[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] more now on u. S. Northeast asia relations with a discussion on the strained relationship between japan and south korea and what it means for the u. S. Former officials from the National Security council, the cia and u. S. Embassy in seoul. This is just over one hour. Let me start by introducing the Senior Adviser and career asianand director of vie studies. Hes the former director for Asian Affairs on the nsc staff i look forward to your remarks. At albrightiser stonebridge group. Of wedent and ceo have been looking for an opportunity to have him speak for some time. We are very pleased to have him. Bruce will bat cleanup. He is a Research Fellow from he is well known on all these issues. On the koreaargely hand. He evokes reaction from both sides. That is how we know hes doing his job. He makes everybody angry. He joined heritage in 2007. The Deputy Division chief for kore
Try to think about how we can structure ourselves in a way that wourld be most e fisht going forward. And to try to project where were going to adequately respond. Thank you, chairman. I look forward to members of this committee to look forward to make sure that were set p properly to deal with this threat. Thank you, chairman. But before i asked the questions, just to thank you for your appearance today. And members to submit those questions and have those back before we go on the agenda. And i think youll be able to do that. I have a question dealing with whistle blowers. Earlier this month with all the hearings with regulations that are supposed to protect whistle blowers, do you think the system is working as it should to encourage and protect whistle blowing at the f. B. I. . And then why wouldnt it be all right to protect disclosure to direct supervisor . Thank you, senator. First, let me thank you for the honor of appearing before you here today. I know youve been at this for a
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Michael levi is the david m. Rubenstein senior fellow and director of the program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the council on Foreign Relations. He was previously nonresident science and Technology Fellow at the foreignpolicy studies at brookings and the director of the federatifederati on of american scientists are teaching security projects. He is the author of the power surge, Energy Opportunity in the battle for americas future. On Nuclear Terrorism and the future of arms control. He received a bachelor of science with honors from Queens University in kingston in mathematical physics and his ph. D. Is from the university of london. Treat please join me and walk coming our authors. [applause] our format this evening is going to be a little different than usual. Im going to start by asking a few questions and then we will turn it over to the audience. Michael, elizabeth its nice to have both of this evening. I would like to start by setting the stage for us. Why did you r