In a few hours the secretary of state will travel to meet here with leaders from japan and south korea to update them on his conversations in pyongyang over the past couple of days. To the secretary, he made progress. The North Koreans, the talks were regrettable. The secretary, this is one third trip to pyongyang and north korea. The first one where he had no meeting directly with kim jongun. The state Department Says there was never an expectation that they will meet on the trip. As for the discussion with his negotiating team, mike pompeo said they work through difficult issues and set up a framework to accomplish more. The North Koreans also confirmed the facility, we talked about what it would look like for the structure and facility as well. The progress there as well. I know we have laid out a path for further negotiations. So that the two teams can get together and continue discussions. The North Korean Foreign Ministry statement criticizing u. S. Demand also included a message
Against russia. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is traveling with the president and starts us off tonight from brussels. Hello, john. Mike, good morning from belgium where it is just past the midnight hour. President trump loves to shake it up. Thats what he did in his nato debut last year and today he was back at it again, taking aim at countries he says are delinquent in their support for nato, taking aim at one country for special attention. Opening the first morning of the nato summit President Trump held back nothing, ripping germany for its deal with Vladimir Putin to buy russian gas. We are supposed to protect you against russia but they are paying billions of dollars to russia and i think thats very inappropriate. Ultimately germany will have almost 70 of their country controlled by russia with natural gas. So you tell me, is that appropriate . The socalled north stream pipelines will carry russian natural gas directly to germany. President trump today argued germa