Ash Carter: “It hits everybody, and it hits them hard, and it hits them soon, which means that we don't have time to adjust.”

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.

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.

"Up-or-out" isn't broken--in fact, it's an essential and highly successful system--but it's also not perfect.

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