Watching pictures of him. Attending the being in the g. 8 jr say looking from this observation post across into the north of beaming president moon obviously he is its very important for him that this gets these negotiations back on track he seems to have staked his whole political reputation on this whole process so he will want to see as he mentioned in that press conference that this leads to something more a yes it is just a handshake but he has said that possibly it could well lead to this 3rd summit a meaningful summit before the end of the year and thats important of course here in korea because that is the deadline that kim jong un of north korea has set after the failure of the hanoi summit they said they were humiliated by that walking away without a deal and really giving the South Koreans and also the u. S. A deadline that unless the United States come back to the negotiating table with something more basically meaning some relief from sanctions then who knows what will happen next intimating that possibly it could return to some of its Nuclear Testing and its longer range missile launchers. We havent seen that so far but there has been hints that what there might be a future here on the Korean Peninsula with the restarting of some launching of smaller shorter range missiles that have worried people so j. N. On the South Koreans will be very hopeful that this will indeed succeed just to go back to some of the points james was making about the j s a the joint security area and the changes that weve seen during this whole process of reconciliation it is a very much different atmosphere up there at the moment we have seen for example some of the small changes that have been agreed between north and south korea the guards that are brought in there between the blue hearts they are no longer arms they no longer take the hostile face to face stance against the guards on the northern side its a lot more a relaxed atmosphere you have tour groups on the Southern Side waving across the tour groups on the northern side and its these small changes that yes we have seen setbacks in recent weeks weve seen a return to some of the north korean hostile rhetoric again a directed south korea and also to a certain extent to the United States but there have been these small steps taken the dismantling of guard posts along the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone the lifting of landmines the the digging of also for remains of soldiers who were killed in a still missing along this the demarcation line along the d. M. Z. So we have seen small measures being being taken small improvements and its all of that which julian of south korea wants to see built upon that is all now at stake is the future directions of relations with north korea very much hanging in the balance down here and you talk us through some of the changes that have happened at the jail say the joint security area the famous. Its rob how comfortable do you think President Trump will be making that move stepping over the border i mean you saw you were there when president moon j. N. Did exactly the same thing during the april 27th seen summit with with him and kim jong il but of course this time around this huge issues with security and logistics. Absolutely and im sure. The question is how long this has been in the planning this has been in the offing whether we believe President Trump that this just came to him saturday morning yesterday and he decided just to tweet about it and see what happens or whether it has been days in planning because of course the secret service will have been running around all throughout the night media here in south korea ive been reporting all kinds of meetings that have been going back and forth during the overnight at the d. M. Z. To make sure that this all happens the big thing i think for President Trump is. The fact of making history its worth pointing out that the guard post that they have just been the observation post that theyve just been to is the one that u. S. President s normally visit when they come to come to the d. M. Z. You can look across into north korea what you can see from the observation post interestingly especially in this border area where you have all of this one upmanship between north and south korea it is this flagpole that dominates the skyline of north korea it was or maybe still has the wreck ordered i think of being the tallest flagpole on the Korean Peninsula with the biggest flag and theres the troops up there tell you one of the problems with having the worlds biggest flag is you need an awful lot of wind to actually make it look impressive for a lot of the time it actually just hangs there limply what we have seen today in fact is there is a lot of wind so it has looked quite impressive but all of the president s i think bar one i think the. President bush sr only visited the d. M. Z. When he was Vice President he didnt visit as president but it is one of the pilgrimages that all president s seem to make as they go to the d. M. Z. What they do not do is they go down then into the blue huts walk up to the demarcation. Unlined shake hands with north koreas leader and then is if that is what hes going to take place take a start step across into north korea there and rob youve been following this very very closely in terms of the machinations of diplomacy and so on let me ask you i mean how far apart then are both sides i mean weve seen no denuclearization weve seen a couple of missiles being launched by north korea that trump dismissed and said look you know this is not really a huge problem but i mean just talk us through for those are just joining us now how far apart are both sides and how the south korea president moon jay and what does he think of his role Going Forward because as you say hes pretty much say his political career on this. Thats right i mean as we watch these pictures it is quite dizzying of with we are potentially seeing history in the making and you really have to ground yourself and say well hang on a 2nd this is all meant to be leading up to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula which we keep hearing about and we keep hearing from the president who is possibly overly optimistic he has to be optimistic because the price of failure potentially is just so disastrous to contemplate that he when you actually look at what has taken place there has not actually been any parts of north Koreas Nuclear arsenal that has been boxed up or decommissioned or handed over and they are still miles apart from each other when it comes to their relative positions. Broke down we know that and so they still remain along let me just finish on those i said just how we are and our viewers what were seeing president from. The south korean president have now arrived at the joint security zone there inside one of the famous blue huts were seeing president i believe meeting some south korean m. P. South korean Border Guards there as you say theyre not allowed to bring weapons into the air anymore so President Trump shaking hands were still still awaiting the arrival of the north Korean Leader kim jong il so again you know the waiting game continues but were sort of inching closer to this hand shake the peace that the south korean president called it a little bit earlier in that press conference but rob as well as were watching. President moon address his south korean Border Guards with president next to him you were talking us through just how far apart both sides the u. S. And north korea are in terms of any form. Yes thats right they still remain miles apart and it was the failure i think that surprised everyone at hanoi of that particular summit just to go back to the pictures we are watching here where i think this was on the schedule that as well as going to the deed did to militarize own and the obviously the most important part of this will be the expected meeting with kim jong un they would be meeting some of the troops up there i think they mentioned that in their press conference i believe these pictures are coming from one of the Service Buildings close to pam and jump village not from one of the blue huts itself but yes as you said there everybody is hoping that possibly this could lead to some sort of resumption of talks a lot of the criticism of this whole process has been that it has been very much top down its been 2 rather impetuous leaders agreeing to meet without having done an awful lot of the power tree work by their teams at lower levels but the beauty of a top down approach is you can tweet something on a saturday morning and the next day a sunday afternoon be meeting with the person to whom you tweeted that and that seems to be what is happening here remains to be seen of course where it might lead from here we now seem to be watching President Trump i think delivering a few remarks through an interpreter to some of the so troops the south korean troops that he is addressing and waiting to see where it goes from here it will be interesting to see in the press conference that was given earlier moon j. N. Of south korea. Im going to have. Lets just listen to what President Trump is saying to the troops there. Continues all right we thought we had. Everything. All right so was there president from we believe in one of the Service Buildings near the joint security area the famous blue hot season actually there yet. We saw hes there saying if he was this apparently was on the itinerary for the trip hes there addressing some south korean Border Guards and also meeting with other troops there in one of the Service Buildings which is just next to the famous blue hots up the joint security zone were still waiting for the arrival of the north Korean Leader kim jong il. So theyre just having a chat inside the Service Building lets cross over now back to james bays james so were still. Playing the waiting game here if you like and its interesting because you were urging caution because were pretty much now on the North Koreans schedule just talk us through what you think the choreography will be james. Well if you dont mind aaron i hate to do this im going to correct you chris information has come to me this is not actually in one of those Service Buildings theyve gone a bit further away south of humble john to camp 21st thats where the troops say many of the troops who were guard the joint security area why is it called camp on a 1st this is an interesting story it was kept in our football at 1st and the tenant Mark Barratts who were killed in 1976 arguably the moment when north korea and the u. S. Got the closest to war all of the period since the armistice was signed thats after north korean troops came into the d. M. Z. And knocked down the tree and the u. S. Objected to that and it led to these 2 u. S. Servicemen being killed and led to a moment where it looked like war could start again and the interesting postscript to this story is among those who were serving there in 1976 was a Young Special forces soldier from the south korean army called moon hes now president moon standing next to President Trump there is ironic james what i mean youve been to the joint security area before james just just describe for us just talk us through the geography of whats there and what were expecting to happen when when president doesnt leave camp bonifas to head back to or to head to the day or say to meet him. These are all relatively small distances and certainly if you were one of the troops you wouldnt be travelling necessarily in a vehicle youd probably be walking but President Trump being hes the u. S. President and president moon will i think continue to travel in a motorcade from camp bonifas back to the blue hearts the hearts that straddle the dividing a law and it was between those hearts in april last year the president moon went on the south korean side when chairman kim was on the other side and they cross shook hands across that dividing line and then 1st we saw kim go to the south korean side historic 1st time north Korean Leader a guard to the south korean side since the end of the korean war in 1953 and then we saw the south korean president thats not the 1st time a south korean had been on north korean soil but still a historic moment a similar historic moment is what were expecting although certainly President Trump originally under the original schedule was about to get on his helicopter again in about 510 minutes and head back latest information from south korean media. To keep you on tenterhooks here daryn is that trump will meet kim in 4 minutes from now were being told so at half past the hour were expecting to see this meeting between the 2 whether that time will slip not not entirely sure but as i described that meeting in april of standing at this very spot while we watch those historic pictures at the time we expected to be something similar of course then the meeting went on and on and on they had various meetings around a table in one of the buildings there they went for a warm long walk just the 2 of them across the. Bridge and strolling around the joint security area were not expecting according to President Trump it to be anything like that long and i think the secret service would get very nervous if it went on too long the plan is for President Trump to helicopter out of here reasonably soon and then the plan is that when he is back in seoul well have another meeting at another military base because he wants to address u. S. Troops and that will involve a speech and i think the president trouble want to speech because he will want the American Media remember it were in the middle of the night in the u. S. You want the American Media when they wake up with their breakfast shows not only have the picture of him and kim and potentially him walking in stepping into north korea they want his words about it as well President Trump cares about the the pictures the optics the f. E. I. Tricks of this he cares about the domestic political implications of it but clearly its a very important moment for the Korean Peninsula being watched very closely by South Koreans id love to know the audience watching the pictures that you are seeing will find that out at a later stage and certainly in north korea where you only have to t. V. Channels which both are totally state controlled this will be once the pictures are edited in the way that the North Koreans want to present the narrative they will be iran and im sure most North Koreans who have televisions which of course is not all North Koreans will see them you know james and as were were on the countdown clock now waiting for this handshake which we think will happen in the next few minutes or so weve lost live pictures our technology gremlins seem to be creeping in well well come back to the live pictures james as soon as we can because you can see them also as i can see them you were talking about President Trump. Theyre perhaps stepping over into north korea let me ask you james how comfortable will the u. S. President be stepping over that line into north korea as the south korean president moon j and did in april 27th seen as youve outlined because this time around as weve seen from some of the live pictures there the security and logistics are not salute nightmare james. I would love to know what is going on the bar hind the scenes and what has been arranged behind the scenes because you have a president ial security meeting one of the most. Geo political hot spots in the world and diplomatic protocol you cant just go to the other side to get ready for the president ial visit you have to be invited i wonder how many u. S. Servicemen are already waiting on north korean soil i wonder how Many Secret Service agents will be in waiting because the u. S. Secret service one of the oldest Law Enforcement agencies in the u. S. Is there to protect the president weve all seen the hollywood movies and theyre prepared to take a bullet for their president so this will be a very well planned hastily planned moment for the u. S. Secret service for the u. S. Forces in korea when we see this happen in a few moments time the technical difficulties come from the fact there are only are a few cameramen allowed there and they are the live pictures coming from south korean t. V. If youre losing the pictures in the coming in the now its there and i think i can see south korean t. V. So if something happens when youre not seeing the pictures i will if i see something i will let you know all right james you may have to you may have to does jump in there if you can see the handshake because currently were looking at pictures from a few moments ago james in terms of the Bigger Picture despite the lack of any diplomatic preparation for the meeting in terms of the the broader picture how much could this meeting in terms of its significance perhaps help to reset relations between the u. S. And north korea. We have a faltering diplomatic process. People were worried they were st