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Some conditions for peace, then we can expect that at some point we can realize we can achieve denuclearization. I think on this particular subject we can come back later. After that, we have dr. Paik. Thank you, chair. Id like to talk about the denuclearization process, which is critical to the peace building process on the Korean Peninsula. We had previously two Nuclear Crisis in Korean Peninsula. The first one was in 1992, and we had between the United States and dprk after that. And by the framework the north Korean Nuclear program had frozen for several years. But second Nuclear Crisis had come because of the uranium enrichment facilitys closure. And at the time there was party talks but this kind of effort ended significant progress towards the denuclearization. After 15 years, in 2017, dprk conducted its last nuclear test, confirming its Nuclear Capability. And International Community once again chose to sit at the negotiation table with the dprk, and we realized that the Curren
Thank you also to the folks from cspan who are watching and the folks that are streaming this live over the Atlantic Councils website. My name is william wechsler. I read the Atlantic Councils work in the middle east. Im the director for the center that is your host this afternoon. This question was a question that would not really have been asked only a decade ago. China does not have deep historical ties in the region. China has its economic connections were modest not that long ago. But now its a question that many people in the region are asking more and more. Many people in the u. S. Economic, diplomatic, intelligence and military apparatus are asking more and more. Many people in china are asking more and more about how they approach this region as part of their wider belt and Road Initiative, as part of their wider diplomatic initiatives, as part of their need for Energy Resources. What we see right now is the economic relationship between china and the middle east is deep and d
test captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 the navy has a program of record to buy 70 m q4 c triedens, 60 operational models and two early models. i m not sure exactly what they re calling them. those 68 aircraft are purchased over the lifetime of this acquisition program. the operational requirement is for five orbits, the way we describe how an isr of this size deploys, five orbits of four planes apiece, 20 airplanes worldwide, 20 airplanes worldwide. we started to think, okay, that s our major the navy s major isr platform to fill this targeting problem. could they do could they pull off this 365-day a year, 24/7 targeting problem for the island chain? we assumed no friendly or allied contributions to this. that s probably not reasonable. we will likely have some friends and allies helping us locate aggressor surface platforms. but for the purposes of our inquiry, we wanted to focus on our ability to support an operation
Thank you, ambassador, for being here and thank you as well for being on the panel. I have yet to good to kuwait, the last time i had been there with 1990 during the gulf war. I got to take a second picture next to the two spirit towers, this time whats that . There you go, liberation towers. It was good to be back, but more importantly to see this Coalition Come together not only in the private sector and having 64 nation theres, but also, like you said, ambassador, seeing the iraqis out front, talking about the country, talking about not only Economic Opportunities in iraq, but also about humanitarian situation. One of the things the first day of the conference was great. The press was able to ask questions of not only Prime Minister abadi but also the kuwaitty Prime Minister and the deputy minister and the foreign mince sterp. The iraq i can press asked some of the toughest question. They warned dont go on a stage with mike pregent, hes going to ask tough questions. The iraq i can p