in one year. if you look back just before the inauguration, there were north korean officials who were officially saying on the record
we re joined by dan rivers on the border with north korea and paula hancocks in seoul, south korea. we ve been talking to both of you extensively throughout the year. i want to hear from you, how would you sum up mr. trump s impact on the korean peninsula? matt, what was the trump effect over the last year? reporter: really the u.s.-china relationship, there s a lot of things to deal with there. environmental issues, trade. but north korea has absolutely dominated what is called by many the most important bilateral relationship in the world. in some sense, it s an been an example of cooperation between the united states and china and look no further than the three different rounds of sanctions passed by the united nations and here along the border, that s where china is enforcing those sanctions. and we really have seen an effect here in cities line