pyongyang itself is in a separate bubble from the rest of the country. how do people make a living in pyongyang? in theory, north korean are paid for the work they do. but thejob market korean are paid for the work they do. but the job market there operates quite differently from many other economies. there is a system of political and social classification which determines what jobs you can do and how much you get paid. the higher your status, the better your job paid. the higher your status, the better yourjob and your paid. the higher your status, the better your job and your chances paid. the higher your status, the better yourjob and your chances of getting good education and housing. most of pyongyang's consumer classes spend their wages on things that you andi spend their wages on things that you and i would spend our money on. groceries and household appliances, toiletries, that sort of stuff. if it is not available in the shops, it can be found on the for whoever has the cash. as for what money is used in north korea, by all accounts the dollar.

most come from outside pyongyang. where poverty and hunger are widespread. >> north korea in many ways inhabits the 21st century in some places and the 17th century in others. people are literally farming with their hands. >> in the other north korea, the roads and railways are crumbling. the u.n. says almost half the population is hungry and lacks clean water and electricity. in a socialist country where people are supposed to be clothed and fed by the government, most north koreans are now forced to fend for themselves. it looks like the hunger games. >> these markets sprung out of nothing, people started selling anything that they could to make money to support themselves and their families. >> under kim's father, people began selling foods and goods smuggled in from china to survive the famine. >> what began many evolved to massive businesses in north korea. >> kim jong-un has allowed the markets to grow. south korean intelligence estimates that about 40% of the population is now engaged in part of the market econ

in pyongyang, tense of thousands lined the streets. ce to catch a glimpse of a their new leader. >> people believed that he is too young and inexperienced. >> there were real fears that kim jong-un still in his 20s was not up to the job. >> he looked like a boy. there he is sobbing over his father's casket. >> some couldn't believe that he had a cult-like worship. a reaction like this -- >> i don't want to say it is insincere, but let's say the enthusiasm over the top. >> people on the north korea television. it's the question we so often ask about north k is this real? or is it propaganda. watch again. as the camera moves down the line of mourning -- most seem to react only when the camera reaches them. this godfather like drama ran for days on north korean television. it became propaganda. ♪ >> it is the life blood of north korea. and one of the key reasons that the kim dynasty endured. >> north koreans want the kim family to continue ruling north korea. it is about regime survival. >> kim jong-un quickly embraced the first rule of

. -- head back to pyongyang. the whole timetable of the summit has been accelerated after the north koreans said they would head back to pyongyang at about 2:00 in the afternoon. donald trump will have a news conference later about 5:00 p.m., then it is wheels up on air force one back to the united states tonight. he had originally planned to stay until tomorrow in case the summit would be extended. it is not extended. they are wheels up at 7:00 p.m. st lots to get done. ,he big question, will the cvid complete, verifiable, a reversible denuclearization, the real line in the sand for the americans. that they won't budge on. that is the grounds the united states says the north koreans have to meet, at least give a timetable for disarmament before they can consider concessions on sanctions. one thing mike pompeo did say last night is that they are going to be offering some sort e capable of offering some unique proposal in terms of ring security or regime security for the north koreans, wojcicki are the kim jong-un

tensions between pyongyang and washington were running behind the u.s. considered its options. one of the things that was being looked at at that point was the possibility of striking north korea's reactor we knew were was we knew where the facilities were. and so that was looked at very seriously other things that were looked at were even broader military options. at a white house meeting on june sixteenth defense secretary william perry outlined the possible consequences of a military strike i told him that there would be many casualties in south korea as well as american troops there almost a million men. massed on the border and those going then are very close to seoul. troll the greater area so has a population of twenty million people all over and all of them with about i want to two hours drive to the border. and so it would be a disaster. at the same time former president jimmy carter was wrapping up a trip to north korea as part of his effort to resolve the nuclear tensions between washington and pyongyang. literally as the white house was having meetings talking about

a scientific research center located about one hundred kilometers north of pyongyang. by the one nine hundred eighty s. u.s. intelligence agencies were becoming concerned about the development of north korea's nuclear program. but they weren't able to find out much about it. when i was in the intelligence community working in cia we called north korea the hardest of the hard targets i used to work the soviet union and in retrospect that was an open book compared to north korea so you gather tidbits of information you put it together and it's like assembly the jigsaw puzzle with far too few pieces and yet you have to come up with what was the answer on the cover of the box you. we watched the north koreans build a small. covert gas craft fighter moderated nuclear reactor five megawatt hours since a research reactor it's a small reactor but it produces each year in its fuel about five kilograms or so of paternity of enough material for a single mature weapon each each year. at this time north korea had the technical capability to build me a kit weapons. in one thousand n

have you betrayed them by legitimizing the regime in pyongyang? >> i think i've helped them. things will change. there's nothing i can say all i can do is do what i can do. we have to top the denuclearizati nuclearization, and at a certain point maybe you'll be able to ask me a much more positive question but not much i can do right now. at a certain point i believe he's going to do things about it. i think they are one of the great winners today, that large group of people that you're talking about. i think ultimately they'll be one of the great winners as a group. yes, sir, go ahead. go ahead. >> reporter: would you ever consider removing the sanctions without significant improvement in the human rights situation? >> i want to know it won't be happening. and, again, once you start that process there will be a point at which even though you won't be finished for a while because it can't happen scientifically or mechanically but you won't be able to go back. once we reach that point i'll that serious thought. yes, go ahead. >> reporter: mr. president, did you also discuss the

right from inside camp john residence in pyongyang as well that was a north korean delegation was in the u.s. meeting the trumpet ministration they all supposed private letter from kim jong un to president trump who described as very nice however it is not clear whether he read the letter before he faced the newspapers a letter was given to me by him. and that letter was. would you like to see what was in that. how much how much how much it was a very interesting letter and i haven't seen the purposely didn't. have an open i didn't open it in front of the director the letter was passed a truck by a former north korean intelligence chief who was part of a pyongyang delegation in the u.s. the upcoming summit was called off by trump of course because of what he called open hostility and while the talks seem to be on track meantime parallel to this pentagon chief james mattis underlined that pyongyang will only get sanctions relief when it takes irreversible steps to end its nuclear program but experts we spoke to agree that the language of ultimatums is unlikely to solve the situation o

well with pyongyang might result in eight million dead worldwide and yet just as peace talks are on the table between washington and pyongyang a major us news organization quoted unnamed cia official of who seem to claim there was no point in gold trump talking to kim jong un the korean leader has no intention of disarming joining me from virginia is a mutha gehlen prize winner for journalism gath porter author of perils of dominance and balance of power and the road to war in vietnam thanks for coming on going underground what do you make of the cia leaking this information to n.b.c. owned by comcast that north korea won't disarm their nuclear weapons well first of all this this story which is really quite an exercise in dissin for mission by the corporate news media is just one small part of a much larger campaign that has been going on for weeks now and which i think is certainly one of the most important developments surrounding the whole u.s. north korean developing relationship that has occurred so far and that's because i think the corporate media are very very closely aligned wi

translation: yet he still wants to return to pyongyang. translationzlj yet he still wants to return to pyongyang. translation: i discussed it with my family and said i want to go back. she said please go. when good days come, we will meet again. you may say i am brainwashed by socialism, but i am involuntary communist having built my mission in jail. -- a voluntary. it is this kind of conviction which worries right—wing nationalists in south korea. they protest every week in seoul, concerned the aim of north korea is to unify both koreas under one ruler. can you have read like we have enjoyed is now? are there people in north korea as happy as we are? —— freedom. people in north korea as happy as we are? -- freedom. north korea is the worst dictatorship in the world. that kind of dictatorship cannot keep its promise. in promise, will south koreans simply want peace, but not one that comes at a cost? south koreans have overcome a military dictatorship and become a democracy and created an economic miracle. evenif and created an econom

with the united states as i remove resulting success state media framed tuesday's summit as a win for pyongyang is to american concessions including a promised and to that promise and to joint us south korean military exercises critics of the deal have pointed to its vagueness and the fact that it mentions contains no mention of washington's demand for the north's complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. nuclear weapons we never even discussed the other in an interview with the a.b.c. news network following the talks in singapore u.s. president donald trump said it was a big day for the world he also announced that he will freeze military war games with south koreans and i'm doing something that i wanted to do from the beginning we stop playing those war games a cost us a fortune you know we're spending a fortune every number of much we're doing war games with south korea and i said what is costing we're flying planes in from warm and we're bombing empty mountains for practice and i said i want to stop that i will stop that and i think it's very provocative especially george since

and pyongyang. north korean delegation meantime was in the u.s. meeting the trumpet ministration bell supposed to lead a private letter from kim jong il to president trump who described it as very nice however does not actually play with read it on the. the letter was given to me by him you know and that letter was this very nice letter or would you like to see what was in that letter oh you might how much how much how much it was a very interesting letter and i haven't seen the letter you know i purposely didn't know for eleven. i haven't opened it i didn't open it in front of the director the letter was passed to trump by a former north korean intelligence chief who was part of the pyongyang delegation in the u.s. that coming summit was earlier called off of course by trying to do what he called open hostility and while the talks seemed to be back on track meantime pentagon chief james mattis underlined that pyongyang will only get sanctions relief when it takes irreversible steps to end its nuclear program but experts we spoke to agree that tha

amazing that many thought would never happen is addressing pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. i'm sam is a dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up stranded at sea hundreds of migrants who were rescued off the libyan coast find themselves with nowhere to go. and we meet the afghans walking a seven hundred kilometers for the message for their government. after eighteen months of trading insults and threats of nuclear annihilation donald trump and kim jong un have held face to face talks in singapore in the last few moments trump said the meeting went better than anybody could have expected but it's the first time a sitting u.s. president has met a north korean leader. really great to really take you to a lot of progress really very fatherly better than anybody expected comparable to. well i dream brown reports on a historic day that many people thought would never come up in this diplomatic drama here was act one for. getting to know you the handshake to could change the course of history president donald trump it said he'd know within a minute of meeting kim jong u

from inside pyongyang there are numerous foreign cars it's incredible you can find brands from japan which is still considered an arch enemy despite that no one seems to have a problem with japanese luxury cars and products. a strong sign of the changing times smartphones millions have allegedly been brought into north korea through smuggling operations especially across the border from china. and here we can communicate with people in north korea via chinese mobile networks we receive voice mails and videos and go but this only works along the border in a swath about four to six kilometers wide and. overall though these goods don't change the reality of life in north korea remains one of the world's poorest countries. electric car maker tesla is to slash thousands of jobs in an e-mail to staff c.e.o. in long must said the layoffs were necessary for the company to become profitable the cuts which will see nine percent of workers lose their jobs come as the company grapples to address a number of problems including the departure of senior staff and crashes in valving their cars must s

putting an embassy in pyongyang, chris. chris: john roberts reporting from singapore's military air base, john, thank you. now, we want to get the view from inside north korea about this historic meeting. eric is the associated press chief in pyongyang, the only american reporter with a regular posting in north korea. eric, what are you hearing from officials there? what does kim want out of this summit and what is he prepared to give up? >> well, i think the main thing that north korean side wants as they said end to american hostile policy towards their country which is something that they've said they wanted end to for many years now and it's hard to determine exactly what they are looking for but one of the things that normally would be on the table with that kind of thing would be removal of strategic nuclear assets, for instance, aircraft that could be used to attack this country where other things can be use today threaten the security of the regime. that's the main thing that they are after and in return, it's very

in pyongyang i was arrested in the court i found out they objected to a speech i made against worshiping the kim family as god's only god should be worshiped i said that's what i believed so i confessed to the charges i even said i'd been a traitor. and sentenced me to death but then sent me instead to a labor camp for life. it was bitterly cold i had to break up cold and dig with my bare hands in the frozen ground the guards didn't torture me but the verbal abuse was constant. my christian faith was all i had if god wanted me to die i was ready. when my release came in two thousand and seventeen it was such a surprise i was handed over to a canadian delegation took me home i'm so grateful. i'm hopeful there can be peace talks as for me i have no hard feelings against the people who mistreated me north korea eventually will be a better place i know that. much more news of course on our website there it is on your screen all the latest on that historic summit in singapore between donald trump and kynge of the address al-jazeera dot com. also from me for this news about sam is a down is up

this woman could not wait to phone her mum, who was born in pyongyang. "after seeing this, i suddenly thought how i wanted to go back to north korea before i die," she says. "mum, i want your dream to come true. i want you to step back on north korean land." in seoul, moonjae—in admitted he had had a sleepless night but looked jubilant at the meeting, which was partly the result of his careful diplomacy. but donald trump had a surprise for him. he pledged to end what he described as war games, joint military exercises between south korea and the us. they have always angered the north. this will worry neighbouring japan, as will mr trump's suggestion to remove troops from the peninsula in the future. it's a mistake to cancel alljoint us—south korean military exercises. the united states needs to maintain a sufficient level of readiness and preparedness on the peninsula because the north korean nuclear threat is still there. kimjong—un has now signed two agreements to denuclearise — the first was in april — but both lack detail. kim jong—un is

home in pyongyang i was arrested in the court i found out they objected to a speech i made. against worshiping the kim family as god's only god should be worshiped i said that's what i believe so i confessed to the charges i even said i'd been a traitor. and sentenced me to death but then sent me instead to a labor camp for life. it was bitterly cold i had to break up cold and dig with my bare hands in the frozen ground the guards didn't torture me the verbal abuse was constant. my christian faith was all i had if god wanted me to die i was ready. when my release came in two thousand and seventeen it was such a surprise i was handed over to a canadian delegation took me home and i'm so grateful. i'm hopeful there can be peace talks as for me i have no hard feelings against the people who mistreated me north korea eventually will be a better place i know that. just ahead here on that is a grand slam title at last for some of the hot up. be here she did it in schools. uncovering faulty forensic analysis by the f.b.i. more than twenty years ago reports being written without my

these are the threats coming from pyongyang. the japanese would clearly want to united states to stay hardline on that. said,, as mike pompeo that was the ultimate outcome that the united states wants. it is not going to be likely decided today. both sidesct that have decided to end the summit a little earlier than we had anticipated. the united states had kept the option open for having a second day of talks tomorrow. kim jong-un says he will be leaving at about 2:00 this afternoon. back to pyongyang and then back to the united states as donald trump has his press conference. the wheels up on air force one will be at about 7:00. to furtherrelude talks down the road. if they don't hit it off, worst-case outcomes. it was a wild precursor last night with kim going on that nighttime stroll. even before some onlookers were cheering him. interesting stuff there. can we get anything from his mood as we move into the summit? she seems quite jubilant and interested in the economic auto of singapore. independenthey were in 1965. i did so

secretary of state says sanctions on north korea will remain in place until pyongyang can demonstrate what he calls full denuclearize ation state media in pyongyang suggests a different timeline was agreement. has been in south korea briefing regional leaders on this week's summit between president trump and kim jong un hey reports from seoul. after the hype of the summit with the sworn enemy came the explanation to the allies america's top diplomat mike pompei i met with south korean president in solved before a trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of south korea and japan which provided an opportunity to show unity on the issue of north korea the u.s. alliances with these two countries are absolutely ironclad the declaration signed by u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un in singapore was vague there was no detail about how denuclearization will be achieved north korean state media suggested that the two leaders had agreed to similar taney s actions suggesting pyongyang could be rewarded along the way michael says that's not the case thanks and you

and pyongyang. what it inside out was it was all happening. a north korean delegation was in the u.s. meeting the trumpet ministration they also passed on a private letter from kim jong un to president trump who described as very nice however it isn't clear that he's actually read it at all. the letter was given to me. and that letter was. very nice letter home would you like to see what was in that. with how much how much how much you know it was a very interesting letter and i haven't seen the letter you know i purposely didn't know. i haven't opened i didn't open it in front of the director or the matter was passed to trump by a former north korean intelligence chief who was part of the pyongyang delegation in the u.s. the upcoming summit was earlier called off by trump due to what he called open hostility. while the talks seemed to be back on track pentagon chief james mudd dog mathis underlined that pyongyang will only get sanctions relief when it takes irreversible steps to end its nuclear program but experts that we spoke to agree that

this is described as a great step forward but that most big concern about pyongyang in washington moving closer china and russia have jointly proposed this freeze for freeze so the freezing of nuclear testing and the fleets of missile testing for the freeze of military maneuvers so this is this is basically even more that they got out of it so this is playing into russia's narrative for so long but russia is consent of being pushed to the sidelines too much in this conversation they have not been an active part but it was not going to moscow to bit deeper if them japan is a different case in this point a close ally of the united states from paya was currently in seoul in the briefing also the japanese foreign minister while he's there to make that possible for the japanese the most important aspect was the at the t. issue that was as dr donald trump said in the press conference not in its not in the summit outcome document but it was discussed and he said that in the press conference which allowed to save face at home and say this has been it has been alluded to in the conversation but d

when pyongyang announced an august last year it was close to developing a missile capable of reaching the u.s. trump responded with a threat of biblical proportions. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen. him shown on set by cooling the us president and mentally deranged don't taunt. and the war of words culminated in a contest over who had the biggest nuclear button. but then in february a change of chewed on the ice between north and south korea thought at the winter olympics and pyongyang extended an invitation to donald trump i'll be meeting with kim jong un in the coming weeks at the end of april the leaders of north and south korea met for the first time kim jong un crossed into the south. and when jay in crossed into the north they agreed to have continued theorising the korean peninsula. in a pyongyang extended another all of branch and released three american prisoners i think he did this because i really think he wants to do stop thing getting two weeks later kim jong un appeared to make good on a promise detonating parts of his only no nuclear t

in a train station in pyongyang north koreans huddle around newspaper stands to learn the outcome of the historic meeting between their leader and former arch donald trump. on state television glowing praise for kim jong il in with a newsreader and answering that washington would lift sanctions against that country and suspend its joint military exercises with south korea. the exercises have angered pyongyang for decades conducted several times a year there a major part of washington security structure in east asia but now donald trump says they're provocative and a waste of money games of course of fortune you know we're spending a fortune every number of months we're doing war games with south korea. which is costing we're flying planes in from warm and we're bombing empty mountains for practice. suspending the drills is a concession that came as a surprise to many and in japan there's concern it may weaken security in the region and what does the waters do up there is my understanding that u.s. troops based in south korea and japan maintain an important role in the safety of this

and till it completes its denuclearization and that's contrary to what state media is reporting in pyongyang . hello welcome to us is there live from doha i'm also coming up the biggest battle in yemen's war threatens to worsen the humanitarian crisis as the u.n. holds an emergency session on the conflict. demonstrations in argentina as congress debates whether to change strict abortion laws plus. i'm joined now in rome where the government is employed in a diplomatic standoff with from shoebridge migration policy while hundreds of refugees and migrants turned away from italy head to spain. and the u.s. secretary of state says sanctions on north korea will not be eased until it can demonstrate what he calls full cries ation but media reports from pyongyang suggest a different timeline. has been in south korea briefing regional leaders on this week's summit between president trump and kim jong il and there's also concern over the president's pledge to end joint military exercises along the korean peninsula when hey reports from seoul. after the hype of the summit with the sworn enemy came the

pyongyang's void flipping. and in terms of any successful summit, beijing will want to be involved and also involved in the opportunity around rebuilding north korea's community. and interesting we have seen talking about china, flights pyongyang.jing and and we shouldn't forget that relations were very frosty since 2012, 2013, when you hat jim jong-un and refusing to meet with president x inch and he executed an uncle who was a key liaison and alleged to assassinate his half brother and china played this crucial role. so you have had a rap i had about-face in the relationship between them. kim jong-un coming over to china. so the chinese wanting to improve the relationship and make sure they have a foothold n the process going forward. >> a crucial element in the puzzle piece of negotiations. we are a couple of hours away. let's look at what we should be watching. and we are seeing efforts pretty much going into the summit. any signs? >> not a huge amount. i was looking at volatility gauges and earning at leve

this woman could not wait to phone her mum, who was born in pyongyang. "after seeing this, i suddenly thought how i wanted to go back to north korea before i die," she says. "mum, i want your dream to come true. i want you to step back on north korean land." in seoul, president moonjae—in admitted he had had a sleepless night, but looked jubilant at the meeting, which was partly the result of his careful diplomacy. but donald trump had a surprise for him. he pledged to end what he described as war games — joint military exercises between south korea and the us. they have always angered the north. this will worry neighbouring japan, as will mr trump's suggestion to remove troops from the peninsula in the future. it's a mistake to cancel alljoint us—south korean military exercises. the united states needs to maintain a sufficient level of readiness and preparedness on the peninsula, because the north korean nuclear threat is still there. that is why many will find today's announcement disappointing. kim jong—un is now leaving the island of sentosa,

so nice and comfortable for pyongyang. meanwhile, the united states agrees to security guarantees and then president trump drops the bombshell that pyongyang has been dreaming about for ten years, he says military exercises are off. now, when i've been in north korea they've always said these exercises are so provocative, call them off. well, they're finished and south korea, the old enemy, is in a complete spin because the presidency and the military apparently now nothing about this. we basically had two statements from those two places from the blue house in the military saition saying basically, what? you know, we need time to work out what the president said. so i think for kim jong-un, for his people, and you will see this in the media because the north korean media has been all over this summit in a way certainly i've never seen before. it's been all over the newspapers, all over north korean television, and of course there is only state media so there will be no opposition that says this was not a good deal. kim wi

general assembly he was prepared to annihilate pyongyang diplomacy did finally kick in with north korea sending a delegation to south korea's winter olympics in february. a historic summit at the demilitarized zone between the two koreas was followed by a secret trip by then cia director mike pompei oh the first of two visits he made to pyongyang they pave the way for this summit in singapore trump briefly canceled this summit last month and he's repeatedly threatened to walk away if he doesn't believe the negotiations a serious a tough line but at the same time trump has been sending mixed messages to kim before he flew to singapore he was asked what he wanted to achieve at this historic summit but i had a minimum i do believe at least we'll have met each other we will have. seen each other hopefully we will have like each other and will start that process i would say that would be the minimal no demand then for the north korean leader to commit to completely give up his nuclear capability but experts say that kim is also well aware that trump is unpredictable and that he's coming from

from inside pyongyang there are numerous foreign cars it's incredible you can find brands from japan which is still considered an arch enemy despite that no one seems to have a problem with japanese luxury cars and products. a strong sign of the changing times smile fades millions have allegedly been brought into north korea through smuggling operations especially across the border from china. here we can communicate with people in north korea via chinese mobile networks we receive voice mails and videos and go but this only works along the border in a swath about four to six kilometers wide kind of. overall though these goods don't change the reality of life in north korea it remains one of the world's poorest countries. business. thank you your hard the german parliament could approve a major contract with an israeli company today to lease germany's first wait but weapons capable combat drone the issue is a highly controversial one for germany although u.s. forces have been using them for years many here are skeptical of the weapons as legitimate instruments of war on counterterror

residence and pyongyang. the u.s. vetoed a u.n. resolution calling for an international force to be deployed together to help protect palestinians the draft was put forward by. a security council emergency meeting. god will give those against. the u.s. was the only country to fold against the document afterward u.s. ambassador nikki haley proposed alternative resolution but no other countries gave their support. this resolution is wildly inaccurate in its characterization of recent events in gaza but there is an alternative we are offering a separate resolution it condemns hamas as indiscriminate firing of rockets against israeli civilian communities. well the move comes after months of deadly on rest of course on these really girls of border on friday one person was killed believed to be a part of medic and more than fifteen others injured. tensions are running high where the palestinian protesters who are very close to the front and the israeli forces acting. on the only. limit of the pounds. and how many. more tear gas is being

essential to regional security but seoul has conceded that halting drills could help speed up talks with pyongyang football's ruling body is gathering in moscow for a vote on who will host the world cup in two thousand and twenty six there are two bids in contention enjoy one from the united states canada and mexico and the other from morocco the shores competition kicks off in russia on thursday more than nine hundred migrants rescued at sea by a coast guard ship have now arrived in italy it is the first major refugee landing in italy since battaile slovenia became the deputy prime minister seventy has promoted a hardline anti immigration stance since he has been in that position italy has refused to let another charity vote carrying more than six hundred people doc it's now headed to spain after drifting at sea. macedonia has agreed to change its name to resolve its decades old dispute with greece its new name is the republic of northern macedonia issue has been a stumbling block to the countries to join the european union and nato greece is said using the name macedonia was an attempt to claim

as indicated by the postumt statemenromhina's foreign ministry, pyongyang and beijing already appear to be working together to remove sanctions despite the lack of tangible evidence of denuclearization. nuer two from the kim family playbook -- use sleight of hand to make irrelevant actions seem meaningful by supposedly site a missile engine testst stand, north korea is claiming it has made real progress despite not destroying a single warhead or missile. and number three in the kim mily playbook -- exploit ambiguity. therump-kim agreement is so vague that it imposes no clear requirements on north korea. what we should want is reconciliation, not repetition, of what has happened decade after decade when the kim family uses its playbook to delay concessions. that they make while front-end loading the rewards which they receive. we can all agree that we need a plan to stop north korea's plutonium production and uranium enrichment that suspends and then eliminates its missile program, that permanently dismantles and removes all of its nuclear and biological weapons and that implements a

later trump cancel the meeting accusing came of hostility but the very next day the white house in pyongyang said things were back on track on the first of june washington officially announced the summit would go ahead while the singapore summit saw trump promise to guarantee the north security in exchange for its new denuclearization pyongyang might have reason to remain wary as more d'asti of explains. what's not to like a new nuclear disarmament deal potentially one less country with nukes where all bets are off all of us and we have this truly historic moment on film in. the nation. on earth. so why does kim jong jr seems to suspicious could be anything poison assassins or trump just waiting to backstab him the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal come to think of it america's nuclear deal to seem to last exactly as long as the incumbent president take the rainy and deal brok obama his partner has worked on it for years so much work so much effort just for trump to tear it all up don't forget obama negotiated the arendelle one of the worst disasters the dumbest deals ev

general assembly he was prepared to annihilate pyongyang diplomacy did finally kick in with north korea sending a delegation to south korea's winter olympics in february. a historic summit at the demilitarized zone between the two koreas was followed by a secret trip by then cia director mike pompei oh the first of two visits he made to pyongyang they pave the way for this summit in singapore trump briefly canceled this summit last month and he's repeatedly threatened to walk away if he doesn't believe the negotiations is serious a tough line but at the same time trump has been sending mixed messages to kim before he flew to singapore he was asked what he wanted to achieve at this historic summit but i had a minimum i do believe at least we'll have met each other we will have. seen each other hopefully we will have like each other and will start that process i would say that would be the minimal no demand then for the north korean leader to commit to completely give up his nuclear capability but experts say that kim is also well aware that trump is unpredictable and that he's coming fro

well ahead of those talks russia's foreign minister and already met with the north korean leader in pyongyang a correspondent in a patrol traveled with the russian delegation and he was granted rare access indeed to one of the north korean leaders residences. we were told to leave most of our belongings and all our mobile devices behind and now they're taking us somewhere. so we're here in this van and just to cover him and one photographer and myself following a lot of shade in. this area is completely deserted and it looks like we're in circling something that appears to be the palace. if only someone told me where exactly we are right now but we are being told to fall this man. who. i don't really know what exactly this place this but it looks to be the area where it came john will be greeting certainly loughborough of and the reason why i think so is because just through this door i saw came john in sister and she was having some sort of conversation with the guards but nobody speaks english here hello. and as far as i understand this is circular. i believe this is a bit of a historic mom

and malaysia says it will reopen its embassy in pyongyang the prime minister mahathir mohamed said he will take north korea's commitment at face value and resume relations with the isolated nation malaysia close this embassy in pyongyang last year after a diplomatic standoff following the suspect that assassination of kim jong un's half brother at kuala lumpur airport. well still to come in this half hour warm praise and stinging criticism from u.s. lawmakers in response to president trance meeting with kim jong il and their class leading figures of the brakes in movement are questioned by british lawmakers over their dealings with russia during the campaign. had it started raining again in hong kong which is no big surprise admittedly above that the white top players the that's the heaviest rain have been drifting in this general direction out of the west having had a couple days off and it's society's core i think where you'll see most of the rain on both wednesday and thursday it really looks like it's going to concentrate on thursday that it's largely dry right up to sichuan from

soim will say, come to pyongyang. kim will say even strange likes, i am aminnable to this in thees uni one year, maybe next year, speak at the u.n. general assembly. and mr. trump, president trump will be engaged, interested by that possibility of continual dialogue. i believe this is a trap. it's not going to work out. but if mr. trump, president trump can muster up the courage to tell kim the truth, then that will be a summit, that will be political drama worth the visit. thank you. bruce: good. thanks very much. just a little more background on the gevt government meetings that wereurri -- the government meetings that were occurring before it was decided clinton would not go to pyongyang, i was attending the white hous it's called the plus one. i was the assistant or the bag holder, note holder for the d.c.i. and other c.i.a. officials for meetings at the white house talking about north korea. and after north korea invited president clinton to go in 2000, some in the clinton administration were saying, well, we sho