Angus King

It is particularly challenging in a country that values free expression.

The government has taken little action to counter these threats.

We have got to be educated. Our public has to understand that this is a whole new level of--way of manipulating.

I think one of our big gaps when we talk about what do we need to do, a policy and a strategy, as the chairman has mentioned, is absolutely critical because right now deterrence does not work unless there is a strategy and unless we know…

Senator Rounds and I supported an amendment that got into the National Defense Act last year.

I think cyber shows that much of what we are seeing is a national security issue.

We do not ask the private sector to defend themselves against Russian bombs or missile attacks from North Korea.

I really think the term should be 'whole-of-society.'

I would suggest that wargaming and stress-testing would be very important, particularly where you do not have direct control over these assets.

Success is not winning. Success is learning.

I urge you to set your general counsel loose on that issue.

I am gravely concerned because, as you have testified, your capacity is very dependent upon commercial partners. You said that every CEO says they are safe, and I do not believe it.

As I talk to people in Maine, they are surprised to learn that Seoul is about 30 miles from the North Korean border.

If I were China, I would not want a nuclear-armed guy right on my border who could threaten me.

I believe that my part of this problem set is to provide that credible combat power in the face of North Korean provocation.

Part of the settlement in that case was we had a military force and the threat of military force.

I think Kim Jong un has elevated that to a cycle of provocation, provocation, provocation.

The other problem that I think deserves attention is that North Korea is a serial proliferator of nuclear technology.

We have a seamless cooperation and agreement, arrangement, and working relationship with the Canadians in terms of NORAD?

This is a place where we really are in a serious deficit situation.

But the one that we have actually transits between Antarctica and the Arctic. Is that not correct?

A cut in the Coast Guard budget, which would further constrain the provision of those assets, would not be in the national interest.

It is an attack on our country.

The nuclear posture review that is going on--I am looking forward to the results of that.

I just do not want command and control to be lost when we are talking about submarines and bombers.