released to the media. >> right. >> and there is this -- there is this -- apart from that step there are no preconditions for talks, and that wasn't said. >> i know. so he had that in there, sticking to his original statement about no preconditions. >> right. >> and then somewhere along the line somebody came along with a sharpie and took that part out. today instead of emphasizing, come on down, there are no preconditions, he is emphasizing there's a major precondition and that is you have to have a sustained cessation of -- >> threatening behavior. >> threatening behavior. he didn't get super specific. you always want to leave some vagueness in there. you don't want to make it so structured that immediately north korea is going to say no way because everybody would like to see diplomacy work here. >> yeah. >> maybe not north korea but we would assume they would like some conversation. so he's emphasizing you need -- first you need sustained