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United states and japan, but again the issues of trade and security, there was some daylight that seemed to be apparent. >> yeah. let's be honest. the united states and japan have had a very close relationship, an alliance for many decades now. as we discussed some days ago, the issues of trade and national security were always going to dominate this trip. when you look at issues to do with north korea, for example, and the suggestion that donald trump is in some disagreement with perhaps john bolton and the united states' position with regard to issues to do with missile testing, there's clea...

It's going. intelligent people agree with me. >> you're not bothered at all by the small missiles? >> no, i am not. i am personally not. >> president trump says he's not bothered by north korea's recent missile testing. his security adviser is and so is japan's prime minister who says there is, quote, no doubt north korea violated u.n. resolutions. congressman tom malinowski joins us now. good morning. >> good morning. >> did north korea violate the u.n. resolution? >> yes. it's repeatedly done so in the last few years. here's why this matters. what it says to not just north korea but to all o...

Where he said he takes kim jong-un, the murderous dictator, at his word that there will be no more testing. at that point he said he'll do no testing of rockets. not going to do testing. well, now there's been testing. the second thing we played was the way he, i guess justifies to himself saying it's not ballistic missiles. that's not what his security adviser said. he said there is no doubt it was ballistic missile testing. >> it's going overseas, undercutting his advisers, the intelligence community and the japanese adviser who is concerned that the short range missiles pose a threat to jap...

Prove to his countrymen that he's willing to take a strong stance against the world and that he is not being affected by international pressure. but possibly the issue of the abductions is something where trump might be able to make some inroa inroads. he was able to return the body of otto warmbier. there's a chance that they're going to be able to make some improvements in that area because there is this personal relationship. thus far, trump hasn't really been able to do much in terms of getting kim jong-un to stop some of this missile testing. >> we'll leave it there. thank you so much for...

Strength. and this is a strong alliance, indeed, the u.s.-japan alliance is steadfast and iron clad. >> that phrase one of the clear take aways from the meeting, president trump saying he was moved by japanese familyies impacted by abductions be the north korean regime. he supports shinzo abe and not bothered by recent short-range missile testing by north korea, japanese defense will sell japan the biggest fleet of, if 35 stealth fighters of any u.s. ally but security just one of many topics the president and abe discussed. >> the united states supports japan's efforts to improve its defense c...