Last Friday, South Korea launched into space its first domestically built spy satellite.

Lifting off from California's Vandenberg Space,

it came less than two weeks after North Korea put its first military spy satellite into orbit as well.

Unlike the South Korean launch, though, North Korea's mission drew immediate rebukes from

Washington, Seoul, and others since it violated UN Security Council resolutions.

Any North Korean launch using ballistic technology is viewed by the intergovernmental organization

as a cover for testing missile capabilities.

I asked U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall about the

recent developments and how he would assess the threat posed by North Korea

amid a heightened geopolitical backdrop. I do think it's very concerning that North Korea has acquired nuclear weapons.

I think that that is a risk we have to manage.

Their ability to put some capabilities in space.

I don't find them all that threatening quite honestly.

From the annual Reagan National Defense Forum,

Secretary Kendall joined me for a wide-ranging interview to discuss AI on the battlefield,

the issue that he is quote literally losing sleep over, and the race to secure space.

I'm Morgan Brennan and this is manifest space.

You just got off stage, you just did a panel that was focused on AI on autonomy, your message?

We are embedding AI in a range of products.

It's basically a set of technologies that are the next generation, if you will, of software-based

capabilities and my computing-based capabilities.

So we are embracing it and we're dealing with a lot of questions about

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