washington and seoul. these joint military maneuvers are the focal point of all of this. these always perturb north korea. this is something the u.s. and south korea want to maintain. they want to stand up to north korea and its threats. the north koreans want to send the message that we can come right back, we will do something that we know you don't like, that's launch one of our missiles, or now perhaps two missiles. this is said to be a musudan missile that is not well tested. that's not been confirmed by south korea's defense ministry. tested or not, if it goes into this phase, if they fire it, it will cause everyone else to react. react they did. this is the state department spokeswoman. >> when you have a country that is making the kinds of bellicose threats they are making and