launched, so this would mark the fifth and sixth missile launched tested in the last two weeks. the u.s. has tried so many times, so many different administrations from both parties to stop north korea s nuclear program advancement and failed. is there any way to do that still? well, we have had eight international denuclearization agreements. they all failed. that doesn t mean we don t try for a ninth. that doesn t mean we learn from the lessons of the past that were short, vague, poorly crafted agreements. we need stronger verification measures and stronger details more like the arms control agreements we had with the soviet union but as we wait for north korea to come back to the negotiating table and biden administration like the predecessors tried diplomacy and north korea is rejecting it, we need to maintain enforcing u.n. resolutions and laws and maintain a detoerrence and
new low in trump s presidency. meanwhile, in russia vladimir putin is getting universal praise for how he handled things. i want to bring in nbc chief foreign correspondent richard engel and retired admiral stavridis. richard, let me start in moscow. the russian defense ministry is already announcing they re ready to act on agreements they say were made with trump, something that wasn t brought up at all yesterday. do you know anything about what s going on? reporter: it is somewhat vague, what exactly they re trying to talk about what exactly these agreements are. if you listened to that press conference yesterday, and i think the whole world did, there weren t a lot of specifics. we thought maybe there would be specifics about crimea, about u.s. troop presence in syria. but it seemed like the russians want to go forward about denuclearization agreements that
congressman, are those positive steps? i think they re all p.r. image building than positive steps. i wish i could say they were positive steps. but we can t have amnesia about the past. there were three denuclearization agreements reached with north korean, all of which they breeched in 1994, 2004 and 2012, releasing hostages, they did that many times in the past. they did it under president obama, under bill clinton s and george bush s tenure. this is not a new phenomenon. as to blowing up the test site or allowing the press in to watch that, barbara s report before our interview makes it very clear there are serious doubts about the legitimacy of that video. if they re willing to lie about that, what confidence can we have in any assurance he gives in the june 12th summit. the fact they suspended their
denuclearization agreements previously with north korea that that regime has essentially voided. we should also note two things, those american prisoners released from north korea and arriving back in the united states thursday were able to leave the medical center today, they were reunited with their families. and one other quick thing, fred, happy mother s day. aw, thank you so much. boris sanchez at the white house, appreciate it. here to discuss, gail mclaron, good to see you all. we saw two key players in the administration talk about objectives ahead of the summit with north korea. let s listen to national security adviser john bolton. i think what the prospect for north korea is to become a normal nation, to behave and interact with the rest of the world the way south korea does. and then we ve got a secretary of state mike pompeo
well, i was glad to hear that kim jong-un will be well briefed. i hope president trump is well-briefed. he doesn t read anything and doesn t have a poll team in place. we don t have an ambassador in seoul. we don t have the secretary for the region. we ve got a brand new secretary of state and a brand new national security adviser. so i m a little nervous about how well briefed our leader is going to be. having said that, i think we need to tone down the expectations for singapore. we have had denuclearization agreements in 1994, in 2005, and a bilateral in 2012. all them collapsed after agreeing because the north koreans renigged. and we need to look at denuclearization, absolutely verifiable through inspections. if we don t meet the simple