Daniel R. Russel: “The short answer, Senator Markey, is yes. We are concerned lest there be an escalatory cycle on the Korean Peninsula.”

Please let me assure you that human rights is a central tenet of our approach to Vietnam.

if we succeed... in completing this agreement in the course of 2015, we will have... exported the values that Americans hold so dearly.

We deter North Korea through a strong defensive military posture rooted in our alliances with South Korea and Japan.

We have united the world so that North Korea is denied regular access to the international system.