Its at this point a definitive history of the secret organization and its so thick i want to start with this one because if you are a normal reader you might think that its easier to get information and get you say i want to quote you here because it is pretty succinct that i began the project that research and writing a book that the secret organization that controlled other secret organizations was going to be a challenge and so it proved several people who figure prominently in the events described in this book to requests to be interviewed. So how hard is it or how hard was it and how long did it take . Guest it took three years of research and writing. Thats not counting my two decades plus as a reporter on the Security Issues prior to that in the previous books and just by osmosis its also not counting the time spent in the editing process after the three years were up. It was very difficult but obviously not impossible to find the people and the other published words or unpublis
Assertive abroad. Thats just what we are doing. Thats something that we are addressing with this Regional Security strategy. Admiral harris, as i indicated in my opening remarks, theres concern about north korea. I recall when we met in singapore, you expressed significant concern. Can you just briefly give us your latest update about north korean activities . I might add, since china shared a border with north korea, are they at all being helpful or do they recognize the threat . Senator, i believe that as i have said before the north korea is the greatest threat that i face in the pacific as Pacific Commander. I think you have a leader in north korea who has Nuclear Weapons and is seeking to deliver them intercontinentally. That causes me great concern. He has 20 to 30,000 artillery pieces within a range of seoul amounting to several hundred thousand rockets that place 28,000 american troops plus their families in a 700,000 american citizens who live on the korean pa sin sue la in da
The case. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you both for testifying today. Admiral, in your testimony you point out that we insist that all Maritime Claims be deraved from naturally formed land features in accordance with International Laws reflected in the law of the Sea Convention. Are we at any kind of a disadvantage because we havent been a signatory to the law of the Sea Convention . Senator, i believe we are at a disadvantage because we dont have the moral high ground that other countries who are cigna tors, including china and russia have. So when china makes these outrageous claims in the South China Sea, and the philippines challenges one of those claims and we support the philippines right to make that claim, at the same time were not a signatory, that looks strange. When russia makes claims in the Arctic Circle and they tell us, you have no standing on which to complain because youre not a signatory to the law of the sea, it puts us at a disadvantage. Thank
She said she was excited to be part of something secretive and special. It has been nearly 2 weeks since nicole went missing. Investigators tracked the last messages from her phone to eisenhower. He said he left and went to a close friend storm. That close friend, natalie keepers seen here in video posted on youtube in 2014. Keepers father, and aerospace engineer, broke down in tears. Her family stunned. Noreen now to the friend raising new concerns about what people knew about the teenagers online encounters and when. Melissa has the story. Reporter carry cook so she knew nicole for about eight years and spoke highly of her kindness. Last year, we went on a School Field Trip and i forgot my money in my locker and she had money and bought me food and drink for she bought her food. Reporter both students at carrie said she saw the transformation when nicole started talking to boys. Facebook is pretty much where she talk to guys, but in school she really didnt talk to the guys. Reporter
American public somehow thinks that you can simply get rid of isil by bombs or dropping drones and could you just explain the difficulty of their asimulation, lets say, into population, and so forth, the terrain. One of the benefit ss is the recognition that dash is in fact not the disease its a symptom of Something Big erger. It includes the base societal factors that have given rise to the attractiveness of an organization like this and there are societal issues, political issues inclusiveness participation. Social issues, associated with Economic Opportunity. The ability ultimately to have the opportunity to put food on the table for families, and often the result of the absence of all of those or some of those in these countries and among these populations, have created the conditions of despair and desperation which has made those populations susceptible to radicalization and then recruitment. Excuse me, general. I assume there are efforts being done to try to respond to both cond