Jim Risch: “I think there's a lot of us, with what we hear about what's going on…”

On the recordJune 27, 2017

I think there's a lot of us, with what we hear about what's going on in North Korea and some of our other adversaries, that Russia certainly is a dangerous adversary, but when you have someone running a country like Kim Jong Un and with what we know about what he's probably going to do if his administration is threatened, I've got to tell you that you might be slightly off mark when you say that that Russia's the most dangerous adversary that we face.

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Jim Risch

Republican · Idaho

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Risch argues that North Korea may be a more dangerous adversary than Russia.

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Jim Risch: “I think there's a lot of us, with what we hear about what's going on in North Korea and some of our other adversaries…”

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