The avoiding talking about ending his Nuclear Program. Sixth, dont try to be friends with kim jongun. He killed his uncle, his halfbrother and hundreds of others. He is a despot. Those people up in canada, by the way, are our friends. And thats hardball for now. Thanks for being with us. Msnbcs special coverage of the summit with Brian Williams and Rachel Maddow starts right now. Two volatile leaders. They have tested each other. Rocket man should have been handled a long time ago. Theyve taunted each other. Kim jongun issued a direct response. I will surely and definitely tame the mentally deranged u. S. Dotard with fire. Now, theyre moments away from meeting for the first time facetoface. I hope the upcoming meeting in singapore represents a bright new future to the world. With the stability of the region and the world on the line i dont think i have to prepare very much. Will their summit bring us closer to peace or peril . This is an msnbc special report. The United States north Ko
aimed at seoul and its surrounding suburban area? probably 50,000 to 100,000. there s no anti-rocket artillery mortar system in the wor t could defend the population of seoul from an onslaught from north korea. one of the concerns we ve had is when the trump administration was talking publicly about a potential first strike, a first strike against north korea, the concern of course was that north korea would retaliate not necessarily against the united states but against seoul. and now you see the additional this is tape playback. the playback of the arrival of kim jong un at the hotel there as he enters the building and gets ready for his historic meeting with president trump. as someone recently said, that the mercedes limousine has been the favorite of dictators and spots going back decades around the world. you just see the no license plate thing and it just puts a little shiver down your spine. you know what i m saying? that ll get you pulled over in new york. jere
don t have war anymore. even americans might say why do we have our troops in south korea, didn t we end the war, let s bring the boys home. that really just undercuts the rationale for our troop presence. that s the giveaway, isn t it? if they push in that direction in the first couple hours that s what he s pushing for. that s what he s saying by saying we need regime security. and the japanese are very scared of that. another one of our veteran analysts has joined us, that s jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia, former chief of staff at pentagon. so his bona fides are clear and on point for this conversation. jeremy, if you ve been listening to the conversation, then you know several people have made the point that this is before the first hand shaikh, before the first photograph of the two together victory north korea. a summit is not an accomplishment for the american president, brian. it is a major accomplishment for kim jong un. in fact, the spectacle of seeing th
they have a plutonium processing facility at yongbyon. they have probably a very sophisticated uranium enrichment program in which they are spinning cascades, centrifuges in which they are building additional capability to develop nuclear weapons through that path. they have long-range intercontinental ballistic muscles which can hit chicago and denver. the only yard chic, brian, which which we can measure success of this entire process is not whatever statement comes out tonight. it s whether those missiles, those weapons, those nuclear faciti are removed and the danger is removed the threat to the united states and our allies. that s the only metric upon which we can measure whether this is at all successful. jeremy, let me ask you another math question, and that is this. take nukes out of the conversation. seoul is a metropolitan area give or take 35 miles from the border. how many artillery tubes are embedded in those mountains