Donald Trump included a Hollywood-produced video in his presentation to Kim Jong-un during nuclear talks in Singapore

The four-minute film showed Kim as a leader at a crossroads and urged him to choose a more economically and technologically open future

Part of the footage included a wide shot of a beach and an image of speedboats

Trump said he saw the video and thought North Korea has 'great beaches' and is situated perfectly between the economic powers of China and South Korea

The main image, showing a pair of condominium spires, was shot in Miami

He said he encouraged Kim to consider a future that included condo and hotel developments in his country

Donald Trump said Tuesday that part of his hard sell to Kim Jong-un about giving up his nuclear weapons was a video that showed the benefits of shaking off the chains of near-global economic sanctions – including the possibility of developing his country's beaches.

But the image chosen by the film's producers didn't depict anything North Korea has to offer. It showed part of the Miami Beach skyline, something that Trump said was 'a version of what could happen and take place.'

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'They have great beaches! You see that whenever they're exploding the cannons into the ocean, right?' Trump said after he played the dramatic, Hollywood-produced four minute video for the press corps.

'So I said, "Boy, look at that beach. Wouldn't that make a great condo behind–," and I explained it,' the real estate billionaire recalled.

'I said, "Instead of doing that you could have the best hotels in the world right there." Think of it from a real estate perspective.'

President Donald Trump told reporters that part of his hard sell to Kim Jong-un on Tuesday involved encouraging him keep his word on nukes so he could have economic sanctions dropped and ultimately develop his country's beaches

'They have great beaches! You see that whenever they're exploding the cannons into the ocean, right?' Trump said during a press conference, after playing the video he showed Kim on an iPad; the video included this freeze-frame of a portion of Miami Beach

Trump said he was encouraging Kim to think of North Korea 'from a real estate perspective' by showing him footage of beach resorts he could develop

The brief freeze-frame in the film footage depicts Miami Beach with condos in the background and a yacht marina in the foreground.

A live-action clip also shows a pair of speedboats zooming across unidentified waters.

The White House did not immediately respond to a question about why Trump's team included the images.

A voiceover in the video described Tuesday's summit as 'a special moment in time when a man is presented with one chance that may never be repeated. What will he choose? To show vision and leadership? Or not?'

'Will this leader choose to advance his country and be part of a new world? Be the hero of his people?' the narrator says later, over a climactic string orchestra. 'Will he shake the hand of peace and enjoy prosperity like he has never seen? A great life, or isolation? Which path will be chosen?'

But Trump seemed most animated when he talked about the commercial possibilities for the long-isolated hermit kingdom.

'You have South Korea, you have China, and they own the land in the middle. How bad is that, right? It's great!'

'But I told him, I said, "You may not want to do what's there. You may want to do a smaller version of it or, you know." And that could be,' he allowed.

'Although I tell you what, he looked at that tape, he looked at that iPad. And I'm telling you they really enjoyed it, I believe.'

This aerial view shows Miami Beach's Blue and Green Diamond condo complex in the center

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The heavily produced video, made with both Korean and English voiceovers, portrays Kim Jong-un as a man with a choice of moving his country forward or backward

Images in the video included many of smiling North Koreans ¿ but none of the country's gulags and forced labor camps

Trump said his team had brought the video to Singapore on 'on a cassette and an iPad.' It's unclear whether the White House believed it would have to provide an old-technology way for Kim to view it once he was home in Pyongyang.

'That was a tape that we gave to Chairman Kim and his people, his representatives. And it captures a lot, captures what can be done,' he said.

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What initially appeared to reporters at the president's post-summit press conference to be a propaganda video – it was played first in Korean, and then in English – was something the White House ordered from a production company, Trump said.

The video twice mentioned 'Destiny Pictures.' There is a production company by that name, headed by Mark Castaldo, a film producer with just a handful of credits.

According to his online biography, Castaldo 'began a professional career in the casino business working 10 years in Atlantic City and Las Vegas' before becoming a filmmaker.

It's unclear whether the White House chose his company, and why.

But the video was long on dramatics and framed the Trump-Kim summit as a history-shaping moment.

Trump was in Singapore for negotiations aiming to persuade Kim to completely destroy his nuclear weapons and missile programs

Part of the video's message is that North Korea has the potential to engage with the world in technology and science

'Seven billion people inhabit Planet Earth. Of those alive today, only a small number will leave a lasting impact. And only the very few will make decisions or take actions that renew their homeland and change the course of history,' its narrator intoned.

'History is always evolving, and there comes a time when only a few are called upon to make a difference. But the question is: What difference will the few make? The past doesn't have to be the future.

'Out of the darkness can come the light, and the light of hope can burn bright.'

And in a direct appeal to Kim, the voiceover adds: 'A new world can begin today, one of friendship, respect and goodwill. Be part of that world, where the doors of opportunity are ready to be opened.'

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