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
side about. exactly what is to be done by whom and when. this is barely laid out. so as you said, if this were a game, this would be maybe the top of the first, joe. there s a lot of baseball to come here. i think the one to me concerning thing was the apples and oranges part of the president s position. north korea talked aspirationally about denuclearization, but the united states offered up something tangible which was the suspension of all military exercises and as best i can tell, those exercises, which are part of our conventional military deterrent, they were never meant to be a response to north korea s nuclear or missile force, i don t see anyone talking about much less doing something about the conventional military threat that north korea poses to south korea, the tens of thousands in artillery and the like. what this seems to be is ultimately very much a trumpen summit, emphasis on the istry and personal relationship, and yet again, a
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 jong-un? does that include reducing military capabilities and just to follow up on your answer no, we re not reducing anything. at some point i have to be host and i used to say this
met. i was taken aback by the north korean flags and american flags de by side. we aren t side by side, we aren t equals to each other and this conferred power to kim jong-un that i don t believe he has yet earned in terms of the respect from the united states. that comes through building that relationship. as far as the agreement, i went back and looked at the previous agreements. the 1992 north/south agreement on joint declaration on denuclearization was specific no nukes, no facilities, inspections. the agreed framework done by bob g gallucci was very specific, close down the reactor until we get light water reactors, non-proliferation proof. what chris hill did was extraordinary. the verifiable denuclearization of the korean peninsula, verifiable in the september 2005 deal and it broke down over
war. so in that sense i think it s positive. but the problem is, neither of these two leaders have a reputation for following through so, you know, there are supposed to be negotiations that pompeo will lead. they didn t name who would be the leader on the north korean side which is kind of urbing. and they are trying to implement these very broad principles where you can run a mack truck through these things. just by way of comparison the last agreement the north korean agreed to abandon all nuclear weapons, existing nuclear programs and return to the nonproliferation treaty at an early date. there was a time frame and abandoning nuclear weapons. here we have a broad statement about denuclearization of the korean peninsula, something the north koreans have been saying for decades. joe? yeah. you know, mi let m answer that for you. you know, we get paid on this show to try to predict how americans are going to respond politically to events and, of