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well, this in spite of the fact that he spent last year threatening to do exactly that. now he wants to scrap this nuclear site in mid-may. that could be just weeks before a proposed summit with president trump. really what he s trying to do is capture the narrative and to prove to skeptics that he s open to the world, that he can be trusted while u.s. officials may point to decades of broken promises by north korea and they may take some convincing. but in one respect, things really are changing. times are changing because kim jong-un has also proposed moving north korea s clocks forward by 30 minutes to match south korea s. changed times indeed. chief global correspondent bill knneely on the streets of seoul. michelle wolf under fire for her roast at the white house
are looking at live pictures. the ceremony taking place outside the blue house where president trump s motorcade is slowly making its way to the blue house situated behind us. that is where, of course, president trump will be meeting with president moon jae-in, where north korea is definitely at the top of the agenda. president moon since he s been in office the past six months has wanted dialogue with north korea, something that has frustrated donald trump. so it will be interesting to see how they can mend a strained relationship, moon and trump perhaps don t see eye-to-eye but certainly this alliance is some 67 years old. and as we have heard earlier, the alliance is bigger than any individual. now where we are located here on the streets of seoul, you can see thousands of police, and they have been here manning what
military assets. no word on whether they will, but they re hoping for aircraft carriers, for bombers, which they have done in the past. and anti-missile defense system, there were two launches in the country, very controversial in south korea. the government has now agreed to bring the full remaining ones n in, temporarily, but clearly showing they are concerned with the level of threat from north korea. on a political note there are concerns here after that tweet from u.s. president donald trump saying that south korea is using appeasement against north korea. there is confusion as well on the streets of seoul as to why donald trump is speaking twice in 24 hours to japan s leader and yet since that nuclear test happened has not yet once picked up the phone to south korea s president. that s something we re seeing playing out here in seoul. dave? certainly that is a curious situation. paula hancocks live for us in seoul. thanks. president trump and his national security team closel
correspondent paula hancocks in seoul. these are statements back and forth between president trump and north korea. what is the response where you are? reporter: well, christine, it s interesting. on the streets of seoul you really wouldn t know this is going on. the south koreans have been going through this for decades. of course, still technically at war with their northern neighbor but of course the officials are more concerned. they are happy to see that there is more u.s. military hardware coming to the region. the u.s.s. carl vincent should be arriving in korean waters any time now. that is expected. that is something that south korea and japan is pleased about. we know that president trump also had a phone call with the chinese leader xi jinping. we know they talked about korea. wanting them to negotiate for peace on the korean peninsula. as we heard, it is not the time for talks. we are hearing an increase in
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