white house officials believe china is key to trying to stabilize the whole situation, calm it down on the korean peninsula in large part, because of china s own ties with north korea, a critical link for the u.s. they have the kind of relationship we don t in terms of the conversations they can have. also note it is interesting, this morning here in high high the president had a phone call with the russian president, medvedev, but they called about the new s.t.a.r.t. treaty and how happy they are that that moved through the u.s. senate but let s fourth forget that russia was part of the six had-party talks, trying to diffuse the situation with north korea, the six-party talks about been stall bud you can bet that president obama, he says this white house statement that he wants close cooperation with russia and in new year, it is not just about the start treaty, not just about iran it is about north korea as well. i can tell you here in hawaii earthquake the president does have some n