position between south korea and north korea. a considerable level of trust between these leaders, since -- seems to be established. talks through the exchanges. a certain to have confidence this moment some may be quite serious. withe in negotiation president trump. anticipate something positive afterwords. .his is their sense we are not sure because we have not seen the outcomes. this is the decision. the north korean leader hopes to shift to economic development thethe completion of military and the economy. on third one is confidence domestic probabilities with south korea. are focusingt they on how to improve between the south and north korea. the main focus is to build a better relationship with south korea. is -- he triede over for the left north korea summit. south korean government, particularly president moon credit tonts to give president trump. we didn't have any detail guidelines or policies about denuclearization. just basic principles and may be policy directions. over forerything left the u.s. north korea summit.

the fifth one, in the past the south korea always blamed north korea. they agreed on declarations and agreements but they never kept those aagreements. this time kim jong-un raised that issue. we have adopted so many agreements and declarations but they were never kept and implemented. this time we wish to keep our agreements so that we do not lose face. and that's very interesting development on the part of north korea. also they had become much more specific. in the past they adopt declarations. then as details they would this time the talk about specific scattering of korean months. for example, this month in may, north-south korea will have high level talks and military talks and general level military talks and those talks will be continued and there will be reunion of separate families between north and south and either september, october, president moon will be visiting pamunjom. there is difficult the scheduling. that is really aspect separate pan munjom summit from the other summits. if you look at this kind of differences you can come up with

we have the meetings between north korea and south korea. we have the meetings with north korea and china. we have the upcoming meeting with the u.s. and north korea. a lot of this would've happened if we do not think it was possible. happened if weve did not think it was possible. what is the point of doing all this if we cannot have denuclearization? the table is set, the time is right. we have had everyone do their thing with threats. now, let us step back and do what we need to do to make sure that we can come to some decisions and agreements on denuclearization. understanding the past is important. but it should not prevent you from making progress in the future. for that reason, i know you will all vote for the motion that negotiation can lead to negotiation with north korea. [applause] john: thank you, bonnie jenkins. our next debater will be speaking against the motion. negotiations can denuclearize north korea. that is mira rapp-hooper, scholar at yale law. ladies and gentlemen, mira rapp-hooper. [applause] mira: there is no bargain

policy of aggression towards north korea as a professor hung about it the axis of evil north korea's place along with iran and iraq in the axis of evil and so as much as you want to see interest in progress it will always be constrained and greatly. in have to negatively impacted by u.s. hostility towards north korea so we have to see these two parallel tracks taking place and i think just bring it back to what the south koreans and u.n. has been saying is we want both denuclearization and pursuit of the peace treaty to go side by side and that we are not going to see the denuclearization of north korea and north korea giving up is when deterrence unless they have guaranteed security and that's going to come in the form of concrete steps including the removal of. and normalize relations between the u.s. and north korea one of the things we'd be remiss if we didn't bring up today is human rights because so many of our community members are discussing that disappear one person on twitter says if monday and truly wants to help north korea human rights talk is inevitable another person e

korea. i want to bring in david preece, a former cia officer, who is going to help us understand this. this is breaking, david. what do you make of this? >> if on someone could have anticipated this because almost literally every expert anticipated this. this is what all of the korean negotiators had said -- >> thattes not goi eit not goin smoothly as -- >> specifically that the north koreans are going to find an advantage. we haven't seen signs have changed and this is more evidence that they've played the same games they've played before where we've gone through cycles that they pretended to walk back but then want concession after concession -- >> does this seem arbitrary to you? >> i expect now there is an investment of the president of the united states. he's committed to these talks, he said great things are happening. he's not talking about little rocket man anymore, he's talking about his legacy of being able to do something that president obama could not do. once north korea knows h

korea and north korea, for the first time, on the soil of south korea, they bombard. this is how terrible the south korean situation is. north korea's military strip. let me escape out of this. ok. south korea's policies, limit -- let me briefly introduce the policies. became the jae president, our conservative president always pursued a kind of peace. when people look at their policies in detail, they seem to -- in terms of south korea. north korea was hostile to the idea of conservative government. jae's government paid special attention to the -- and the greater unification by peaceful means. this is the basic line of north korean policies. throughout the nuclear crisis on on the peninsula there are four kinds of ideas around or in korea about north korea's change. the first idea is the collapse school. the government represents the kind of idea. the second school is neglect. i think the moon governments belongs in the -- course. even though many south korean , or maybe people in washington, d.c., they isieve the jae government inherited from kim jong-un. i can say

it's not south korea it's not one of the two koreas and it doesn't have the leverage or the clout that china. or the united states does so japan's interest is really in staying relevant in north korea policy game and in a way that benefits when tensions are higher between the united states and north korea because it has been an advocate of the pressure again pain and it is a friend to the hardliners in the ministration. mr coe how is still looking on at what's happened president when jay and said that he was perplexed but what does the cancellation of the summit if anything mean for north south relations well that's a good question there has been a statement coming out of the presidential blue house today that despite this enormous setback south korea has continued to try and get these important parties to do he's process talking at the same time to go going to government will continue to remain committed to improving relations with north korea which according to its own vision was supposed to include significant economic aspects as well the question though at this juncture is where th

forces in south korea and offshore of south korea. that is going to raise the question, perhaps as early as the summit, subsequently certainly -- what should our response be to that? do we agree to that? or do we basically tell the north, there will have to be taken in terms of agreements and implementation regarding denuclearization before we could begin to talk about u.s. troops? or, you might say, u.s. troops are off the table completely in a denuclearization negotiation? what kind of thinking do you think we should be doing about this? i think this is very crucial. >> chris hill -- >> chris hill has related that he was told throughout the talks, you americans eventually are going to have to come to terms with the issue of u.s. troops with us. that time is about here. as a military person, i don't think we can sacrifice readiness. we have to maintain the rok military capabilities. inould not make any changes u.s. for status contingent on north korea's nuclear status, and on the dismantlement, but they could be discussed as part of

in south korea there is enormous hope that a seismic shift in the relationship between the two koreas is afoot. because of all the global attention i believe the unification move forward to government is making efforts and i think people are rooting for it. but there is also skepticism and a wait and see approach. is a priest and an activist who participates in frequent protests that she disagrees with president moon's policy of engagement with north korea she worries he's giving kim concessions without compromises in fact she doubts the legitimacy of moon's presidency she says his predecessor president park geun hay was unfairly impeached and removed from office in twenty seventeen in the largest corruption scandal in south korean history. unknown is she knew he lovato. was a cadaver dog major term other would you know able to pick each pair tom tom are you there i'd like to talk a little bit if you don't mind about north korea and the attitudes and feelings that you grew up with with regard to the country later on and to true things even are now under your i wonder you get there wyn

i'm from democratic party of korea. as, we are facing north korea-u.s. summit i am very honored to be here. i will provide an assessment of the inter-korea summit. you've seen stories about the success of the summit and expectations for the upcoming u.s.-north korean summit. i believe president moon's vision of peninsula driver was a major factor in carrying us this far. perhaps you've seen the news, . during the summit meeting kim and moon agreed to complete the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. perhaps you have seen the news, former first lady lee told president moon he should receive the nobel peace prize. president moon responded the peace prize should go to president trump, we will take the peace instead. the response highlights the good intentions of president moon. last year president moon gave the party a speech in which he spoke of his vision for peninsula driver and since he has followed through, followed through. during the pyeongchang olympics, he made room for the participation of north korea, by delaying a u.s.-south korea joint mil

these three americans on the early foreign nationals being held in north korea south korea pushing for the release of six of its citizens japanese nationals are also being held against their will in north korea. that's right that's something that japan has often brought up of course we often talk about the geopolitics around the situation even though of course it must be said these are human beings that are being held in north korea first and foremost the families of the americans the south koreans the japanese who remain in north korea really want to see their safe return but when it comes to japan for some part it had been sidelined in the discussions around north korea when the u.s. said that it was open to a summit with north korea that kind of went along with that path of engagement and dialogue that the south korean president and the had long been per pushing and indeed that china had long been pushing whereas japan had been talking about keeping the campaign of maximum pressure and sanctions against north korea so lately the japanese prime minister shinzo ave has been involved i

this is the first time north korea has heard about this? >> north korea, the june 12 summit is off. trump sending a letter to kim jong-un and he says, you talk about your nuclear capabilities but ours are so massive and powerful that i prayed to god this will never happen to you. wonderful dialogue had happened and it is only that dialogue that matters. he said he felt that inappropriate at a time when the north korean leader was also discussing his own nuclear capability. this as ongoing nuclear capabilities of china and japan continue and it comes at a time when president is receiving praise on capitol hill. senator marco rubio, a frequent critic of the trade policies ofo echoing his support this. >> we can see the reaction instantaneously. the s&p 500 down the same. this seems like an absolute breakup letter. this is it, it is not happening. >> the narrative before this meeting was, don't count on this meeting really happening. what is surprising, what the president was criticized for was agreeing to the meeting so quickly and now it seems like cooler heads prevailed. these are t

and north korea. the pipe has many loopholes, and many funds or goods diverted to government programs. there are so many loopholes. because china is constraining the entire flow the amount of , water leaked from the pipe appears to be small, but once the overflow levels return to the previous volume, we will have the same problems. north korea, they are connecting -- their agents are connecting to programs for illegal procurement activities. they are still there. north korean nationals are living in luxurious apartments and are still there. i don't know why. north korean possessing cambodian passports and traveling around the world. no government stops the activity effectively. dialogue, thethe international community has never been good at implementing effective sanctions, so this relates to the future of the regime. it's not only about north korea but how do we take control of risk of the verging many commercial quantities of technology? no country in the world has been good. i see no good examples

south korea. [ [ inaudible question ] >> i will guarantee his safety, yes. we will guarantee his safety and we've talked about that from the beginning. he will be safe. he will be happy. his country will be rich. his country will be hard working and very prosperous. they are very great people. they are hard working great people. look at what happened with south korea. don't forget, we helped south korea. we have spent trillions of dollars, not billions, trillions of dollars over many, many years. we helped south korea. and south korea is one of the most incredible countries in terms of what they do. you know that, that is where you are, that is where you're from. same people, same people. so, yeah, i think that he will be extremely happy if something works out. and if it didn't woit doesn't w honestly, he can't be happy, but he has a chance to do something that maybe has never been done before. and i think that it would be -- if you look 25 years into the future, 50 years in to the future, he will

we helped south korea. and south korea is one of the most incredible countries in terms of what they do. you know that. that is where you are. that is where you are from. same people. same people. so, yeah, i think that he will be extremely happy if something works out. and if it doesn't work out, honestly he can't be happy. but he has a chance to do something that maybe has never been done before. i think it would be, if you look 25 years into the future, 50 years into the future, he will be able to look back and be very proud of what he did for north korea. and actually for the world. but he will be very proud of what he did for north korea. >> reporter: mr. president, what do you want to ask president moon about his own summit? [speaking korean] [speaking korean] >> president trump: just to finish that, because it's a very important question. south korea, china, and japan, and i have spoken to all three. one i happen to have right here. they will be willing to help and i believe invest very, very large s

it would be a great thing for north korea. if that happens, it will be a great thing for north korea. most importantly it would be a great thing for the world. >> bill: you would probably agree with that be a great thing for the world. the north koreans say we will not beg to sit with you. you called us, we did not call you. what do you think of that rhetoric? >> i think reality is that they have attempted to slow negotiations every time in the past any time there has been an attempt to reach some kind of an accord. they've cheated on every agreement. the difference this time is we have maximum sanctions on and we haven't lifted them and as long as we don't lift those sanctions, as long as we stay focused on the necessity of getting an agreement with tough inspections, with our ability to get inspectors on the ground that ends their icbm nuclear weapons program and capability of launching a nuclear weapon on the united states we'll be closer to the objective of this administration, which is denuclearize north korea. >> bill: w

coming together how does this change the situation on the peninsula if north korea and south korea can find some kind of meaningful and let me stress meaningful reproach moment go ahead in washington. let me in response to your question laid out right over here that the real credit for the what the situation the opportunity that we have today is because of president mungy in south korea you know if we had a the same or a conservative south korean government in place today what would have happened is kim jong un would have gone through with his condense testing schedule and then after that he would have gone straight into his bunker emerging from time to time with grave threats and snarly garley threats to blow everything up the fact of the matter is that moon is the person who has been able to tease kim jong il kim jong il on out it. into the sunshine and has an open and shone in the pot through it to global integration and as well as not science reconciliation. in the south korean progressive government has the lead this process for reconsideration which has dramatically altered the d

-south korea military alliance? is that still the place if north korea is in the peace treaty with the united states does though legality of the alliance still stand? that's one issue. the other issue is we hear a lot of this linkage that china is making, the lake is between a broader u.s.-china relations and the linkage of what china's position north korea really is. i do see that on both sides because remember a year ago president trump's position was that if china cooperates with us on south korea, the trade deal, they would get much better. guess what one year later it's not that much better. so for the chinese they feel there's a strong sense of grievance unappreciative that china did deliver on north korea but the trade deal is as bad as was mentioned. i think there's a transactional issue here that both sides are avoiding to talk about that isn't there. >> let go back to jenny and then katsu for whatever thoughts they want to share, the things you left unsaid that you are dying to say today. >> i think i said

is that -- >> north korea has enough. >> one thing south korea north korea agreed in the declaration, but there's unspoken part which we don't have a fulltext is that the west coast where there were neighbors skirmishes happen, there are a lot of small islands just like already exist natural atolls, are there. now it's included and basically water, air, ground, all the confrontational manners and behaviors should change. so there could be an interesting deploy of our post, but not like china. because north korea kim has a focus in word to make every angry elites and people to be satisfied with the economic development. >> thank you so much, everyone. we are out of time but wataru, katie and sue, thank you so much for being on this panel. [applause] >> you get to speak again after the summit. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this fors and asian securityn a short break on another panel of speakers gets set up. while we wait for that abou

, the united states, south korea, japan and north korea, all aimed at preventing north korea from getting nukes. we've given them enormous amounts of money, enormous amounts of resources and they have nukes. what happened? >> i think that the united states had other priorities, and so what we did was we put north korea almost all the time at the bottom of the list, and so, of course, the north koreans were able to just basically lie, cheat and steal, and we weren't paying that much attention. there were only certain moments that we're concerned. for instance, 1994, when we almost went to war. but you know during the administration of george w. bush, you know, they spent a lot of time on north korea, but for them, the most important thing was integrating china into the international system. the bush administration put, for instance, china at the center of the six-party talks, and because of that, you know, we sort of got an arrogant beijing because we fed their notions of self-importance, and we got a nukedup north korea. so you know you get to the obama era, and basically it's in the too-

it is up to north korea and i suppose south korea what you're doing together. i saw this morning north korea put out a statement, they have a problem with south korea's leadership. we'll continue to monitor that. and the president, you know very much likes the fact that based on his leadership that and his team, including secretary of state pompeo going over there two times, that north korea has already suspended some of their exercises. but this president made very clear, denuclearizing the korean peninsula is in everybody's best interests. brian: kellyanne, i understand they have not reached formally out to you guys. north korea has not formally reached out, registered any complaints about john bolton's words or about military exercises. all this has been done through the media. is that correct? >> well i say this about that since i will not confirm or deny that. i will tell you this so much is litigated in media and gets repeated and retweeted without verification. some people call it fake news. i refer to it uninformed conjecture, speculation. it is dangero

and north korea. making the case that they are already getting things, and north korea has not done anything yet, but i am not sure how far they want to get ahead of the process. >> another question. >> thank you. so i just have a kind of moral question for the people that are for the proposition. the third time that we are kind of negotiating this. i think that there is a lot of bluster in this administration without tryingt to bias the audience. and what i think is impossible to get a complete denuclearization of north korea. you think that you can -- >> can you -- , so inoral question is the 1990's, you had a lot of people serving, and millions of people died because of sanctions, actions on the part of the international community to get them to the table. i think that happened again. >> no more exposition. get your question, sir. >> my question with this run-on sentence with a lot of comments, use theset moral to things as a bargaining chip when you have somebody who is in a position where he thin

about north korea. has not changed. about canada i have not changed i guess kenneth bae an evangelical christian who was arrested in two thousand and twelve while leading into a group through north korea he was later charged with planning to overthrow the government and sentenced to fifteen years hard labor it's yet another cause of friction and dennis finds himself under pressure as a personal friend of kim jong un's to help push for by his release and then as if that wasn't enough for dennis to contend with just one day before he's due to fly out this happens. despicable human scum worse than a dog that's how north korean state media described the once powerful uncle uncle of north korean leader kim jong un has been executed for trying to overthrow the government reports from north korea tonight say the second most powerful man in the country has been executed jang song tek the uncle of the country's leader had already been stripped of all his powers today in military tribunals ordered his execution after he was found

intend to war with south korea. what matters is the capabilities. capabilities. we are not going to see any diminution of the capabilities in the north or south for quite some time the good news is the south doesn't have the conventional military capabilities to affect unification on their terms. the other good news is the south koreans have a strong u.s. ally at their the back. i'm not so worried about the north koreans sort of having to disarm as a prerequisite for peacemaking. i think it's an unrealistic expectation. i think there should be and will need to be some kind of a piece declaration, peace regime established early in the process. it's going to have to involve china because not only did the chinese general signed the armistice agreement but you just can't practically ended the korean war without china's support. eventually the chinese want to sign on the dotted line and they will be crucial in providing security assurances to north korea that gives north korea the confidence to proceed down a peace proce

and north korea on the one hand and north korea stance on the other hand and he was communal and was i would say even forced to travel to china twice in the last four weeks to explain his policy and now it seems that china has made very clear to him that he's allowed to approach the united states but on terms which which are in china's interest and here the key question is what is the future of the u.s. military presence in south korea i think nobody expects a full withdrawal complete withdrawal of the foreseeable future but maybe weather and. trucks a real change or a tremendous fire reduction we should say of course china a traditionally a close ally of north korea all right mark has come from the german institute for international security affairs thank you very much for your and your right now to some other stories making headlines around the world the netherlands and australia say they are holding russia were sponsible for shooting down malaysia airlines flight m h seventeen nearly four years ago the announcement is likely to lead to legal action it comes after investigators sai

to south korea. and japan. and they are not only ready should foolish or reckless acts be taken by north korea they are willing to shoulder much of the cost of any financial burden the strongest sanctions ever. and maximum pressure campaign will continue our military as you know has been greatly enhanced will soon be at a level it's never been before if and when kim jong un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue and action. i am way. nobody should be anxious we have to get it right but. also coming up thirty five years ago voters in ireland decided to make abortion practically impossible so they changed the constitution now in a national referendum the irish may decide that they've changed their mind. my daughter was never going to have a life she was never going to exist in this world in which she was never counted catus chance to live like to talk to tell me she wasn't going to be able to breathe i was protecting her making the choice and his protecting her from pain. we begin the day with a pr

in south korea there is enormous hope that a seismic shift in the relationship between the two koreas is afoot. because of all the global attention i believe reunification for the government is making efforts and i think people are rooting for it. but there is also skepticism and a wait and see approach. is a priest and an activist who participates in frequent protests that she disagrees with president moon's policy of engagement with north korea she worries he's giving kim concessions without compromises in fact she doubts the legitimacy of moon's presidency she says his predecessor president park geun hay was unfairly impeached and removed from office in twenty seventeen in the largest corruption scandal in south korean history. because a cadaver dog major turn mother would you know able to pick it's peer tom-tom are there i'd like to talk a little bit if you don't mind about north korea and the attitudes and feelings that you grew up with with regard to the country later on and to true things even are now under your i wonder you get there when they're twenty nine i'm both overall t

-south korea military drills. to be clear, these are annual drills and they are regularly scheduled. they were resumed in april 4th after delayed sometime for the korean olympics and at the time south korea officials told the u.s. counterparts that north korea, which in the past had protested these exercises and even scheduled missile launches during the exercises had seemed in their words, surprisingly flexible this time around so this threat now to scudle those summit plans a change in tact from the north korean leadership and you may remember there was a short time ago the president himself said in late april that north korea had been in his words, very honorable in planning for the summit. have a listen. >> so we're having very good discussions. kim jong-un was -- he really has been very open and i think very honorable from everything we're seeing. now a lot of promises had been made by north korea over the years. but they've never been in this position. >> of course north korea did fulfill the promise to rele

right now we are looking at two korea's, two very successful korea's. you can have a successful north korea and you already have a successful south korea. south korea was in a condition as bad as north korea when they started this experiment that worked out well for them. now you look at samsung and lg and the ships they are building. when i was over there, i flew over plants that are incredible. see two korea's and ultimately maybe someday, it would not be now, but maybe they will get together and go back to one korea. that would be ok with me, too. as long as they both wanted that. thank you all very much. thank you. >> how do you anticipate -- ate buys theagain, tremendous amount of parts for their telephones. the fourth largest in the world. they buy from american companies. immediately when i looked at it was my administration a close them down. when i looked at it i said, they can pay a big price for that -- a big price without damaging american companies, which they are. you're talking about tremendous amount of money and jobs. large -- newvery m

takes a robust stance with north korea and calls in its traditional ally south korea saying that it should stand firm against north korea come what may and people started to talk about what happens if there is some sort of standoff or confrontation that puts obviously south korea in a very tricky very difficult position real contrast to the kind of the kind of improving relations that they've been enjoying for the previous few months ok we're up for the moment many thanks. at least six people have been killed and twenty two were injured after a car bomb exploded in the eastern libyan city of benghazi local sources say it happened behind otel near a syrian products market indonesia's parliament is expected to pass anti terror legislation which will give more power to the army the change in the law follows a series of recent suicide bomb attacks ascott high the reports now from the capital jakarta. it's been more than two years in coming but indonesia's latest anti-terrorism bill is expected to become law on friday a series of recent suicide bomb attacks renewed focus just last week more tha

korea to the north korean people after vilifying the u.s. for so long. well they will portray it as the result of the peerless genius of their leader kim jong un you know ears fashion the summit he's brought the u.s. to a summit through is careful diplomacy and of course the military power that he has consolidated for the democratic people's republic of korea so that will be how they how they spin it domestically. really it's interesting to watch how it's being spun on the u.s. side. several hints dribs and drabs coming out the last couple weeks about where it might be and when the summit might be and yet very little confirmation so we're having to do a bit of tea leaf reading with both north korean and u.s. media under a really good to talk to you many thanks indeed for being with us you're looking at live pictures there from the joint base andrews this is ours iraq with live coverage of. the three americans freed from prison in north korea have just landed at the joint base andrews in maryland president donald trump there to receive the le

forces in korea. with regards the information agreement, that practice was not so, the japaned team being a contingency from time to time, so frustrating. that oh, we don't get direct information from the counterparts south korea. and even u.s. forces in korea. such a dialogue was solved. i asked korea, let's set up a meeting. between military and japan, that was smooth and set up. u.s.,n south korea and already set up. but on our side, it was not formalized at this moment. however, we really needed and we asked. the u.s. side was easy. but the korean side had a huge pressure. the exercise was really helpful, however, i remember is the korean side spokesperson said we are prisoners of public opinion. challenge as to how the korean government can cooperate with japan. and i think that is a big lesson. there is a big lesson we have learned. two, plus two plus two, big help. for the setting up of sharing information and strategy and sometimes, itso, is very good for creating trust. it was a big achieveme

to experience it done of reporting from north korea to see. you know a rare journalistic look inside north korea while on the same day as destroyed its nuclear facility donald trump said that he wouldn't be meeting with kim jong il a schedule summit in june where just the following day he backed away from that statement. we'll see what happens with. that very much wanted we'd like to work with you. decided to terminate the plan summit in singapore in june twelfth. everybody you know that you know that better than anybody who knows what you thought i'd suspect least of all donald trump knows what he thought i mean this is somebody who jumped into that meeting first of all quicker than a ferret supper drainpipe there is no policy behind it this is somebody who is into making headlines and appeasing the base and yesterday that needs to not go down well with his base supporters that he had pulled out of this means thing he'd always seen it as a chance to make peace on the korean peninsula which would be world breaking history and i think you saw y

north korea also counseled a meeting with south korea into test a military exercises being conducted by seoul and washington. history being written only a few weeks ago at the summit of the north and south korean leaders. where pyongyang said it was prepared to denuclearize. but now north korea has put the brakes on that. in a possible sign of growing problems the north perspire a shared jeweled summit with south korea. the reason. the it's the annual us south korea joint military exercises this is taking place south korea was surprised and disappointed by the delay. it's regrettable that north korea has decided to unilaterally postpone you. it also caught us off guard we have not heard anything from that government or the government of south korea to indicate that we would not continue conducting these exercises or that we would not continue planning for a meeting between president trump and kim jong un next month trump has taken credit for shepherding the korean peninsula towards peace here meeting newly freed u.s. citizens who had been held prisoner in north korea their release wa

north korea summit leaving wondering if it's the separates where all but. it's a program the french president joins vladimir putin up the international economic forum in st petersburg where their discussions have ranged from u.s. sanctions strengthening by law for relations we'll have more on the rest of the forum developments. while billionaire philanthropist the belong muska rips into reporters he wants to thoroughly rate journalists credibility but some who've tried before just we're. live from moscow to the world this is r.t. international my name's union o'neill welcome to the program the first pictures showing the destruction of north korea's only nuclear test site have been released our correspondent. was among the small pool of journalists invited to witness the facility being decommissioned. just minutes ago they were having dinner over there and now everything is being turned into a massive cloud of dust those barracks were used for living for the soldiers to al to locate soldiers and workers there well now north korea is showing that it is destro

it's not south korea it's not one of the two koreas and it doesn't have the leverage or the clout that china. or the united states does so japan's interest is really in staying relevant in north korea policy game and in a way that benefits when tensions are higher between the united states and north korea because it has been an advocate of the pressure again pain and it is a friend to the hardliners in the ministration. mr kerr how it fell looking on at what's happened to president hu and jay and said that he was perplexed but what does the cancellation of the summit if anything mean for north south relations well that's a good question there has been a statement coming out of the presidential blue house today that despite this enormous setback south korea has continued to try and get these important parties to do he's process talking at the same time to go going to government will continue to remain committed to improving relations with north korea which according to its own vision was supposed to include significant economic aspects as well the question though at this juncture is whe

this comes after north korea cancelled high level talks with south korea that are scheduled today. sarah sanders is reacting this morning. >> we are hopeful that the meeting will take police and continue down that path. we know we have been prepared they are tough negotiations and the president is ready if the meeting takes place. if it doesn't we'll continue the maximum pressure campaign that is ongoing. >> melissa: john roberts has more on this. john? >> reporter: the president just welcomed the president of uzbekistan to the white house. there is a good chance that the president will address north korea in the oval office very soon. and we'll bring it to you. if the president is in questions, today might be the day. the summit between north korea and the president hopefully still on track. one white house official said this is how they operate. the north koreans citing two reasons why the summit is in jeopardy. the joint military exercises between the united states and south korea even though kim jong-un said he was okay with it. the other, john bolton, the national security adv

and south korea. the u.s. has been floating the idea of economic aid and development if it gives up its nuclear weapons, but today north korea saying it has no interest in such a deal him a sighting the -- in a deal, citing the libya model. north korea certainly not wanting to walk down that path. it will be interesting to see what president trump says in response to hearing this news from north korea. genie: thanks for that, bruce harris reporting for us from seoul. the iranian foreign minister to get aussels guarantee from the european union on keeping the nuclear deal arrive. he spoke with diplomats one week after president trump pulled the u.s. from that deal. needs toa process that be very intensive, and we don't have a lot of time. we need to reach some sort of these benefits can be guerin teed for iran within a specified period -- can guaranteed-- can be for iran within a specific period of time specified by the president. genie: as the iranian foreign minister continues to try to lock in the eu, the ir

of security to north korea they can provide also economic benefits to to north korea of course they cannot completely sums substitute the u.s. but it could be the the core could be moved to china to having a better sense and this comes on the day when we had the reports of journalists going into north korea and seeing tunnels to the supposedly to the north korean nuclear facilities being destroyed so you've got a picture of at least what north korea wants us to think of them trying to get rid of their nuclear weapons research and then you've got the u.s. president canceling a summit with kim jong un so who looks how in this picture i think both sides are to be blamed it's only one side but obviously the north koreans are very much interested in going into the negotiations was an important gesture even though some people say the facilities have been working anyways and that it was an important gesture of good faith by north korea. as they also released the prisoners the u.s. prisoners and all the other things and not so much has been coming back from the u.s. until now and that's wha

president moon of south korea by inviting north korea korea to plicgames was a great ice breaker. let's move forward. the goal is to help facilitate some kind of agreement between north and south korea that we can have a de-escalated and denuclearized korean peninsula. >> our guest with us if you want to ask questions 202-748-800. 1 for republicans and independents 202-748-8002. aside from north korean summit what was your response about the decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal? >> i think it is something we should have never been in that deal. it was an agreement between president obama, john kerry, susan rice and the iranian regime. it was a poorly written deal. we got nothing out of that m. we heard that for the last 35 years. they have already received three prisoners back whereas iran still has american hostages. one of them is the longest held hostage in our history. iran got pretty much everything they wanted. >> some said they were holding up their end of the deal as far as elements of inspections and in light of that why do you support a pull out of it? >> it was

north korea summit we're going to have more global reaction. and why this american boxing champion has been given a posthumous pardon by the president. from a fresh coastal breeze. to watching the sunset on the australian outback. welcome back across central and southern parts of china we've got an area of rain affecting up towards the yangtze river valleys stunning towards shanghai cism heavy downpours are likely here further surfers all working fine for food for hong kong and across in taiwan also looking at conditions further south once you get into vietnam and more particularly into words less then you start to see some pretty heavy showers in those respects as it continues through saturday about staging see the rain extends a bit further towards the south across china affecting chain do and hand as well for southeastern parts of asia we've got germany fine conditions across more northern parts of the philippines so for luzon it should be fine temperature in the mid thirty's there for manila further towards the south so for southern parts o

had said about -- north korea had said about south korea, et cetera. i must say, in watching this press conference, he seemed pretty relaxed. he seemed pretty confident. he seemed pretty positive about it all. he said we'll have to wait and see, maybe it will happen, maybe it won't. he said way more positive things about the prospect of a deal than negative things. he wasn't defensive at all about it. i actually took that as a sign that he's positively disposed that this very well could happen. certainly as hallie says behind closed doors i assure you president moon is telling them everything's good, we've got this, this is going to be great. i'm sure that's the message coming from the south koreans. >> gym, i wajim, the president a change in attitude he witnessed with kim jong-un after that second meeting with china's president. did you notice a change in attitude? >> well, first of all, i noticed that in the press conference. you know, when he is with the foreign leader, it is a roller coaster ride. you never know what's going to happen. this happene

we don't want war with north korea. we need cooler heads to prevail and stick to the strategy of amying pressure and getting them to the table sflmpt. >> reporter: some suggested part of the reason why there have been changes in the president's approval ratings has to do with the fact that we were seeing progress here with north korea. do you think this will hurt the president at home in. >> people want peace. it will hurt the president at home if it seems like we are getting back to the posture we were at before where he is insulting kim jong-un and threatening to use our nuclear arsenal. this seems to be a solvable issue. if we can continue to work with the south koreans, japanese and chinese we can solve this crisis. we should seize that opportunity rather than go back to the childish impulsive behavior. >> i know that the congressman can't hear you. is there a question you would like me to ask here? >> we are talking about north korea. i would love to eric on another big headline happening that we haven't talked abo

we have the meeting between north korea and south korea. we have the upcoming meeting with the u.s. and north korea. what is the point of doing all this if we cannot have denuclearization? the table is set, the time is right. we have had everyone do their thing with threats. now, let us step back and do what we need to do to make sure that we can come to some decision and agreement on denuclearization. understanding the past is important. important. it should not convince you to not make progress in the future. for that reason i know you will all vote for the motion that negotiation can >> thank you, bonnie jenkines. our next debater will be speaking against the motion. ladies and gentlemen. [applause] there is no bargain that can fully denuclearize north korea at the negotiating table. that is what you are arguing tonight. opponents can convince you of the opposite, that there is a clear deal that kim jong-un would prefer over his now thenete nuclear arsenal, you should vote for this motion and against our position. thishroughout this debate evening, we ask you to keep in mind one