was being more accommodating would encourage the north koreans to exercise restraint. now they slapped china in the face. beijing is furious about this. it will probably support some kind of new measures against north korea. but at the end of the day, china's big interest in the korean peninsula is stability. they don't want to see a collapse of the regime, an implosion that would remove them as a buffer against the pro american system in south korea. so the chinese in my view are not going to take the kind of steps that would bring the north koreans to their knees. the kind of steps that would probably be required to force a change in north korean behavior e. at the end of the day, they will probably get away with it. we will probably see the last pattern with the last three tests. >> mike, thanks for that. 19 minutes after the hour. some other news this morning, an