region, the consecutive miss. alt has are also great threats to the international community where daniel kingston is electra and it's national relations at troy university. he says the launch puts pressure on whoever wins. south korea is upcoming presidential election. these tests serve a number of purposes and this checks a lot of boxes for them on the list. so there are, 1st of all their engineering reasons. so you test missiles to verify the design for systems that are under development systems that are already deployed. you want to test the reliability. secondly, you would test missiles as part of the military exercise. you test your command and control systems. see how the missiles would work in the context of military operations. and then 3rd, there's political c signaling which cannot really be separated from it. and there are a number of intended audiences with different messages from the big powers in the international system. the un security council, the u. s. regional actors also on the korean peninsula, there's a presidential election coming up in south brian just a little over a mont