at least between this sitting government, has been very close and they've been working in tandem to make sure that these negotiations have someth sort o prospects for success. no one is under any other impression this is going to beu an incredibly difficult hallenge, as some of our other guests have been anoting, the life insurance policy, the existential threat north korea feels just by the presence of those 28,000 troops. a little bit on the logistics here, it's about a 20 to 25-minute helicopter ride away from yongsan garrison. the anpool, the group that travs with the president, left there about five minuteshe ago. so just doing some public math here, dorichard, i think we can expect the president to land at the dedmz in about 20 minutes o so. somete back and forth on that. but that gives you a sense of just how quickly this is all moving. now, the president said he'dui been thinking about thisre for long timehi and only broached i yesterday publicly on twitter. we don't know to what extent there w had been back channel conversations to grease this up. and the trump administration wouldn't exactly come clean on that on how much of this had