William R. Richardson: “I think Kim Jong-un is more. I think he has an end game. I think he's looking at things more broadly, he wasn't settling…”

Russia needs to get tougher and they are not doing it. I think these U.N. sanctions were the strongest that we have ever had.

His main objective is to stay in power, more so than detente with the United States.

Perhaps a vaguer statement that says tensions are less and the war is over, OK. Maybe. But not as a tradeoff unless there is substantial denuclearization.

My worry is--and before, I think, you came in I said it is better to negotiate with the foreign ministry types in North Korea rather than the intelligence people because they are more flexible.