Mike pompeo, perhaps john bolton will assume a lot of the mantle of sort of the liaison to the allies, keeping peace among the services and all the other things, the traditional roles. we ll wait and see whether shanahan will fit the bill. one of the things that mattis said when he was resigning was that the president deserves somebody he s more aligned with. so is shanahan more aligned with the president? should we expect to see him i guess rubber stamp more of the president s pullout ideas with draw ideas, pulling out of nato or his deciding to do no war exercises in the south korean peninsula? or is mr. shanahan going to be somebody who is going to push back colonel jacobs, do we know right now? he s not the kind of guy who s going to push back. he s a business man.
The air china flight. it seems like the over arching theme is there were not a lot of specifics even to that 60 plus minutes that we heard from the president. were you at all surprised to hear that the president wanted bout south korea and china to be signatories on an ultimate deal to be made with north korea? yeah, well, certainly china has to be because it was a party to the korean war. i think that the in the past the deal has fallen down, because of objections to south korea being a signatory to that, but yes, i mean, the whole issue of a peace treaty is immensely complex one. china has to be a party to that, but you know, then there are consequences from what happens to the u.n. command, what happens to u.s. troops on the south korean peninsula. if there s no war, why are they there. it s nice to say let s have
President for a moment president trump called off the talks. now comments on sunday hear from south korean president moon encouraging, he says in his meeting with the north korean leader, kim said he is determined to hold the summit with president trump on the 12th. omitted to complete denuclearization. there are some reservations. kim reportedly said also there were concerns about security assurances he was getting from the united states regarding his regime and the south korean president admitted there is still differences of opinion as to what denuclearization really means. that presumably, could be worked out in these talks along the dmz. said to be going on monday and tuesday as well. there s also an advance team in singapore preparing for a possible meeting. busy times in the region. thank you. mar vista bring a former us ambassador to nato, now the
There needs to be a strong understanding of what both sides, what all three sides, frankly, mean by denuclearization. is up for the north korea has given up a number of american prisoners as a confidence measure but let s be clear, 24, north korea under kim jong-un his father committed to full denuclearization in six party talks in 2005 and 2007 senator blunt just reference only to then change their tune. .other members of the press where there at about 8:45 pm the president said at that moment in regards to north korea there were meetings taking place in they were happening not far from here. thank you ellison barber. mike? meanwhile in the korean peninsula, the south korean peninsula, moo jae-in, saying that there may committed to a summit and complete denuclearization after a second
Executive director of the mccain institute. ambassador, good to have you here. thank you. here we are comments of the summit between president trump and kim jong-un is back on for june 12 in singapore. based on the comments that he made to south korean president moon, in a surprise meeting saturday, kim jong-un remains, he says he remains committed to complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula. and the end of the korean war. can he be trusted? i think you just have to try. and then see whether we can come up with a deal that is real and verifiable and implemented. the alternative is not to do that. i think it is worth trying and seeing what we can do. this is encouraging statements but of course, north korea has pointed out it has been encouraging in the past only to backtrack so let s see what