For it. north korea takes on the world. welcome, welcome, gordon, thanks for being with me. thanks so much. what do you make of the latest incident. what we have is a cycle of escalation which has continued pretty deep into this series of events because you have the land mine explosions that brian todd talked about, the south korean propaganda broadcasts. north korea s counter broadcasts and now this exchange of fire. this could be serious largely because kim jong-un is in a precarious position. he needs a good incident to bolster his position at home and this is the perfect opportunity for him to cause some problems on the korean peninsula which can radiate out through north asia and affect the united states. so south korea has vowed to push back harder when north k korea does something it doesn t