and south korea, scott snyder is a senior fellow for korea studies at the council on foreign relations. he joined us from washington, d. c. s. scott, these latest missiles that were launched is this purely in response to the joint us south korean military drills? or is there any other message being sent here by north korea. busy the north koreans themselves have said that the latest tests are directly response to us or ok military drills. and i do believe that we have moved into a kind of tit for tat phase as the u. s. and so we are planning to do a number of other military roles over the course the next few weeks. and so north korea, i think basically wants to deter the u. s. and saw korea from doing military drills . us at south korea would like to deter north korea from conducting additional missile tass. but that's not really what deterrence does. it's really just about trying to prevent the other. so raising the cost to the other side of potential conflict or war. and so i think that one of the problems, we have insurance competition, but the objectives on both sides are unrealist

since martin al jazeera was scott snyder, the senior fellow for korea studies at the council on foreign relations. he says both sides on a cycle of reacting to each other. busy the north koreans themselves have said that the latest tests are directly response to us are okay. military drills and i do believe that we have moved into a kind of chip for tap phase as the u. s. and south korea are planning to do a number of other military hills over the course of the next few weeks. and so north korea, i think basically wants to deter the u. s. and south korea from doing military drills. us at south gray. i would like to deter north korea from conducting additional missile tests, but that's not really what deterrence does. it's really just about trying to prevent the other. so raising the costs to the other side of potential conflict or war. and so i think that one of the problems, we have a deterrence competition, but the objectives on both sides are unrealistic. i think they can be escalated, but i think that it's likely to continue to escalate for being ne, i think needs crisis in order to

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