it could sit down andtalk it a western leader of some state and come out of it looking not like complete crazi in that respect. so i guess in thatrespect, you know it's kind of still in the north koreas cot and although we'll certaly have to see just outinitiatives move forward and who makes the next move. right now the north koreans ve said we will talk to the americanone on one. the obama ministration has said, we'll talko the north koreans only in the framework o the six-powertalks includin china. in some rescts it still hasn't med that far off ofhe stalemate from fore, except atmosprically perhaps. >> it's sch a secretive sciety to us, north kore sohat now ll clintoneturns with perhapthe most iel that america has h about the leadership of that bizarre country. an we've had in a decade >> well, when you talk to senr officials in wasngton, i was down there a couplef weeks ago, and you're always surprised by how litt we know abt rth korea. mo our information, our best informion is probably coming from the chinese. you really d't have, a david was menoning earlier, th japanese fear of in