seoul. good morning, paula. you talk about singapore. any sense of why? reporter: dave, it is intriguing. it is one the u.s. officials around trump and inner circle were favoring for some time. one reason is security and it is a neutral location. we know the u.s. president was thinking about the dmz after he saw the north/south korea summit and the optics of walking across the demarcation line. u.s. officials were not happy about that because they thought it was showing a conciliatory gesture of going to kim jong-un s backyard. they wanted somewhere neutral. it is a close ally of the united states. singapore. from the north korean point of view, they are happy with it because they have an embassy there. they don t have embassies in that many countries. the leader there of the country welcoming it saying he hopes it
and it is not exactly clear why if the date and time have been set this remain as mystery that the president is teasing ahead to. he hasn t said when the big reveal will happen, but certainly there has been a lot of speculation about where the meeting could happen. all sides that are involved here have indicated that they are looking very strongly the possibility of having this meeting at the dmz, from the optics perspective, that seems to have appealed from president trump and from the logistics perspective as you point out that would certainly be an easy trip for kim jung-un to make. he has really only traveled outside of north korea once since coming to power as far as we know and that was the trip about a month ago to beijing to sit with president xi jinping. and the other possibility for this summit is the idea that it could happen in singapore. and certainly there are those within the administration who seem to be pushing the president that a neutral option like singapore could b
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of course before that summit happens, there is this meeting with between the south korean president and president trump, a lot of ground work was being laid for that within the last day. the national security chief from south korea traveled to d.c. to sit down with the national security adviser not only to debrief on what happened during the north korea/south korea summit, but also to talk more about what is expected to happen during that big summit between trump and kim. and as far as forward moving developments, we know kim jung-un reset the clock so north korea would be aligned in the same time zone as south korea. and now we hear there are reports of possibility of flights between the two countries. what do you know about that? reporter: yeah, these are pretty rapid developments. we do know that a u.n. committee will travel to north korea this week to assess the possibility. they will be looking at the navigation route, at various safety issues. this was a proposal actually fir
all morning about that north korea and south korea summit, touting it as a win. but also expressing some cautious optimism here. he was saying that it s going to be something great, essentially saying too early to tell, it is unclear which way that it could go. of course this comes as the president is planning a meeting right now with kim jung-un. there he is on twirts saying after a fewer yus year of miss is still testing, things have changed. so that is something also that the president is focusing on, but also welcoming another world leader, angela merkel here at the white house today, something that will come in stark contrast t to the french president s arrival here for three days of pomp and circumstance. with merkel, the three hours she s here won t be as chummy and friendly as that visit. certainly a more sterner part of