but that video, like so many things about donald trump was unintentionally very revealing. i agree with john and nick. the united states got absolutely nothing from this deal and gave up tremendous amount. donald trump got something, at least in the short-term, at least in the theme of that video being a man of destiny, setting the world s course. so he gave kim jong-un so trump himself was the only victor with the american citizenship from this deal. the rest of us lost. nick, quickly, about materialism within north korea, there is no less materialistic country or population on earth. the idea that kim wants to make his people rich strikes me as something that has not yet crossed kim s mind. no, i actually disagree with that to some degree. so his father there was a policy of military first. and kim jong-un when he took over had a dual policies of military development, but also development of the economy. and so for the and then recently he took away the
military development starting to think about coordinating missions and the german defense minister was quite clear saying this is not in competition to nato this is in partnership with nato we know we have to do more the french defense minister saying this is tough for us but we are going to do it the other area increased spending again a constant message from washington for years now with this conference that the europeans must pay more for their own defense the french defense minister said this is really tough but we are doing it i ve got it in my budget and the defense minister of germany as well saying we re going to do that but we re going to increase development spending as well we say the two go hand in hand and we re committed to raising both. the united states is likely to react to those messages that coming from today s conference we haven t we have not yet heard from members of the trump administration they are here the defense secretary is here as is the
how are they responding to what ambassador nikki haley had to say? reporter: [ inaudible ]. official we met with quite frankly, he said sanctions just don t work. they have lived under sanctions here for many years, heavily sanctioned since north korea s first nuclear test in 2006. 11 years later there have been five tests, three ordered by kim jong-un in the last year. more than 20 missile launches and they say this will continue in ernest. can they as a financial matter continue to afford these missiles? reporter: [ inaudible ]. this is a country that is pending on its military development. anywhere from 15 to 24% that come at the expense of thing like providing electricity for the vast majority of citizens.
we re told which allows it to be activated very quickly and hidden in these underground bunkers. it s a significant and very troubling development and, in fact, as we were checking in here to the hotel on the evening news broadcast, the propaganda broadcast that you see every evening in north korea, they showed the images of this launcher and they showed kim jong-un standing right next to it giving the order. so, this does continue here and we re going to be talking to some people later today just out in the city to ask them what they think about all of it. but i can guarantee you they will say that they are very excited and proud of their regime s advancements and people routinely will tell us that they are willing to go hungry for the sake of their country s military development because they have been told and they re told repeatedly they are under the imminent threat of invasion by the united states and that these nuclear potentially tipped missiles nuclear weapons testing is the ke
ground there just a couple weeks ago, alisyn. that s when north korea claimed they had launched and test fired a ballistic missile from a submarine. of course later some of the photos they released turned out to be doctored. there s no disputing the fact north korea is investing a considerable amount of money in their nuclear program. they claim they have a ballistic missile capable of striking the united states. a top official told me that and now brand new they re also saying they have the technology to miniaturize nuclear weapons, to make them small enough to put them in one of those missiles and fire at their number one enemy the u.s. also in danger india, south korea, all the regional allies here that have to watch north korea s every move with great caution. north korea also apparently isolating itself abruptly canceling a visit by the u.n. secretary general it would have been the first in more than 20 years but it s not happening anymore. north korea instead threatening more mil