attack south korea or japan or the united states, we would reply quickly and unequivocally with overwhelming force. that s a statement of deterrence, we should be very clear on that. we should also bolster our defenses. many things we can do to bolster our defenses, keeping operational readiness as a force, not only in okinawa, but the forces in alaska, the forces of the fleet that supports should be kept in high levels of operational readiness. and we can do things to also bolster our defense by, for example, station aegis ships around guam or putting thadd missiles, we already put one in south korea, might consider another deployment of thadd, things to do to bolster our defenses. we should also be looking at diplomacy. and diplomacy in the past has been unsuccessful, but i think we can take a new look on it, diplomacy, diplomacy designed to