Richard Blumenthal actually said...

the ability to move 10 tons of cocaine in a mini-sub, if you have that ability you can also move a nuclear device.

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...