The U.S. Army’s top man in the Pacific region, Lieutenant General Francis J. Wiercinski, spoke at The Pentagon on Monday.

During a wide-ranging news conference, he touched upon the current situation on the Korean peninsula when asked by a reporter.

“I’ve seen this for 34 years — cyclical provocation with the grandfather, the father and now the son. It’s nothing that I wouldn’t have not expected. However, I would think that this time it was a tenuous situation. For the first time, we deployed theater ballistic missile defense to Guam in protection of the homeland,” he said.

“They have a demonstrated