we have paul acker, the the former asia correspondent for thomson reuters, spent over 20 years workingon korea and japan on east asia we have the director and founder of nk news. we have the bureau chief and washington correspondent for the korean broadcasting system, and we have the washington correspondent for the daily newspaper. we are going to start, i am going to ask each of you two in three or four minutes just make an opening statement describing what you think, how you perceive 's, what our car for you, the you, the greatest challenges to reporting, writing on north korea? so, what are the challenges, the pitfalls of reporting on north korea? >> first i would like to commend the university and the wilson center for including this topic in today's forum. i imagine that most of us here today other disseminate information or consume information. so it is always good to take a step back and really look critically at the quality of the coverage and to try to find ways to help journalists improve the coverage or improve the environment for coverage. so i will just make a couple poin