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Now I wanted to put down to one idea that apparently there are many ticklish, sensitive elements to making peace with North Korea. And one of them is the number of people who are alleged to be in prison camps. And I've heard some people speculate that you can't loosen up the North because it would bring to light all the people who were in prison camps and there's so many of them it would be a big…

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North Korean defectors have a great difficulty fitting into South Korea. Exactly. Yeah you would not simply release them into the wild. You would need an extended period where they're in something like resettlement camps. There would be much better than a gulag. And then maybe paired up with South Korean families or whatever you need to do to integrate them. All right. It would create reunification pressure. I think a better way to say that would be it would be a small step toward reunification. Because on some level everybody likes that reunification if it doesn't happen right away and it happens in a comfortable way. So everybody likes it in concept and that would be one way to make a small step in that direction.

Yeah the 100 year plan for reunification. I still like it. Trump just nominated for Nobel Prize by Norwegian lawmakers. You know I'm not, I just don't know it's helpful at this point to be talking about any kind of Nobel Prizes. I think that's something that I'm guilty of, of jumping the gun on that stuff because it's sort of the wrong focus. It's fun. It was fun to talk about and it would be tremendous if someday events justified that. But at the moment it probably just gets a little bit ahead of the facts on the ground.

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Now I want to tell you about, I don't have the link but it was The New Yorker magazine who wrote an article. And you've seen the number of them like this about the video that President Trump shared with Kim. Now you may have seen my periscope in which I said it was brilliant persuasion and it got everything right. And here's what people are getting wrong about that video. And I hope those of you w…

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