i'm joined today by bob franken, syndicated columnist and by margaret bryant, an expert -- margaret ryan, an expert from queens guys tv. -- from clean skies tv. we have had a bit of a problem on the korean peninsula. >> you have not heard much about that in the media. >> what they have done is the north koreans have sunk a south korean ship with a torpedo, or it is believed that is what happened. what are we going to do about this? >> you say there is a problem on the korean peninsula. i have not heard any reports in the media about it. north koreans have -- and >> north koreans have sunk a south korean ship. that is an act of war. >> this seems to have exposed a big weakness the united states has with its client state of south korea, and i feel it is fair to call them a client state ever since the korean war. that is, it is such a formidable war machine, if we were to do anything to antagonize the north koreans -- they are crazy enough -- and they can just turn to the south and do damage. and there are thousands of u.s. troops there. >> i think that what we are going to do is try to get