it is often with he is courts of japanese or south korean aircraft. that is a strong -- those are both strong military relationships and important to whatever happens next. but in both cases the president has done things that could undermine some of our relationships. he constantly talks to the south koreans as renegotiating relationships. there are some tensions on the trade level. from a military perspective what does the president need to do with japan and south korea? >> well, i don't think he's going to find that either one of those nations, nor the australians, are willing to publicly state that they're headed in the direction of a binary decision, basically. do we accept north korean nuclear capacity to strike the ns or do we use some kind of preemptive military action? none of them are going to sign up for that option for rather obvious reasons. there would be an immediate,