 because it is a place where in the region the U.S. is trying many, many different ways to provoke China to instigate war. The DPRK is a separate entity, of course, but the question of peace and war in the region can't be disconnected to the question of peace and war in the peninsula. And so by actively provoking a situation there, that's building up towards a regional conflict that will involve these other primary rivals that the United States has identified.