And combine forces command. You can see the last few minutes at cspan. Org. Now urban Affairs Hearing on diplomatic actions as the u. S. Seeks to deter north Koreas Nuclear program. We have asked each of our witnesses to shorten their Opening Statements to a couple of minutes each so we can get to opening request wes. I will ask the senator to follow the fe minute allocation for their questioning. Lets proceed. Thank you. Distinguished members of the committee im honored to appear before you to discuss the Treasury Departments strategy the destabilizing and repressing actions of north korea. Today i will share with you aspects of our strategy which we are executing at a pace. We are foe cussing on key financial vulnerability. It can be used to support directly oirn directly its Weapons Development programs. So a key part of our strategy is by targeting the regimes most profitable including coal, labor and sale of weapons and other goods. We represented dunzs that support these lines of
Capitol take you to hill where earlier today, state Department Officials talked about the effectiveness of sanctions on the north korean regime. This Senate Committee hearing is about one hour, 20 minutes. Good morning. Come to order. Our witnesses needs to leave by 10 30 a. M. To join secretary tillerson in china, and we also have a vote. To allow time to ask questions we will submit Opening Statements for the record, and we ask each witness to shorten their statements to a couple minutes so that we can get right to the questions. Obviously i will ask the senators to be very careful to follow the five minute allocation. First we will receive testimony from the undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and financial crimes. Following her, well have testimony from the acting assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. Without anything further, lets received. Let us proceed. Please proceed. Chairman and distinguished members of the committee i am honored to appear to
Today we consider how the United States should confront the full range of threats that iran poses to our National Security and poses to the security of our regional allies and partners and ill give you my view of this, but i believe that president obamas flawed nuclear deal was a gamble, a gamble that iran would choose to become a responsible actor, a country focused on prosperity for its people and security along its borders, and unfortunately and predictedly, the tehran regime clearly sees itself as a movement, one that uses ideology and violence to destabilize its neighbors, to threaten others, mainly the United States and israel. That is why we still hear death to israel, death to the United States. Israel is a one bomb country. Thats why we hear this. In iraq and syria, irans revolutionary guards have taken advantage of the fight against isis and theyre using their shock troops and militia to brutalize syrians and to seize much of the territory. As isis loses ground the risk is re
One of our witnesses, ms. Thosht needs to leave by 10 30 in order to join secretary tillerson on a trip to china and we have a vote at 10 30. In order to allow more senators time to ask their questions, senator brown and i have agreed to submit our Opening Statements for the record. And we have also asked each of our witnesses to shorten their open statements to just a couple minutes each so we can get right to the questions. Obviously, im also going to ask the senators to be very careful to follow the fiveminute allocation for their questioning. First we will receive testimony from the honorable siegel, the undersecretary of for terrorism and crimes. And following her Susan Thornton, acting assistant secretary of state for east asian and pacific affairs. Without anything further, lets proceed. Undersecretary, please proceed. Thank you. Chairman crapo, distinguished members of the committee, im honored to appear before you to discuss the Treasury Departments strategy to combat the prov
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