Well, thank you very much I want to begin by thanking
the Prime Minister and president of Vietnam
We're in Hanoi. It's an incredible city and what's happened over the last?
25 years has been incredible for
The people of Vietnam the job they've done economic development really something special
So I want to thank all of the people of Vietnam for having treated us so well
We have I think
reasonably
attractive news from
Pakistan and India
they've been going at it and
we've been involved in trying to have them stopped and
We have some reasonably decent news. I think hopefully that's going to be coming to an end. It's been going on for a long time
decades and decades
There's a lot of dislike
Unfortunately, so we've been in the middle trying to help them both out. See if we can get some
organization and some peace and I think probably
That's going to be happening we have
Venezuela, as you know has been very much in the news and we're sending supplies supplies are getting through a little bit more
It's not easy. It's hard to believe somebody would say let's not do it. What difference would that make except?
It's great for his people to let it get through
But we're sending a lot of supplies down to Venezuela. People are starving to death and
You would really think that
The man in charge currently would let those supplies get through
We are getting them into
Some of the cities in some of the areas that need them the most and it's not an easy job
it's very difficult actually on North Korea we
Just left chairman Kim the way to really I think a very productive time
we thought and I thought and
secretary Pompeo felt that
It wasn't a good thing to be signing anything. I'm gonna let Mike speak about it, but we literally just left we spent
pretty much all day with Kim jong-un, who is
He's quite a guy and quite a character and I think our relationship is very strong
but at this time we had some options and at this time we decided not to do any of the options and
We'll see where that goes, but it was
it was a very interesting two days and I think actually it was a very productive two days, but sometimes you have to walk and
This was just one of those
Speak to that
It was unprepared to do that, but I'm still optimistic
We'll get back together in the days and weeks ahead and continue to work out it's a very complex problem
We've said since the beginning that this would take time
Our teams have gotten to know each other better. We know what the limits are
we know where some of the challenges are and
I think as we continue to work on this in the days and weeks ahead we can make progress so that
We can ultimately achieve what it is that the world wants which is to denuclearize North Korea and reduce risks
For the American people the people all around the world. I wish we could have gotten a little bit further
but
Optimistic that the progress that we made posed in the run-up to this summit as well as the progress that the two leaders made over
These past two days put us in position to get a really good outcome
continue to work on this in the days and weeks ahead we can make progress so that
We can ultimately achieve what it is that
The world wants which is to denuclearize North Korea to reduce risk for the American people the people all around the world
I wish we could have gotten a little bit further
but I'm very optimistic that the progress that we made both in the run-up to this summit as
well as the progress that the two leaders made over these past two days put us in position to get a really good outcome and
the president chairman Kim both
Felt good that they had made that progress
But couldn't quite get along the law along the line any further to make a deal that would have been bigger at this point
I hope will do so in the weeks ahead Thank You. Mr. President
Basically they wanted the sanctions lifted
In their entirety and we couldn't do that
They were willing to dhenuka large portion of the areas that we wanted
But we couldn't give up all of the sanctions for that. So we continue to work and we'll see but we had to
walk away from that particular
Suggestion we had to walk away from that with all the sanctions that are currently in existence remain sir. They're in place
so
you know is watching it's a lot of you folks over the weeks have said oh we've given up we haven't given up anything and
Frankly, I think we'll end up being very good friends with
Chairman Kim and with North Korea and I think they have tremendous potential. I've been telling everybody they have tremendous potential
unbelievable potential but
We're gonna see but it was about sanctions
I mean, they wanted sanctions lifted, but they weren't willing to do an area that we wanted they were willing to give us areas
But not the ones we want to junk
We as we know, I mean there's an incredibly complex set of issues
That are at play here in terms of lifting the sanctions and what denuclearization is, right?
Did you get any distance toward sort of what Kim's vision of denuclearization?
Is because we there is there is there is a lot
Line of thinking that he wants to keep some news. Yeah. I mean, would you allow him to do that?
And if he well, I don't I don't John. I don't want to comment. Excuse me. I don't want to comment on that exactly but
he has a certain vision and
it's not exactly our vision, but it's a lot closer than it was a year ago and
I think you know eventually we'll get there but for this particular visit we decided that we had to walk and
We'll see what happens but looking at these pictures
Can we be rest assured that actually the worst that can probably happen now is not much changing. Well not today or day after tomorrow
But then we have to understand that
this is a
You know way or a moment, you know in the wrong sense
I mean did you presence a turning point in the negotiation process between North Korea and the United States?
I wouldn't say this is a minor he got here. I mean North Korea bailed out orderly warrants from the United States
I mean
even though North Korean leader
Kim jong-un didn't express it
in a literal sense what North Korea wants seems to be that third negotiation from now on should be not about sanctions lifting or
assist in north korea economic Lee for first they want to discuss about