in south korea and japan. the south korean president was just here, i spoke with him. he has had some apprehensions about the deployment of thaad, because he wasn't aware of the implications. i would see this as an opportunity for him to say we're going forward with a full-scale thaad. the same should be said and encourage japan to do the same, not only to employ land-base systems in japan, but i would talk about japan having a cruise missile capability. so i think we can do things on a defensive basis that will make life much tougher for the north koreans if we, in fact, really imposed the sanctions that need to be imposed and say to the north korean regime, if we're going to negotiate, we're going to negotiate on a basis which you don't gain. as you have been in the past. >> thaad is a missile defense system placed in south korea, just for the viewers. but the south korean leader had opposition because it felt it might be too provocative. it's there, but the question is