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Cnn correspondent mike choy who is a senior fellow at the china institute at the university of southern california and dr. jim walsh who san expert on foreign policy especially asia at m.i.t. jim, let me start with you. what is your biggest concern right now? well, my biggest concern is that someone is going to make a mistake and we almost saw it two weeks ago with the shellings. it was not widely reported in the united states, but south korea in the middle of the crisis accidentally shot an artillery shell near the dmz and had to call north kree eya it w korea that it is a mistake, and i think that governor richardson is right, that it is time that someone, even if it is not a government official begin to talk to north korea so we end up in a place that nobody wants to be out of miscalculation or misperception or error, and that is my concern, and i believe there is a danger of that right now. jack pritchard, you were just ....
There in north korea, and what did you see there that concerned you? well, i asked to go to pyongyang, but what they did not reveal is that they we were in the process of developing a light reactor, and they had a new uranium enrichment facility, and that is new. with that i briefed dr. hechter who was able to follow me the next week and hopefully at my urging of theh koreans to go into the facility and see e that the north koreans have moved beyond their capability, and to the state-of-the-art with regard to uranium enrichment. mike choy, you have been to ....
Rule, you can t vote till you passed a quiz on what s in the bill. that will keep them shorter and thinner. maybe. on the other hand, they d probably just copy each other s answers. stacy in oregon, it s too sad for words, jack. there s not a thing americans can do or say which will make any difference. integrity is no longer a concern. isn t that something? and mike writes from florida, asking politicians which bills they read is like asking sarah palin which newspapers she reads. if you want to read more on this, go to my blog. suzanne. all right, we ll be reading it, jack, thank you. facebook s incenter, he may be time magazine s people of the year but everybody is talking about ginger. call it daring, call it crazy, how he tried to stop a gunman from hurting her colleagues armed only with her handbag. [ manager ] you know. ....
Confidence, and that is a difficult balancing act for china to pull off. and the fact that, mike choy, approval for me, a reporter from cnn, and also a report from the new york times to go along with bill richardson on this trip, and you have been there many times, and what does it say to you to let two journalists in? well, it is clear that the north koreans have important messages they want delivered on the trip and they want to get out to the general public and the political elite in washington. i suspect that the message going to be that we want to talk, and if we don t talk with the united states, there s going to be more trouble to come. there is one other really important point that needs to be addressed here, wolf. that is in south korea, you have a government with two episodes, the sink of the ship in march and the shelling of an island a couple of weeks ago where it did not respond militarily, and now ....