So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. We do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. Hopefully the introductions do not consume our full morning, but we certainly welcome all the good comments. So senator cassidy. Madam chair, what a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. But its a privilege to represent my fellow
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Relations and with the center for strategic studies here in washington, he says that military force against the regime has to be an option and believes that kim jongun will quote, do whatever he can to keep up the Nuclear Capability, his comments are about 45 minutes. applause well thank you very much john i appreciate the kind words of introduction and i want to thank the center for Strategic International studies and the host of todays forum for their invitation to speak, i think this is the ninth or tenth such forum and it is a great opportunity, very timely to discuss very critical issues, i also want to congratulate csis and john and victor cha, for this is also the tenth anniversary of a korea chair at csis, so it marks a decade of contributions that the chairs nonpartisan objective research has made to the Public Policy to debate on korean issues that are so important to the American People and to the korean people, its really been a significant accomplishment for all of us csis