month. what do you know about that meeting? >> reporter: we know that this was a secret meeting. there is an absence of normal relations between the united states and north korea. we don't have any direct diplomatic ties to north korea. but what i can tell you is that this was a back channel meeting. there are regular back channel meetings with the u.s. envoy to the six-party talks and north korean vice deputy, ambassador to the united nations, something done in new york. the united states expressing what they wanted was a return to diplomacy with pyongyang. the official to pyongyang saying we're going to communicate that to north korea but apparently, erin, it wasn't either communicated well or they're not listening because we are where we are. >> thanks, kyung. now george little. george, north korea is warning something could happen april 10th and it is april 10th in north korea. should we brace ourselves? >> erin, it would be unsurprised if they decided to conduct a missile launch in the near future. they have done that in the past. hopefully they exercise restraint and do not undertake this kind of irresponsible and provocative act. if they did conduct a missile launch it would be in violation of international obligations and time for them to come in compliance with those obligations. >> if they did some sort of a launch, a test, and they have done this before, given this time what's happening, would that spark retaliation from the