I am fdds president , founder, cliff may. I know most of you. I have met a lot of you. I am glad you are here. Todays event marks the release of a major new fdd report. Maximum pressure 2. 0 a plan for north korea. The report offers an actionable and multifaceted plan focused on the denuclearization of north korea. Today in north korea, we have a young mercurial, brutal, and ruthless despot, kim jongun, armed with Nuclear Weapons, and Ballistic Missiles, using both to threaten america and americas allies. Ot, kim jongun, armed with Nuclear Weapons, and Ballistic Missiles, using both to threaten america and americas allies. You may have seen reports earlier in the week in the Washington Times that a highlevel defector from north korea sent a letter to President Trump. The defector warned the administration that kim jongun is unlikely to give up his Nuclear Weapons absent significant pressure. Consistent with the recommendations and fdds new report, which will be discussed today, the def
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming for this working with lunch council of Foreign Relations you all know mr. Ashford ash carter we will open up to all of you for questions so take notes and keep thinking of questions and i will come to you in a bit. I do want to tell you that during the qanda portion later on and i will remind you of this at the time, this will be on the record. Good to see you. Thank you, margaret. I appreciate that. The last time i interviewed you we were on some kind of vessel off estonia and you are carrying out a military buildup in response to russia. It was part of after a quartercentury we didnt have a war plan. Its kind of interesting to reflect on all the plans when i started that i worked on conventional and nuclear then we didnt do that anymore for about 25 years and then it became apparent to me whatever six years or so ago that we needed to plan. Thats when we began positioning the forces in different ways in europe, but the particular reason
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming for this working with lunch council of Foreign Relations you all know mr. Ashford ash carter we will open up to all of you for questions so take notes and keep thinking of questions and i will come to you in a bit. I do want to tell you that during the qanda portion later on and i will remind you of this at the time, this will be on the record. Good to see you. Thank you, margaret. I appreciate that. The last time i interviewed you we were on some kind of vessel off estonia and you are carrying out a military buildup in response to russia. It was part of after a quartercentury we didnt have a war plan. Its kind of interesting to reflect on all the plans when i started that i worked on conventional and nuclear then we didnt do that anymore for about 25 years and then it became apparent to me whatever six years or so ago that we needed to plan. Thats when we began positioning the forces in different ways in europe, but the particular reason
Post and victor has been a valuable valuable resource. Both obviously the past two years but even before that, i was bugging victor and others in the program quite often, maybe even times when i necessarily didnt want to for traffic analysis and to help me walk through what is happening in the one that i need to think, the koreans are for that and congratulate you for successful tenures. I am a reporter for the Washington Post and a cover the white house and ive been doing that for about seven or eight years for the obama ministration and other past two and half are President Trump. It is been quite an experience shifting between the two. But one thing i focus on the entire time is agent policy. It is so important starting with president obama pivot to asia. It is my great honor to be hosting this panel and i wanted to say we will be discussing, theres three panels, will be discussing the alliance. But let me introduce the panel and then will have a healthy discussion about where we ar
Decades press journalist im a reporter at the Washington Post and victor has been a valuable valuable resource. Both obviously the past two years but even before that, i was bugging victor and others in the program quite often, maybe even times when i necessarily didnt want to for traffic analysis and to help me walk through what is happening in the one that i need to think, the koreans are for that and congratulate you for successful tenures. I am a reporter for the Washington Post and a cover the white house and ive been doing that for about seven or eight years for the obama ministration and other past two and half are President Trump. It is been quite an experience shifting between the two. But one thing i focus on the entire time is agent policy. It is so important starting with president obama pivot to asia. It is my great honor to be hosting this panel and i wanted to say we will be discussing, theres three panels, will be discussing the alliance. But let me introduce the panel