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$700 million went to repair our ships. we have a very depleted military as a result of mr. obama and his administration and we need to rebuild it. eric: are you confident that we are rebuilding? we have so many threats, north korea, we see whats happening. you can click president reagan at the military will be completely restored? >> yes, sir. thank god for president trump we are seeing the same kind of leadership that we must have it. we have threats in the nation states as well as terrorist an...

Provocation and an all out war which would be disastrous of course. what do we do to russia and china? >> one thing you just mentioned, and all out war. russia and china really do not want that to happen. >> they keep pushing -- >> understood but they really do not want that to happen. that is what we have seen some coming around in terms of beijing and moscow because they do not like to have a super heavily armed atomic power and north korea. right next to them. i mean yes, they have a history ...

President trump made in that scathing tweet he issued in the overnight hours here in beijing. we know that china is key to the trump administrations policy when it comes to dealing with north korea reining in the regime. the thinking of the trump administration has been to gather international partners, to unleash the wave of provocation from north korea, they want to cut off the flow of resources to north korea, they want to cut off revenue streams which will push north korea into the isolated ...

Sanctions now china is responding. cnn alexander field has more now from beijing. alexander. >> reporter: its been a year of constant provocation have pyongyang and that has raft of sanctions aimed at curtailing and cutting off revenue streams that have fueled that rogue regime in illicit activities. the question now is have they skirted that. thats the allegation that president trump is making. and goes further to say saying that china is allowing it. that is the bold tweet that the president s...

Easily. and quickly. and i am calling on china and your great president to hopefully work on it very hard. >> i called on every nation including china and russia to unite in is isolating the north korean regime, until it stops its dangerous provocation. >> so president trump is not the first u.s. president to call on china to do more. however, he does have an interesting sort of unique relationship with chinese president xi. friendly on many fronts. hes also said chinas ra p ping this economy. s...

Coordination with their south korean counterparts. just weeks before the winter olympics, concerns are mounting that north korea might engage in a violent provocation to disrupt the games. which are being held just 50 miles south of the dmz. >> my concern are softer targets and things the north koreans my do to provoke the south koreans to cause the games being shut down or potentially war. >> reporter: security experts say soft targets like transportation hubs, schools and shopping areas could ...

Satellites are overhead watching their every move. but it all comes at a very sensitive time because, of course, early in 2018, we are all headed towards watching the olympic games in south korea and the effort right now to make that the region stays quiet, stable with no provocations on any sides up through those olympic games. everybodys looking for some stability in the region so if north korea were to engage in a provocation its going to be quite unsettling. anna? >> also reporting the trump...

>> as your panel was discussing, is north korea preparing for another provocation. sources are telling us, u.s. government sources are telling us there are preliminary indications that north korea may be, once again, moving equipment around, including potentially vehicles that could be indications of preliminary activity for either another ballistic missile test or possibly the launch of a satellite and either of those would be provocative, because the south korean olympics are coming up after t...

Hes going to look for ways to fight back. one way to fight back is to hurt the south korean economy. the south korean economy right now is 100% focused on a successful international olympic event. so imagine signer sabotage. so you dont kill anybody, but you disrupt the economic flow, the transportation flow. you create a headache for the south korean government. you make the south koreans look bad. they lose face. >> reporter: analysts say if the north koreans dont engage in a violent provocati...

Now is 100% focused on a successful international olympic event. so imagine cyber sabotage, so you dont kill anybody but you just disrupt the economic flow, the transportation flow. you create a headache for the south korean government. you make the south koreans look bad. they lose face. >> reporter: analysts say if the north koreans dont engage in a violent provocation during the winter olympics theyre at least likely to send spies into south korea during the games. they say the olympics will ...