we have to make sure that kim feels so pressured his back against the wall that it s either regime collapse or he spends the rest of his life in posh exile or ereforms and denuclearizes. we are not there yet. what does the u.s. have to gain by coming to the table here? not a lot. i mean, mr. trump will end up legitimating him. a summit meeting is unlike a blind date. it must be clear of, devoid of any surprises, spontaneities, annate ma, and for mr. trump to presume that he with his innate charm and ingenuity and brilliance and the art of the deal and so on can get this dictator who is the third generational leader of a dynasty that s been in power for 70 years, a regime that s been
the region. they do not want to see the north korean regime collapse. that is their worst case scenario for instability right on their doorstep. so while everyone s looking for stability, especially as we come up on the olympics in south korea after the new year, it may be that the u.s. and the chinese have a very different view of what that stability and what that diplomacy may look like in the coming weeks. brianna. cnn s barbara star. thank you. secretary of state tillerson stated flatly in his new york times op-ed today that russia has meddled in the u.s. election and that the u.s. has a poor relationship with russia. let s go live now to moscow and fred planken. i wonder what the reaction is like there, fred. reporter: well, it s a pretty harsh words coming from the russians, brianna. it was the spokeswoman for the foreign ministry, she came out
responsibility of the american president. the fact that the president is silent on that, consistently silent, i think is the major problem. peter alexander, the white house has first of all contradicted the secretary of state in the last couple of days over his overture from ten days ago to north korea, we ll talk any time, anyplace, talk about the weather, the size of the table, the shape of the table, saying that he was dead wrong about that. tillerson then on friday pulled took a much tougher posture. we look back on what tillerson in that same ten days ago briefing and tillerson apparently reviewed a secret agreement with china, notification to china that the u.s. would control and find the nukes given the regime collapse in north korea but would not stay and occupy.
predecessors from both parties in congress from time to time you saw another bill introduced. part of the issue is given that the united states has come to the realization that china is really important to the north korea solution, does beijing have a little more of an edge than it did a little while ago? it certainly seems to with this president. ever since he was a candidate, donald trump has believed that china would fix the north korea problem for us. meaning that because china supports most of north korea s economy, if it wanted to, it would really turn the screws on pyongyang and force it to the negotiating table. the problem is that was never really true. china has a quasi relationship and it s loathed to put too much pressure on lest that regime collapse. even more problem at sick in the interim, north korea has develop an icbm capability. so the question of what is really possible has become a much more difficult one. this thesis that china will somehow fix the problem b
because he needs them in north korea. they realize that they can promise to do some crackdowns, and they have done some on the north but not enough to make the regime collapse. the central problem the president will face on this trip is that his own cia publicly said no amount of isolation and sanctions going to get the north to give up the nuclear weapons program. that means he s either committing himself to a set of military actions or destabilization actions or ultimate acquiescence. what do you know about who is prepares the president for this trip? that s the huge part of this, briefing, from protocol to policy. he doesn t have a lot of the positions filled in the asian bureaus. who is getting him ready? the one person getting him