u.s. to revert some sort of disaster reaching out and talking to them? >> look, wolf, can we just be clear about what i said on your program before, never have i intimated that there's any question of any appeasement or any threats of provocations right now. what i'm talking about is the broader way of how do you deal with north korea. i was in north korea after chris hill very successfully negotiated several real sort of game changing agreements. brought over the orchestra, but beyond that, the whole sort of closing down and disabling of the yongbyon reactor, so one can see the benefits of diplomacy working. right now, as we know, what's happening is the united states is hoping that china will be able to play that critical role and that china is going to, they hope, be able to have the kind of leverage that hasn't yet been