Transcript for Juju Chang: 'Impossible to overstate how big a deal this is'

It is impossible to overstate how big a deal this is for not just Koreans and South Korea but Koreans living all over in the guy asked for. Literally two and a half million Koreans were killed during out war period so there's not a family that goes untouched or unscathed. I mean I've personally my grandfather was kidnapped by the north Koreans and never to be seen again my parents were war refugees and they have their lives turned upside down. And my family is no exception it every single Korean fan when you talked he was affected in this way. And it has created such a an imprint on the Korean psyche. I will tell you honestly DeVon I never thought in my lifetime that I would see that image of kingdom ruined the grandson of the founder of North Korea. Is shaking hands with an American president on the world stage and talking about peace and new denuclearization. These are epic changes that happened so swiftly because if you look call when president when day in came into office he was seen as not just. The peacemaker but some nigh eve that this is you know a lot of bluster and that would there was no way that he was going to be able to achieve any meaningful peace. And yet within short order. The polls in South Korea he pulls here in the United States have gone towards optimism. Now granted there are generations and generations of South Korean politicians and American administrations. Who have gotten agreements with North Korea. Whether or not they'll be able to get. You know full compliance. Is an open question.

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