china. that's not a bad thing. we are not going to be able to resolve this diplomatically until we can get all four actors at the table together. as far as of the secrecy goes, i think it's just habit more than anything else. it makes no sense to try and hide it from the world. >> so how do you sort of view this in the context of the president sort of unilaterally saying, yeah, i'm going to meet with the north korean leader, i want to do it by may. can you give us a sense of how this will sort of play into that effort? do you think that that is something you believe would be the right move for this president? >> i think it is always the right move to try diplomacy. before we lurch into a massive war on the korean peninsula in which a couple million people will die. i think the difficulty has exponentially increased because of the addition of john bolton to the security team, peter. bolton will be very aggressive with the north koreans, and i