welcome back. in less than 24 hours, donald trump will become the first sitting u.s. president to meet with a north korean leader. for the last few hours, mr. been meeting with singapore s at city state is obviously hosting this historic summit. and that is where we find our next guest, the ceo of the korea risk group and founder of nk news. chad, great to have you with us. the u.s. has said that there must be a commitment of complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization for there to be any deal with north korea. but do you believe that kim jong-un is on the same page? no, the north koreans have a different view of denuclearization. they been talking about denuclearization of the peninsula, and traditionally that serred that the u.s. should remove its nuclear threat
security blockade, where are there police checks, which road will i be unable to drive down. so social media has been instrumental around the government has been corresponding with everyone to make sure that we know what s happening where and what to avoid, of course. yeah, and if you re going to have a summit, singapore is a great place for it.it s a very city state. it also seems the bulletproof bodyguards who make up the security detail protecting kim jong-un have made quite the impression. they first appeared in april when kim jong-un travelled to the meeting in panmunjom. and now they re causing a stir as they jog alongside the leader s limousine? yes, indeed. i heard our own anchors as we were covering the live event just yesterday when we saw the motorcade, kim jong-un s motorcade leave the st. regis and head down a famous orchard road to the palace where he was going to meet the prime minister, when that was happening, those bodyguards were out and they were running
inferred from what sarah huckabee sanders said. no, they re not going to do that. i think the template for how we would expect this to go, if it takes place at all, because bear in mind we don t know where this is going to take place. kim jong-un has yet to meet a foreign leader since he took over north korea, and he also hasn t left the country since he took over north korea. so the only two places i can see this meeting taking place or three places would be first in panmunjom, second in pyongyang, or third, some ship off the coast of the korean peninsula. and it s not obvious to me that s going to be agreed upon. the other thing to realize is the only template we can think of with trump when he has met with an authoritarian leader one-on-one without much in the way of consultation was his meeting with vladimir putin on the margins of the g20 summit. if you remember how that played out, he announced with great fanfare there was going to be joint cooperation on a cyber unity, i belie
we ve traveled to parts of north korea that few foreigners have ever seen. in panmunjom, the cold war never ended. the quiet countryside surrounding this area is littered with land mines. no filming allowed on the roads here. now our government minders are letting us do a little souvenir shopping. i ve never seen a gift shop like this. these postcards are some of the most popular items. this one reading, we will crush the u.s.ttempts for a nuclear war. this one, to the u.s. hard line, we will counter it with the ultra hard line. and you can buy them right here. if you think the postcards are intense, wait till you see the posters. you don t need to read korean to know what this means here. the u.s. capitol there. the symbolism says it all. yep, that s the capitol, and that s a giant fist crushing the u.s. did you see the american being annihilated by his own missile? i m sensing a theme here. what makes all of this even more surreal is where we are.
in panmunjom, the cold war never ended. the quiet countryside is littered with land mines. no filming allowed on the roads here. now our government minders are letting us do a little souvenir shopping. i ve never seen a gift shop like this. these postcards are some of the most populartems. this one reading, we will crush the u.s. attempts for a nuclear war. this one, to the u.s. hard line, we will counter it with the ultra hard line. and you can buy them right here. if you think the postcards are intense, wait till you see the posters. you don t need to read korean to know what this means here. the u.s. capitol there. the symbolism says it all. yep, that s the capitol, and that s a giant fist crushing the u.s. did you see the american being annihilated by his own missile? i m sensing a theme here.