in leadership. that creates a situation they can't predict. >> it puts stability in play. what about this being a money shakedown they want the u.s. to dump a bunch of aid into north korea and sort of help that situation they are trying to push us in that direction? >> traditionally that has been our response to come up with some form of concession. we have been trying the diplomatic route in north korea for some time in part because there's no other option. a military response is not desireed by any one including china. so when we talk about what we really can do this is one of those situations where when faced with a decision tree there is really no branchs on there other than the one marked china. so we have to work with them. now it's a little bit disconcerting the obama administration the other day tried to push china publicly to protest against north korea. north korea is really the only