Ash Carter: “We need others to get in the game. Particularly, we need those in the region to play their part.”

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.

I can't support, and won't support, is anything that moves towards instability.

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.

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