Ash Carter: “I am concerned that this has tremendous detrimental effects, encouraging Putin's aggression, and discouraging countries…”

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.

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.

Iran's ballistic missile activities pose a significant threat to the Joint Force and our regional allies and partners, particularly Israel.

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