Transcript for Video shows Trump saluting North Korean general

President trump with new praise for north Korean leader Kim Jong-un calling him a tough guy and saying they understand each other as the president now faces new questions about what the brutal dictator has done inside his country. What the north Koreans are being told about promises from president trump. Here's Cecilia Vega. Reporter: On north Korean state TV today, a 42-minute video documenting Kim Jong-un's every move at the historic summit. President trump, called the supreme leader of the united States, shown offering his hand to a north Korean general. The general salutes instead, and the president salutes right back. In train stations, north Koreans clustered, reading news of the summit. State media reported the president pledged to quote, "Lift sanctions as mutual relations improve through dialogue and negotiation." But today, secretary of state Mike Pompeo said that's not actually the case. The economic relief that North Korea will receive will only happen after the full denuclearization. Reporter: Back at home, the president's gushing praise for Kim Jong-un is raising eyebrows. Six months ago, he said this -- No regime has oppressed its own citizens more totally or brutally than the cruel dictatorship in North Korea. Reporter: But now? I think we understand each other. But he has still done some really bad things. Yeah, but so have a lot of other people done some really bad things. Reporter: Human rights groups say Kim's regime has carried out torture, forced starvation and systemic murder of thousands. Why is he now downplaying North Korea's horrific atrocities? The president hasn't downplayed. The president has North Korea's human rights record and some of the abuses of the North Korea regime on a number of occasions. He said a lot of other people have done some really bad things. How is that not downplaying the atrocities? A lot of people have done some bad things. However, the president hasn't ignored bad things that have been done by the north Korean regime. The white house is now insisting that president trump raised human right Ness that meeting with Kim Jong-un. Sarah Sanders told me today the focus was denuclearization, not human rights. Cecelia, thanks as always.

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