now. four-star general, served as vice chief of staff of the army and a fox news military analyst of course. jack, good to have you here this morning. >> good morning, martha. martha: general thurman, i know you know, said that he's concerned that he has never seen tensions quite like this on the peninsula. what do you think about his comments there? >> well i agree with him. we had this bellicose rhetoric that's come out of north korea, particularly about nuclear war in a way we've not seen before and intensity of it. he is not concerned about a nuclear war and he is not actually concerned about a conventional attack from the north to the south. what he concerned about we have a young leader trying to prove to his people that he is strong and capable and he stand up to what he calls u.s. aggression. he is fundamentally concerned about the north koreans miscalculating. he is not worried about what they say but what they could do that could escalate into something very serious. so that's why he requested