more recently kim jon un indicated the willingness to sort of talk with south korea government. then congressman, you are the expert in the political economy. [laughter] let me just stop here. >> i would concur. i was in korea last spring, and it was whenever the united states has a joint military exercises with south korea, somebody in north korea gets bent out of shape. as i was there, i turned on the television, and a network, whose name i will not mention, was talking about south korea going to the subway and exercises for some type of a military assault on the north. the stores were jammed, the streets were jammed, i called my wife and said everything is fine. the -- the the, you know, continues but, you know, it's very interesting is the fact you're going see china when this is a lot of profit or anything china is very much concerned over what happened to kim jon un's uncle because one of the reasons why he was executed was because a portion of real estate was sold, i guess, in the -- industrial area, and the chinese were amazed because that's the joint effort. .. with the