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Of Naval Operations John Richardson and comidant robert miller. Good morning. The committee is meeting today to receive testimony on the plans and programs in the department of the Navy Fiscal Year 2018. I want to thank each of the witnesses for their distinguished service and is civilians they lead who are serving around the world today. In recent months, our nations senior civilian defense and military leaders have testified to this committee about the severe threats we face around the world. They have reported shortfalls and readiness that our military advantage over our potential adversari...

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...

The forces and the presence of the pkk, none of these issues are easy and none of them are going to go away tomorrow. The kurds are fighting isis right now, they are kind of the pointy end of the spear, they are not perfect and they need more support in our view. I think eventually the International Community will come around to giving them that support. I would like to see it happen sooner rather than later. That does not mean theres not questions with the impact on the pkk, how turkey would address that, and nervousesness in iran and others. But the truth is, the most urgent challenge right ...

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Asia pacific area. So weve had those treaty obligations for a long time. A long, long time. Secretary cohen . If i can followup on secretary browns answer. I think we have to be concerned what china thinks. We are up to, and also be concerned about what the Asian Countries believe is necessary. As seen, china is number one trading partner replacing the United States, were number four. To say the u. S. Is trying to contain china would be to sea all of the members of asean are trying to contain china, which is not the case. They want to continue to do business with china. But they dont want to b...