mattis is very much verbally at least focusing on diplomacy and saying that the state department really will continue to lead on the diplomatic front on the sanctions front that we've seen with the treasury department. matt mattis has long said conflict with north korea would be a disaster, a catastrophe the likes the world hasn't seen in decades. that does not mean that there are not military options, that as they see this rhetoric, they continue to recalibrate the military options. but the big problem remains, how could you get in and out, you know, whether it's u.s. missiles, u.s. aircraft, how could you get the u.s. military to conduct strikes inside north korea faster and get out faster than they could launch a counter attack against south korea. that remains one of the key issues, one of the key problems that -- to which by all accounts there's no easy answer and the fundamental problem right now