from that country, facing south region. fair point. it s really interesting, coming off the g-7, the president made a point up there to have very tough words for the allies. he theoes and meets with somebody who is the opposite of an ally, really, any way you want tonalyze it, and has unusually and really the softest words have ever heard shared about kim jong-un except by himself. what was the tactic employed there? let s look at the track record. first of all, as we mentioned earlier in our conversation, the president has also had some very harsh words for kim jong-un over the previous year and a half or so. but that s what you say about him. what you say to him and different than what you say about him. having a good meeting with a handshake i n t think is surprising. what you say about someone is different than what you say to his face. to his face he said, you re talented. you re honorable. i trust you.
there, and i m not a big false equivalency guy, but sometimes there s no other way to advance the hypocrisy. i mentioned otto warmbier, i said i didn t die in vain, we talked about some things. and there was nothing on the piece of paper they signed that called out this guy potentially to the closest thing to a true genocide force. what would you say? to what point? there s only one i m ma. if obama had done that, and on that piece of paper there was nothing saying this guy has to stop doing what he s doing, what have said? i would have said it s a start. you can t expect it at the beginning. i criticized the iran deal after the deal was inked, not after the process. the president is not going to walk away from warmbier s parents. he s not going to walk away from people whose relatives have died in concentration camps. he already has.
anr way he highlighted the human rights. that s d this moment, right? even kim said there s been a lot of objeacles to get to this point. i m just saying it was expected, especially with a party that s been so consistently against meeting withen like this because of what they represent in terms of lack of freedoms, that that wouldn t be brought up at the actual summit. you weren t a little surprised by that listen, i m taking the president at his word. he was the one there one on one with his translators. this is the first time the two leaders have met and they haven t been talking about it in public. this is the beginning of a process. the core purpose of the meeting today was not to solve every problem with regard to north korea which are multiple millions, it s to make progress on the denuclearization issue which is the most important threat facing the united states
about that, i think, is part of what brought us to this point. it wasn t the old-fashioned american response of sort of being quiet, pretending it didn t happen, saying we condemn in strongest possible terms. thsident made it very clear that that behavior was unacceptable. and by the way, that behavior was not just unacceptable to him or to to us or to the united states, it was unacceptable to all the countries that kim jong-un threatened. the president didn t like being overly provocative, either, because it would have pushed him to act on those words. ostensib nowhere further right now because this is just a piece of paper. there is no promise of a better time to come. the last one, which is an indelicate term, the trump doctrine is, we re america, b-blank, female dog.
destruction. but the talk is what took us to such an ugly place, at least in part. much respect was given to kim jong-un. distinguish whether prior presidents could have had a meeting like this versus thought they should have a meeting like this. they didn t want to have a despite like kim, flags on either side. trump took a risk here. don t call it unorthodox, but it was a gamble. what did he come away with? at this point a deal to make a deal. read that declaration. don t let somebody sell it to you as a deal. it isn t. at is agreed to in there, the main point, the third point, the promise ofdenuclrization, that pledge is an echo of what was done with leader moon in south korea, what was agreed to in seoul. the north korea did not agree pledge or any commitment, you need to know that. and then what did we really get? at this point the inside of a