Daniel R. Russel: “Both the Republic of Korea and Japan are healthy, stable democracies. They are both important free-market economies.”

Regrettably, this is not an environment where any political leaders seem prepared to step up and to speak out forcefully in defense of the rights of the Muslim minority and particularly of the Rohingya.

What we are pushing for, Congressman, is for the military in Burma and for the government to exercise maximum restraint.

We entirely agree. And I think that as frustrated and unhappy as all of us are at North Korea's ability to continue to develop its missile and its nuclear programs, the scorecard of the administration shows very significant successes in…

We will make an assessment based on the facts and we will calibrate our response to the elections based on our assessment of how credible, how transparent, how inclusive, how free and fair we think it was.