of the korean peninsula, that they would like to take steps to bring a formal end to the korean war and like to see progress towards normalization of relations. one specific thing i would really like to see the north koreans commit to i don t know if it s too early, but for them to commit to rejoin the nuclear nonproliferation treaty which they withdrew from in 2003, which kind of set the stage for the development of nuclear weapons. laying ow the potential plan that might work there. i appreciate it, ambassador. thank you. thank you. let s bring in rolling stone senior writer and professor of korean studies. we re looking at the president and you heard the ambassador say here a lot of personal time from this president into this very topic. this potential meeting. now they re saying on in singapore. i think that s the big mistake. you don t want to heighten
u.s. military strikes. how is this playing out this morning in syria? playing ow as greut as a gre victory for assad. demonstrations well planned, put together by the government. you know this as well as anybody i think. the way, arab authoritarian governments will spin things in their favor. not a hard thing to do on this one the we played sort of a three day bad game of hide-and-se hide-and-seek. the president said he will strike syria. most locations have the equipment moved out of those areas. especially out of the hangars, chemical weapon sites were wound down, 72 hours ago. now assad is saying on, on, state run television that he has thwarted, the surviving and defiance in itself is victory. calling it the three headed monster, united kingdom, united states, france, carrying out the attack. saying they shot down almost all of the missiles. battlefield is complex.
it s choice. he wants voters to see the selection as a choice election. his vision, his set of policies, his actions versus mitt romney s vision and his policies as defined mostly by the ryan budget plan that mitt romney has endorses. and mitt romney, of course wants this election to be not a choice but wants voters to be angry at obama, angry about the election. he wants them to vet, this wants this to be a venting election and obama wants to say there s a rational choice that our future will depend upon what you do. and that s what he laid out here. i think, as we get further into the campaign, he s going to have to move from the professorial explanation of the choice and make it connect on an emotional level as well. but there may be one or two days left before november in which that can be done. do you agree with david s analysis, this was about the president laying ow the stark contrast with romney? and i listens to every word of