Tuesday. It comes a day after the Un Security Council unanimously voted to introduce new sanctions against korea. They specifically targeted natural gas and oil imports and textile exports. This is about 2. 5 hours. Conversation] before we get a full the hearing in, i would just like to remind audience members that disruption of Committee Proceedings is against the law and and will not be tolerated. Is permissible, holding up signs during the permissible during the hearing is not permissible. A suspensionult in of the proceedings until the Capitol Police can restore order. With that, i would like to call us to order here for our hearing this morning. The members to take their seats if you could. September 3, north korea detonated a Nuclear Device that according to news reports was stronger than all the previous tests combined. Representsen bomb the latest advancement in north nuclear andrunning Intercontinental Ballistic Missile programs which not pose an urgent threat to the United St
[inaudible conversations] before we tackle the hearing i would like to remind the audience members the disruption of proceedings is against the law and will not be tolerated also wearing themed shirts while seated in the room is certainly permissible holding up signs during the proceedings is not permissible and will be suspended until Capital Police can restore order. With that, i would like to call us to order for our hearing this morning and ask all the members to take their seats if you cou could. On september 3, north korea detonated a Nuclear Device thats according to news reports is stronger than any of the previous tests combined. This represents the latest advancement in north koreas Intercontinental Ballistic Missile programs which now posed an urgent threat to the United States. Moreover, the apparent speed in which the advancements have occurred are challenging the security structure across east asia creating dangerous instability in the region and that instability will lik
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Part one will be the gentleman sitting next to me, senator tom cotten from arkansas. Part two after his keynote address as well as q a will be a lively debate on Missile Defense with joe and rebecca from the henriksen institute. We want to spend as much time with senator cotton as possible so ill keep my remarks short. Washington is faced with severe challenges when it comes to missiles throughout the world. Obviously north korea is very much in the news due to the development of the short, medium and longrange missiles and the ability to actually hit the homeland at some point. Senator cotton has been at the forefront of advocating for a robust strategy. His remarks will be around 20 minutes. That will open the floor for questions for about 25 minutes. Keep in mind during the q a, the state your name and affiliation as we are on the record as you can see by the cameras. Also if time is limited, please keep your question compact and precise. With that, senator cotton. Thank you all for
Why dont we get started since time is short. Good afternoon, everyone. I serve as the director of defense studies here at the center for National Interest in washington, d. C. Welcome to our friends here with us in the flesh as well as those joining us on Facebook Live and as well as cspan 3. We present to you a real treat. Not one but two part discussion on u. S. Missile defense policy. Part one will be the gentleman sitting next to me on the right, senator tom cotton from arkansas. Part two, keynote address, as well as a q and a session. Now, im going to keep my remarks very brief as we want to spend as much time with senator cotton as possible. Obviously it goes without saying that washington faces severe challenges when it comes to the missiles and proliferation of missiles throughout the world. Obviously north koreas very much in the news it due to the developments of its short, long range missiles and its ability to actually at some point hit the homeland. Senator cotton has been