Many americans, for the first time, are starting to think a lot harder about north korea, the potential threat, and what it means for them. Everybody in washington is thinking about it. I am glad you are here and im glad to be part of this. I am joined by four panelists to bring a wide range of perspective on north korea. First is our host, frank, who is the u. S. Institute of pieces expert focusing on issues from 2001 until this year. He served as the Senior Adviser for north korea in the office of secretary of defense. Welcome. [applause] he is your host, after all. Jean lee is here. The First American granted access to north korea. She became the chief of the pyongyang bureau. [applause] she is a colleague in the press. Former reporter. Todd anthony is a senior fellow at the foundation. He is a former government expert on targeted financial measures, sanctions against hostile regimes. He is here to guide us through some of the questions of sanctions. It is good to have you, anthony.
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Advances under kim jongun. President trump vowed to confront north korea during his recent visit to poland. Joining a me now is a david sanger, National Security correspondent for the the new york times. He wrote this story experts say north korea could have a missile reach u. S. By next year. What changed . David a couple of things have changed. The shortterm thing is what you mentioned, which is, they conducted this test. It was done in a high parabola, 1700 miles and came down. It didnt go far in distance, but anybody that knows anything about Missile Technology knows that flattening it out isnt hard. Politically they decided not to do that, because the reaction if you drop one of these things off the coast of l. A. Or something is going to be a lot greater than if you do this high parabola test. The test was actually more useful to them, because of what they need to figure out is, can they make a warhead reenter the atmosphere and not burn up . That issue took us a lot of time in t
Atm limits. Extending the qe program 32017. They await the opec talks. Concerns independent producers may not reduce output. A landmark day for south korea as they are set to impeach President Park geunhye. More in a story, just ahead. Lets take a quick look on how the markets are looking. Haidi is standing by. Haidi we are getting a picture here, we have the Southeast Asian markets, taiwan getting on board today. Andness through malaysia singapore just keeping its head above water. Investors the sense are trying to take the time to digest what the ecb trajectory is. We look like we are on the cusp of a taper. Also, critically removing some of these key technicalities so the ecb has greater control over this aspect of the program. We are seeing nice gains from tokyo. Extending that rally 2. 7 . Yen, 114 at the moment. That is lending support to retailers. Weakness coming through from new zealand, down by. 4 . We do have a shift in policy. Driving the kiwi dollar to a high. Ofy have sai
I want to make sure that we have the opportunity to recognize them this morning. Yes. Ms. Bordallo would you kindly stand up, please . Chairman wittman i knew it. [laughter] chairman wittman i knew it, i knew it. Fantastic. She always does, she only does. Good morning. I want to think all of you for being here for the readiness hearing on the 2017 budget requests and readiness posture. This is the first of four hearings, and in december and january the services testified on increase readiness risks. Heg how the air force budget request enables a readiness Recovery Plan and where we continue to take risk. Welcome all of our experts. This morning we have with this general david goldfein, within a general john raymond, then a general Lieutenant General john cooper. Thank you all for testifying today. We look forward to your thoughts and insights on these important issues. The purpose of this hearing for the committee to receive clarification on air force choices for its budget request. Fu