>> well, it's certainly something that north korea has said at every single exercise ever conducted by south korea and the coalition partners. so this is just another iteration of that kind of dialogue. and, brian, you know, ambassador yun is the expert in all of this, but it seems to me no matter what the dialogue is, we're talking about the difference between politics and national security issues. when you're talking about those kinds of things, one phrase always comes up in my mind -- if you want it bad, you're going to get it bad. we are 18 days away from the proposed date of 12 june. during that period of time, a lot of groundwork has to go into it, and truthfully that's not a lot of time to prepare for a conference of this magnitude, a summit of this magnitude. so i'm just very concerned no matter which side of the aisle you're on that we have surrendered the initiative to north korea. they are now making the demands