will launch action. so the back and forth continues. all the while the u.s. is involved in joint military activity, exercises, with south korea. are those ongoing and are those adding any fuel to the tensions? yes. those are scheduled to continue for another week or so natalie. and whenever they happen, whenever the united states and south korea get their militaries together for the joint drills we always have this kind of billes could rhetoric coming from north korea. something that greatly angers the regime of kim jong-un they say that they see it as an act of provocation and act of war on the weekend we saw threats against the united states over these joint drills. it was at the threatening to attack the u.s. mainland if the joint drills between the u.s. and south korean military don t stop but they are ongoing and that is contributing to this increasingly tense atmosphere here, natalie. all right, kathy novak for us there. and we also have a development