president lee and people of south korea for extraordinary progress you ve made. a strong, prosperus democracy is an example to others in this region and around the world. thank you. thank you. so if you re joining us, you re watching a press conference in south korea with president lee and with our president, president obama. both of them are having an opportunity to speak, we re being told they re each going to speak twice and then take questions. while president lee is making a statement and its not in english we re going to go to our white house correspondent who is there in the room. wendel what is your take? what is your impression and what s happening there so far? well, i hate to correct you. i m not in the room with the president. i m in a nearby filing center