down again with the north koreans as the world watches for results. secretary of state mike pompeo arrived in pyongyang needing to score a win for president trump on getting north korea to give up its nuclear weapons. across the table, north korea s vice chairman said it was a meaningful meeting. i look forward to it. reporter: this visit pyongyag and the first since president trump and kim jong-un held a summit in singapore last month. one more time i ll have to pay taxes here. reporter: still joking may not last for long. pompeo has a huge task ahead. he really needs to add meat to the very bare bones of the singapore communique. he needs to get a real unequivocal and public commitment by north korea. we signed a wonderful paper saying they re going to denuclearize their whole thing. it is all going to happen.
just a throwaway line, sometimes it s not. and that s what s so hard to know. how serious is he about any of the things he suggests? particularly for the venezuelans. and latin americans. in america, we might say doesn t mean that much. means a lot to them. a heck of a lot. come on, guys, really. when the president of the united states muses aloud to a bunch of folks and then shares it with foreign leaders, you know what? i might just use my military to invade the country. that s not just sort of a casual thing. that s completely reckless. i don t disagree. at the same time, i know i know you can find clips of me saying, i don t think saying my nuclear button is bigger than yours leads to any good end in north korea. it still might not for sure. at the same time, i would not have predicted that day probably sit down for a summit
it remains remarkable that the president emphasizes he takes vladimir putin for his word when he says, hey, he told me he didn t meddle in our election. this is a former spy. why would you believe putin? no president should take putin at his word most of the time. let me ask you this. during the same interview john bolton shared a plan with denuclearizing north korea within a year despite reports that the country is amping up the nuclear arsenal and deliberately trying to conceal it from the united states. could the u.s. being played by kim jong-un? is this and i-told-you-moment for the white house? it is concerning that there have been multiple reports in the last week about how north korea s ramping up its nuclear program. it is not the sign of something that you wanted to see after that big summit in singapore. so mike pompeo, the secretary of state, is going to north korea later this week to try to get a declaration of everything they have in their arsenal, but i m
president s summit in singapore which was largely photo opportunity, a vague communique we re trying to understand better. i think the white house is wrong to say that journalists or the country generally has been dismissive of what was done in singapore. any sensible person, i think views diplomacy as much preferable to the threat of nuclear conflict with north korea. the question is how these details are going to work out. it s been interesting to watch secretary of state mike pompeo travel the capitals of asia in the days after the summit trying to make clear to people that, well, this is conditional that we ll stop military dpexercises for as long as north korea is negotiating in good faith. that s a crucial clarification. i think pompeo is similarly trying to say to china yes the president may have tweeted that the north korean nuclear threat
and at the same time insulting the prime minister of canada. president trump is back in d.c. this morning returning from his summit in singapore. after an active night on social media. he tweeted four times about meeting kim jong un twice thanking him for taking the first bold step to mote and for suspending nuclear tests. trump took aim at domestic critics writing a year ago the pundits and talking heads, people that couldn t do the job before were were begging for conciliation as peace. please meet, don t go to war. now that we meet and have a great relationship with kim jong un, the same haters shout out, you shouldn t meet, do not meet. very almost caveman like. have you seen it s like fred flintstone running the country. writing things on a stone. not able to do that. did you see the clips yesterday from fox news, the same people that were yelling at barack obama about meeting with