confidence, and that is a difficult balancing act for china to pull off. >> and the fact that, mike choy, approval for me, a reporter from cnn, and also a report from "the new york times" to go along with bill richardson on this trip, and you have been there many times, and what does it say to you to let two journalists in? >> well, it is clear that the north koreans have important messages they want delivered on the trip and they want to get out to the general public and the political elite in washington. i suspect that the message going to be that we want to talk, and if we don't talk with the united states, there's going to be more trouble to come. there is one other really important point that needs to be addressed here, wolf. that is in south korea, you have a government with two episodes, the sink of the ship in march and the shelling of an island a couple of weeks ago where it did not respond militarily, and now