today, and we were talking about the latest round of test missile launches coming from north korea. eight in total since may 4th. so tensions certainly rising. it's getting complicated when it comes to trying to fully understand what the north is proving with these short-range missile launches. and of course, monitoring them and understanding the intelligence and the classified information shared amongst japan, south korea, and the u.s. is crucial at this time. so to suggest that we're at a point where japan and south korea won't have information going back and forth, that would put the u.s. right in the middle. the former commander of the u.s.-south korean forces here in south korea, he explained this as a very complicated situation now going forward. he said before this pact was in place in 2016, it worked as though japan found something that might be interesting, saw something on surveillance data-wise that maybe impacted south korea, they would have to reach out to the u.s. and say this is the information we have.