[Nobles:] Just a day after the historic summit between North and South Korea, President Trump is weighing in on plans for his own talks with North Korea's leader, tweeting out "Just had a long and very good talk with President Moon of South Korea. Things are going very well. Time and location of meeting with North Korea is being set. Also spoke to Prime Minister Abe of Japan to inform him of the ongoing negotiations." The agreement between the two countries committed to a declaration of peace and denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. I want to bring in CNN's Will Ripley. He is live for us today from Seoul, South Korea. And Will, is it impossible for the meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un to take place if we don't get this first step of the meeting between the leaders of South and North Korea?
[Will Ripley, Cnn International Correspondent:] It needed to happen because President Moon Jae-in and Kim Jong-un needed to talk first about inter-Korean relations because at the end of the day the two Koreas want to determine their own path forward. They were divided back in at the end of World War II by the former Soviet Union and the United States. And then the wars that were fought, it was essentially a proxy war as well. And now they want to have a hand in their own future moving forward. And so step one, the inter-Korean summit. But the very important step is the summit with President Trump, the first meeting between a North Korean leader and a sitting U.S. president, because that is going to decide whether the Koreas can accomplish things like denuclearization and a peace treaty formally ending the Korean war.
[Nobles:] There's obviously some other pretty powerful players in that region who are going to want to have a say in these discussions, including the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe. Is he in support of these meetings with North Korea? He obviously has been in contact with President Trump.
[Ripley:] Yes, Prime Minister Abe was certainly blindsided by President Trump's quick decision to accept a meeting with Kim Jong-un because Japan really dug in their heels on a more hawkish approach that they thought the Trump administration was taking. In fact they were until they weren't. But Prime Minister Abe did go to Mar-a-Lago. They had a good meeting. I think the prime minister of Japan feels more engaged right now. He's also organizing a trilateral meeting expected to happen within the next couple weeks in Tokyo. President Moon will fly to Tokyo for that. Also, they'll have a representative from China there as well to talk about North Korea as well as other regional issues.
[Nobles:] And of course Kim Jong-un talked about reuniting Korean families as part of this agreement. Is that an important issue for South Koreans?
[Ripley:] It absolutely is an important issue on this peninsula because there are so many families who have been divided since the end of the Korean War, since that armistice that was signed in 1953. And a lot of these family members, brothers who haven't seen their sisters, they're getting older and they're dying without ever having these reunions take place. So time is of the essence. And one of the agreements made at Panmunjom, at the inter-Korean summit, was that the family reunions are due to happen again. They have happened periodically over the years. They're going to try to make them happen again probably sometime this summer.
[Nobles:] All right, Will Ripley with the view on the ground there in Seoul, South Korea. Will, thank you for that report. Still to come, details on three marines charged with sexually assaulting two women. A live report on that investigation straight ahead.