reasonable broker attempting to be the reasonable broker of some kind of deal with north korea. reporter: yeah. sounding like it, lawrence. we are here in russia on the pacific coast, 14 time zones away from you. so while it s evening here, it s after midday on thursday here. and there is a president here posing as a peacemaker and his name is vladamir putin. he met with the leader of south korea. he is now here on thursday, right now meeting with the leader of japan, prime minister abe, a man who just nine days ago saw a north korean missile fired over his territory. but vladamir putin is on a side. he s taking sides.