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Assertive abroad. Thats just what we are doing. Thats something that we are addressing with this Regional Security strategy. Admiral harris, as i indicated in my opening remarks, theres concern about north korea. I recall when we met in singapore, you expressed significant concern. Can you just briefly give us your latest update about north korean activities . I might add, since china shared a border with north korea, are they at all being helpful or do they recognize the threat . Senator, i believe that as i have said before the north korea is the greatest threat that i face in the pacific as Pacific Commander. I think you have a leader in north korea who has Nuclear Weapons and is seeking to deliver them intercontinentally. That causes me great concern. He has 20 to 30,000 artillery pieces within a range of seou ....
The case. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you both for testifying today. Admiral, in your testimony you point out that we insist that all Maritime Claims be deraved from naturally formed land features in accordance with International Laws reflected in the law of the Sea Convention. Are we at any kind of a disadvantage because we havent been a signatory to the law of the Sea Convention . Senator, i believe we are at a disadvantage because we dont have the moral high ground that other countries who are cigna tors, including china and russia have. So when china makes these outrageous claims in the South China Sea, and the philippines challenges one of those claims and we support the phili ....
Has helped us confront common threats that bring terrorists to justice. But there is obviously room for us to be able to do more. When terrorist attacks took 400 indian lives in 2013 alone, we know that the threat of terrorism remains too real and far too hy for indy ats people. Confronting terrorism requires our continued partnership and continued vigilance and it also means leading with our values. Indy and the United States are two nations that have worked hard to overcome our own divisions so that today we draw strength from diversity. We have got to provide that example to provide opportunity beyond our borders addressing conditions that allow extremists to thrive in the first place. We talked candidly and he said to me i asked him about their Muslim Population and what was happening, he said x percentage of the population is muslim and we are very wary because the bad ....
No, it doesnt mean that yet. Its a Significant Development along that path. But there are other technological hurdles our sources say to doing that. You have to be able to build a missile and warhead that survives reentry and you have to have a reliable missile system. And of course u. S. Intelligence inside north korea is very limited. We dont know what we dont know, so there is significant question as to what their capabilities actually are. This assessment speeds up the time table and subjects that they have achieved miniaturization much sooner than previously had been understood. And how did we miss this . How did it happen so much faster that be we thought it would . Well, in a sense this is something that many analysts have been saying, they are two years away, five years away. And now its finally now arrived. All right. Stand by for me. General, what does this mean for our relationship with north korea now moving f ....