general, regardless of what is going on in north korea, that hasnothing there a significant impact as far as a critical -- as far as the critical issues and de- nuclearization. north korea is largely consistent with what i call the strategic arc of their longer- term goals. their longer-term goals were actually clarified in the proclamation of policy last year. we always knew that north korea eventually was hoping that the world would simply just be worn out and tolerate and learn to live with a nuclear north korea and then it could begin to recover its economy and restore some type of relations with the outside. in other words, have their weapons and their economic development. that has been a longer-term goal. going forward, one would imagine that is what kim jong-un is shooting for. recent developments speculating on those -- i don't think it would be particularly helpful -- what is clear is we see no policy changes so far. to see policy changes but we have not seen any. >> how do you think we are doing with china right now? >> we have had some good cooperation with china. we had s