anything is possible, but it seems more likely that kim is going to use both countries as leverage to play beijing and washington off each other, which is sort of typical north korea behavior, right? that s exactly the case here. in the past, he depended on the the regime depended on the soviet union, then russia. now of course there is the opportunity to work something out with the united states. they want to keep china a little off balance because china is so big and so present that they want china to want north korea. right. and they re right next door. so what was notable, know though, i thought, was kim and his tower raj traveled to singapore on a air china jet. there was some concern whether his own aircraft would make it. last month the president essentially throwing this into doubt, calling the whole thing off. at the time the spokesperson for