the white house just announced that president trump is hosting japan s prime minister in a little over two weeks. their get-together at the president s florida resort, mar-a-lago in palm beach, where they also met last year, comes as the president prepares to meet with the north korean leader, kim jong-un. cnn s brian todd is joining us right now. brian, looks like the north korean leader has started his own pre-summit charm offensive. he has, wolf. so far, kim jong-un has scored some real propaganda victories. but two key questions tonight. will kim end up getting what he wants from these charm offensives and what happens if he doesn t? a k-pop band called red velvet, wildly popular in south korea and around the world, performs in front of an elite audience in pyongyang. one of their most adoring fans, north korea s supreme leader, kim jong-un, leads the applause. he and his wife, once an
that work. hard to see, though, in 2018 that kim jong-un is going to change his mind. all indications are he will proceed with his weapons development. boris? yeah. barbara, we also got some mixed messaging from him today. he talked about his country s nuclear capabilities but then he also talked about potentially sitting down and talking to south korea? he did. he hinted that he would be open to some discussion about north korea sending a delegation to the winter olympics being hosted in a few weeks by south korea. whether that happens, i think the world sports community is very uncertain at this point, whether that is even likely. will kim follow through on this kind of olive branch new year s talk? hard to see. maybe yes. but still, very much he also was adamant that if he felt attacked, if he felt threatened, he would respond and we know that he has this missile
returns at high speed. experts say that launch and north korea s test of a high thrust engine in march sped up the icbm capability and showed this determination to have this threat in his back pocket against the u.s. once he has a reliable long-range missile that can carry a warhead to america, how will kim s behavior change? that s the critical question. there are those that believe that now that he has an icbm capability he will be more likely to agres at lower levels of conflict. on the other hand, he has shown and demonstrated restraint when it matters. tonight, kim is vowing no restraint if he s provoked. north korea is threatening a nuclear strike on the heart of the u.s. if america tries to remove kim from power. that is a response to recent comments from the cia director when he discussed the potential of regime change related to north korea s missile and nuclear threat. i m hopeful we will find a
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