Prosperity. Second, the United States and north korea will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the korean pinsula. Third, north korea commits to workd the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. And finally, the United States and the north commit to recoveringrisoners of war, missing in action remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified. President trump held a News Conference just a short time ago and revealed what appears to be a major concession on the american side ending the u. S. south korea joint Military Exercises which he called war games. Can you be specific about what assurances you are willing to give to kim jongun . Does that include reducing military capabilities and just to follow up on your answer no, were not reducing anything. At some point i have to be host and i used to say this
during my campaign, as you know probably better than most, i want to get our soldiers out and bring our soldiers back hom
during my campaign, as you know probably better than most, i want to get our soldiers out and bring our soldiers back home. we have right now 32,000 soldiers in south korea. and i would like to be able to bring them back home. but that s not part of the equation right now at some point i hope it will be, but not right now. we will be stopping the war games, which will save us a tremendous amount of money, unless and until we see the future negotiation is not going along like it should. but we ll be saving a tremendous amount of money. plus i think it s very provocative. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, june 12th. we have all the historic, diplomatic, political and security angles of this moment covered for you this morning. former ambassadors wendy sherman, christopher hill and nick burns, will be our guests. we ll go live to our reporters in singapore and seoul. with us to kick things off along with willie, joe and me, the
remind people he inherited his power from his father, a family dynasty of dictators, i would encourage people to read the 2014 u.n. report about what happens inside of north korea in terms of prison, torture, execution, all the things are laid out specifically there. there s a way to conduct diplomacy, is there not, try to get a deal to denuclearization the korean peninsula without cozying up that close to a man who s done the things he s done. they could have separated themselves i mean it was way too chummy. way too chummy. that u.n willie, led the u.n. security council eventually to recommend the north korean leader to the international criminal court for crimes against humanity. the lawyers have looked at this said, 11 out of 12 counts the north korean leader would be taken before the criminal court and thrown into the slammer. so this is i mean the notion that we cannot talk about human rights as we have this