there will never be a friendly solution to the north korea problem if this continues to happen. i want to bring in hans nichols who knows this better than anyone. hans, explain this situation to us. what s going on, and what is the president saying here? one could argue it doesn t seem like the president and secretary of state are on the same page. well, it looks like the president wants to put a little more pressure on north korea and china than the secretary of state tillerson is willing to in his op-ed. we ve seen the president zig and zag with his tweets on china. sometimes very praiseworthy of president xi, other times harshly critical. today, although he didn t mention xi by name, he seemed to indicate he wanted to see more and was in the camp that china isn t doing enough. he s vacillated on this. the specific charge today has to do with oil transfers from chinese vessel ships, chinese flagged ships to north korea. it was back in november the treasury department released satel