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Foreign policy crises facing the trump administration in its first 100 days. i want to bring in christopher hill, ambassador to iraq under president obama and ambassador to south korea under president george bush. and evan mcmullen, a 2016 independent presidential candidate and former cia officer. mr. ambassador, what does north korea have to gain by conducting another nuclear test or even a missile launch at this point in time? >> first of all, we need to understand these tests as tests of various military programs. we often regard them as tests of us or tests of our new administration. but i...

Implying that perhaps we make too much of these north korean missile and nuclear tests? >> i wouldn't say we're making too much of those tests, because those tests are designed to create a deliverable nuclear weapon. that will come sooner or later, whether one or two years, it will probably come on the watch of this administration. so i think these tests are important insofar as they are tests of military programs. we may make too much of the notion that these tests are an expression of defiance towards us. i'm much more concerned about what they're learning in these tests about these programs...

They can still complete projects like this and they credit one person, their supreme leader. the soldiers you see marching here are the ones who built this entire project. this is the closest we're allowed to get to the sometimes very young faces of the north korean military. this country has a very large standing army and even though this is not an overt show of force, projects like this are just as important to the north koreans as their nuclear weapons program. the prime minister said completing this major construction project is just as important as if they dropped 100 nuclear bombs. the m...

Tens of thousands of people are moving in here. raising questions about how far china is willing to go to reign in its unpredictable neighbor. we saw north korean leader making a rare appearance in pyongyang. not military event but a ribbon cutting of a new high rise apartment complex, an attempt by the regime to show economic growth despite heavy sanctions over their nuclear program. the message from the north koreans seems to be they want to move forward with their military programs but they also want to grow their economy peacefully. the they say if they are provoked, they are not afraid to...

Common ground. even as he started that common ground -- >> yeah, it was interesting. i've never seen two guys disagree to disagree as well. captain from a what we believe -- you would more than i would about this, but a joint. but the idea of cyber interference in. he said, i would rather talk about cyber activity during a campaign rather than try to interrupt a military program. >> that statement was important. the united states from time to time carries out cyber warfare operations on military programs,