Ash Carter: “I look forward to partnership with this committee in what can be a period of historic advance.”

The international community, United Nations Security Council and especially the other six-party powers must hold North Korea accountable for this latest act and heighten the pressure on North Korea.

China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.