Doc, I would like to finish out here, but I am done, and I am going to be respectful of the committee's time.
U.S. global economic leadership and foreign assistance generates significant returns on investments here at home.
My goal... is to do a paradigm shift of getting away from aid and developing it from aid to trade.
I would think they should know that, that in 72 years, nobody has really tried to invade them.
For 20 years, we have responded to every North Korean provocation with either isolation or inducements to negotiate.
If North Korea attains the ability to reach American soil with a nuclear device, our Government will have failed the American people.
We can try to wean away North Korea's business partners.
And we are at a point where we can't afford to be weak.
How do you get the rest of the world to buy into that and say we need you at the table to do this?
North Korea's nuclear program has never been a bigger threat, and we need to respond with all the tools at our disposal.
The new administration has shown a willingness to embrace new thinking on the North Korea issue.