economic mean toss support that type of warfare, particularly in sere where. >> let's talk about one of the failed predictions from the cia back in 2000, that north and south korea have never unified, there's never been a peace deal to create a palestinian state alongside israel. in your opinion, have either of these opinions improved since the cia put together this assessment back in 2007? certainly not on the ground, but maybe behind the scenes, are you seeing or hearing things different than maybe we see out here? >> i think you see with israel and palestine, unfortunately a tragic continuation of the status quo. in korea, it's fas naturing that north korea is the only dine that issic -- kim jong-il would have died as early as he did and certainly would never have predicted his youngest and least known son to assent to the power s of north korea.