As he goes into it. However when you contrast it to what the president has said up to tonight. Here is how the administration has been describing its goal for the singapore talks. North korea has the opportunity to end decades of poverty and oppression by following the path of denuclearization. The conversation is going to be focused on denuclearization in the peninsula. The goal and the purpose of the conversations is to have denuclearization of the peninsula. The denuclearization of the korean peninsula. The president has laid out to what he wants to see as a commitment to denuclearization. I will be meeting with kim jongun in the coming weeks as we seek to denuclearize the area
and the entire korean peninsula. The stated goal and now, not so much. I think it is a gettingtoknowyou meeting plus. There is another one. Whatever else you might think of the summit, that sounds like a different agenda. Human rights might not be on the agenda either. Here is the president talking about toda
be about today for the first time he said it is really just a get-to-know-you meeting. that is not abnormal. keep in mind the iranian nuclearizations cook two years. so that is typical. but this president given the strong impression that there would be more, more crucially is a re-defining of the white house s own expectations prior to the meeting. white house officials said that the u.s. wanted some grand gesture to demonstrate how serious north korea is about this. we don t know what that gesture is. and on the issue of denuclearization, he said today he thinks they want to denu denuclearization. that is not a commitment before you go into these talks.