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Places, i'm consistently amazed by the willingness of our diplomatic corps to put their lives at risk. and i wonder how do you balance that very difficult decision? because, frankly, what i've heard more often from that diplomatic corps is that they chafe at the restrictions. i mean, i remember vividly being, you know, i didn't like the ride from the airport to the embassy which was ten minutes, and we were there for, i don't know, a few hours and then out. you know, the state department personnel, they lived there and went out amongst the community. how do you try and strike that balance of, ...

Have traveled to pakistan and afghanistan, yemen and other places, i am consistently amazed by the willingness of our diplomatic corps to put their lives at risk. and i wonder how do you balance that very difficult decision? because frankly, what i've heard more often from the diplomatic corps is that they chafe at the restrictions. i mean, i remember vividly being in peshawar which is -- i didn't like the ride from the airport to the embassy, which was ten minutes, and we were there for i don't know, a few hours and then out. the state department personnel, they lived there and went out among...

Consistently amazed by the willingness of our diplomatic corps to put their lives at risk. i wonder how do you balance that very difficult decision. what i've heard more often is they chafe at the restrictions. i remember vividly being in peshawar, which is, you know, i didn't like the ride from the airport to the embassy, which was ten minutes, and we were there for, i don't know, a few hours, and then out. you know, the state department personnel, they live there. and went out amongst the community. how do you try and strike that balance of, you know, being present at the same time meeting t...

How do you think the admission has handled it? how do you defuse this crisis? >> i don't have much qualms with the way they've handled it, to be quite frank. i think they've taken the right steps to protect the united states and to make very clear that we are going to live up to our security obligations to our allies in the reswron. the truth of the matter is that i think it's a mistake to view north korea can as a government. it is more like a criminal syndicate. and this young man now in charge of government there is even more erratic, as hard as it is to believe, than his predecessors. it's...

Launch from kim jong-un. how do you think the admission has handled it? how do you defuse this crisis? >> i don't have much qualms with the way they've handled it, to be quite frank. i think they've taken the right steps to protect the united states and to make very clear that we are going to live up to our security obligations to our allies in the reswron. the truth of the matter is that i think it's a mistake to view north korea can as a government. it is more like a criminal syndicate. and this young man now in charge of government there is even more erratic, as hard as it is to believe, th...