recently, in 2004, 2005, john burton actually was pro tem, has a hearing room named after him.it was his brother phillip that went from the assembly straight to congress representing the bay area. a number of our lawmakers have gone on to careers representing californians in the united states congress. there are some interesting things around the room itself. the portrait of abraham lincoln, for instance, is above the speaker's rostrum. a portrait of george washington hangs over the leadership desk. the picture of lincoln is actually done by cogswell who was an artist who steketched lincoln and did paintings from his sketches during the civil war. abraham lincoln in 1900, 1910, would have been considered a -- as significant as george washington would have been. so you had two significant presidents hanging in our chambers with the reminder that we are connected to the united states. california being so far west and not a lot in between, the idea that we would create the look of the capitol with as close to what the united states capitol looked like, we were the wild west, build

. >> john burton with the korea times. there has been a lot of attention paid lately in the media about the american air campaign against north korea during the korean war. it is one explanation for why north korea wanted to eventually acquire a nuclear weapon. it is interesting to see that there is a debate -- bruce cummings has paid attention to this for a long time. the north koreans are using this as justification for their nuclear program. it was interesting to see brian blog countering that. it doesn't play a strong role in north korean mythology about the war. i would like your comments on that. michael: there is no doubt that the bombing of north korea was extensive. it was the first war in which napalm was used in air campaigns. on a relentless basis. it had been used in world war ii in the bombing of tokyo, but korea took it to the next level. however by the end of the fighting in 1953, most analysts of the war and its strategy point out that there weren't really many targets left in north korea. almost all the p

. >> john burton with the create times.president moon right now is overseeing the biggest defense buildup of the south korean military forces in 30 years. he's made it quite clear that the purpose of this is to reduce dependence on the u.s. military. do you think that the chinese would look at this as a encouraging sign since it would appear that he is trying to shuffle off u.s. forces from the korean peninsula, and my other question is, there's also been some talk about south korea gaining its own independent nuclear capacity. do you think that south korea would go down that route and what would also chinese's reaction to that be? >> you said south korea objected to adding antimissile batteries? >> we'll take more questions. over there. yeah. >> hi. my name is beverly holmes. i was a faculty member here at gw. i agree with dr. brazinsky very much. my question is to the doctor, who is the present day kissinger that we can send to negotiate this? i was one of the early visitors to china and i published a paper at the "washin

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