than stopping north korea. we always go to bay sing to look for help. we have spent the only currency that matters now and that is time. jon: it s been a wrong-headed approach would be your argument, or so it sounds. yeah, it hasn t worked, right now i think we have to start looking to ourselves for our security, because right now we are getting down to a period where we don t have the luxury and time to try to do these big things. what we have to do is we have to start the north korean missile program because it s attached to their nuclear program which is also attached to the iranian missile and nuclear programs. jon: to play devil s advocate here there are a awful lot of nations in the world that has the capability of launching missiles into space. so what this north korea is now one of them. we are not too concerned about britain or finance land or norway but we are concerned about a regime who has in the past used violence to upset status quos that it has found to be unaccepta
struggling to find food and water. so what can we do to help? joining us on the phone, francis marcus of the international federation of red cross and fred crescent societies. you flew in from bay sing to china. describe what you vbeijing toch. describe what you ve seen. reporter: i ve been here basically supporting them with communications. my colleagues who have been on the ground in the disaster area have seen harrowing scenes of complete communities obliterated and washed away, and many of them are saying that this is some of the worst destruction in any disaster they ve ever seen. jon: since this thing hit on friday do we even have a full handle on the scope of it? i mean i know that in some of those northern cities and towns along the coast they just haven t been able to get transportation there and information out.
nuclear showdown china takes on the world and the coming collapse of china. what about the timing of this. are you surprised? secretary gates was going to go to bay sing to clear off the military issues when the president of china aeu arrives for his january 19th summit with president obama. they don t want the things like taiwan and military relations to cloud the summit. they thought that secretary gates would be able to get them out of the way. jon: it also comes against the interesting back drops of those photos coming out being released and some think they were essentially leaked by the official chinese government of that new stealth fighter prototype that the chinese are testing. if they get such a weapon it seriously changes the balance of power in the pacific, doesn t it? it certainly does, because secretary gates stopped production of the f22 which is our stealth fighter. we are reflying on the f35 which is a less capable plane.