Ash Carter: “Sequestration, if it is allowed to happen, would have a devastating effect on defense.”

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

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

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.

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