they are not testing they are still working on nuclear and missile programs. melissa: sure. maria: i want the u.s. in these talks. north korea have south korea interest at at heart. many of those interests overlap. we need our people there. pompeo and his team back in the region meeting with the north koreans directly because we are the ones we need to make sure our interests taken into account here. kennedy: certainly better for south korea if the united states is involved. south korea would much rather be aligned with the united states which has a free market system as opposed to china, which has, you know, flirts with free market principles but still very much culturally centralized system of government. and, you know, that s much more regressive for south korea. they want to get north korea off of that dependency and create a country of their own choosing. maria: we will see if the state department reengages they had cancelled last meeting with secretary pompeo. he has be