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Improvement in 2013 in relations between china and south korea, i think really has taken a lot of broader risk out of the north korea crisis. The north korea crisis would clearly be a big challenge for south korea, but i think the fear always was that the Korean Peninsula could really be a focal point for a broader International Crisis. And i think thats really gone way, way down. Jack wilson. Hi, jack goldstone, George Mason University and brookings. Want to pick on something that david said. 2013 had a lot of crises, but nonetheless we saw quite a lot of resilience. Despite the fact that deb...

Well. The last day on which the United States and the European Union announced sanctions together at the end of april, the russian stock market gained 1. 5 . I would suggest that is not a positive signal for the effect of those sanctions. May 2nd, president obama and chancellor merkel said if russia interfered with the may 20 elections there would be substantial sanctions. There were activities by armed separatists supported by moscow. We have not seen any punishment for that. In the g7 when they met in normandy said there would be additional sanctions over the course of the next month if russ...

Sticking point for the russians. Spent thank you very much, ambassador. I think we want to quickly get to your questions and comments so get ready. Before we do that id like to give ambassador issued your an opportunity to respond to dr. Brzezinskis remarks. First, in the way, and i mean this half cynical, we can say thank you to Vladimir Putin for reminding us that at least a good reason for having nato. Nato was in the process of getting off the radar screen a little bit of the major european and transatlantic debate. Now its back on the radar screen. Thats good. Second, president putin has ...

Because of what happened. Whats been happening in syria as i mentioned. For folks who are less familiar. Whats happened is becoming more active in the socalled sunni triangle of Northern Iraq opposed to the government in baghdad. And they took a foothold. You may recall earlier this year and last year, back in fallujah again and then ramadi, which is in the western part of the country, which is a sunni predominantly sunni area of the country, and now most recently youve seen this rather spectacular attacks starting with mosul. Which was always a troublesome [ inaudible ] chas been charged with...

Looking at ways that the vsos can be help us understand how the veterans are perceiving our care and the timeliness of that care. I think theres a huge opportunity there. I agree. And you know, chairman miller, i think it might be good to have a hearing where we hear from the vsos about their suggestions about how to fix this problem. I yield back. Thank you so much. Thank you very much, miss kirk patrick. We do have one hearing that will be coming up in several weeks. It will be specifically geared towards the vsos. And its at that particular hearing we will invite the secretary to be here to...