Richard Blumenthal actually said...

China is, I think de facto, the only real, so to speak, ally that North Korea would have.

I am concerned as much about the threat that North Korea poses in terms of nuclear proliferation over the long-term as the immediate tension...

the urgency of that recommendation is all the more prescient now in the world with the increased building of those submarines by other count...

I want to turn now to an area that I think is very important to our national security: our submarine building program.