with you. i just like the imagery of the president meeting with the head of state of vietnam, the large trade deal. it s just sending a powerful message to north korea that it pays to be america s friend. and that if north korea was to move towards capitalism and normalizing relations, there should be great benefits. shannon: bruce, there was an interesting article in the wall street journal that we talked about earlier with general keane that says the economy there doesn t seem to be is doing as badly as some people would have hoped or expected at least for the purposes of getting them to truly negotiate. the thing with opening up to the outside world, they see about is opening themselves to the contagion of outside influence, so they are very reluctant to have economic engagement except if it s on their terms. they will have literally hauled off enclaves where they will have foreigners in there to try to make money to sort of throw over the wall to keep the socialist economy