place in newn took york city and was hosted by the asia society. korea and a personal i am a begin with, relative newcomer here. i started in the fall and i was a journalist for nearly three decades before that. in thinking about tonight program, i was reminded about something that happens fairly frequently when you were on the international desk, as i was for many years, and something that happened to international news editors the world over. call, oftent a during the day, but quite often it was the middle of the night. kim jong-il and kim jong-un, kim il-sung, has said they want to rain fire on south korea. to destroy the american aggressors. he was to take a shot at japan. lot more thanas a rhetoric. a vessel had been sunk, a south korean vessel. a missile had and launched, a bomb detonated. response aftere we race to digest the headlines and respond would be, don't worry it is all bluster, it is meant for internal consumption. everyone calm down. as many of you know, this spring in particular, calm down has seemed a bit off the mark. we have h