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>> absolutely. and president trump and to his credit invited the south korean president to the white house. he has said he will come. there will be a discussion and it will be a very contentious one. the south korean president has a position that's inconsistent with ours. he wants to give a to the north. but we tried to do a strangle the north so they cannot build nukes and missiles. there has to be some sort of compromise i suppose. those two positions are 180 degrees apart. also south korea wants to get rid of the high-altitude defense system that was recently installed and south korea. we w...

How this gets shaped in the upcoming month. you have merckle all meeting with russia. >> sandra: we've got the u.s. military confirming the thad missile defense system is now operational in south korea. that made big news, big headlines. can you explain to us what the purpose of that is and how it works. >> sure. this has been in the works for awhile. it seems that the process was sped up a bit now mostly because of the escalating crisis with north korea. the way it works in layman's terms. south korea gave us land. our equipment will be there. they're mobile launchers so you can move them aro...

Prioritize american citizens' security and interests. and -- but to do that, we need strong alliances. but also to do that effectively, in a way that's sustainable economically, we need everybody to pay their fair share. >> senator, i heard you say it may not be the timing to talk about renegotiating this deal with south korea and who pays for the thad missile defense system, but, this is a billion dollar system to defend south korea largely. shouldn't they help pay for it? >> well, south korea pays about 40% of the cost of our forces in south korea. they are one of the most significant allies...

Is what secretary tillerson i think was trying to convey in the security council on friday. we need to enlist the chinese to the greatest extent possible to exercise their leverage and influence. that's something we've been working on for many years, and it's something that president trump has, i think, correctly emphasized as an appropriate course. we need to reassure and secure our allies, particularly south korea and japan, who feel most directly threatened by north korea. and there, i'm concerned frankly that we're hearing very mixed messages. on the one hand, a message that south korea's ...

They believe, and they tell their people here, that they are under the imminent threat of invasion by the united states, and that is how they justify spending a tremendous amount of their resources on weapons of mass destruction, even if it does mean cutbacks in other areas. this is an i mpoverished countr overall, even though we do see a lot of construction and a higher standard of living here in pyongyang, we're never allowed to go outside the kacapital whe 122 million americans live. although they say they're growing across the countryside as well. what you have from north korea today, not ...