150: Pivot to North Korea Congressional Dish

Congress is back from vacation and instead of focusing their investigative power on Syria in the wake of President Trump’s first bombing of the Syrian government, Congress focused on North Korea. In this episode, get the background information you will need to understand the daily developments related to North Korea and hear highlights from two Senate Armed Services Committee hearings and a U.N. Security Council meeting during which our plans for North Korea were laid on the table. Please support Congressional Dish: to contribute using credit card, debit card, PayPal, or Bitcoin to support Congressional Dish for each episode via Patreon Mail Contributions to: 5753 Hwy 85 North #4576 Crestview, FL 32536 Thank you for supporting truly independent media! Recommended Congressional Dish Episodes Additional Reading Article: by Jonathan Kaiman, The Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2017. Article: by Choe Sang-Hun, The New York Times, April 30, 2017. Article: by Rebecca Kheel, The Hill, April 30, 2017. Article: by Foster Klug and Kim Tong-Hyung, San Francisco Chronicle, April 28, 2017. Article: by Petra Cahill, NBC News, April 24, 2017. Article: by Sydney J. Freedberg Jr, Breaking Defense, March 2, 2017. Report: by Congressional Research Service, October 20, 2016. Article: by Sam Doo, Business Insider, April 20, 2015. Article: by Mark Bowden, Vanity Fair, March 2015. Article: by Garance Franke-Ruta, The Atlantic, August 31, 2013. Article: by Martin Jacques, The New York Times, September 23, 2011. Videos YouTube: Vice: Vice: Vice: YouTube: YouTube: YouTube: YouTube: References Document: GovTrack: Lockheed Martin: Missile Defense Agency: OpenSecrets: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Sound Clip Sources Hearing: , United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, April 25, 2017. Watch on Witnesses Dr. Victor D. Cha: Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, Center For Strategic and International Studies Dr. Aaron L. Friedberg: Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University Ms. Kelly E. Magsamen: Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense Dr. Ashley J. Tellis: Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Timestamps & Transcripts 18:52 Senator John McCain: America’s interests in the Asia-Pacific region are deep and enduring. That’s why, for the past 70 years, we’ve worked with our allies and partners to uphold a rules-based order based on principles of free peoples and free markets, open seas, and open skies, the rule of law, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. These ideas have produced unprecedented peace and prosperity in the Asia-Pacific. But now challenges to this rules-based order are mounting as a threat, not just the nations of the Asia-Pacific region but the United States as well. The most immediate challenge is the situation on the Korean Peninsula. Kim Jong-un’s regime has thrown its full weight behind its quest for nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them, and, unfortunately, the regime is making real progress. A North Korean missile with a nuclear payload capable of striking an American city is no longer a distant hypothetical but an imminent danger, one that poses a real and rising risk of conflict. 31:20 Dr. Aaron Friedberg: The goal of Beijing’s strategy has become increasingly clear in the last few years is to create a regional Eurasian order that’s very different from the one we’d been trying to build since the end of the Cold War. 32:03 Dr. Aaron Friedberg: When the Cold War ended, the United States set out to expand the geographic scope of the Western liberal economic and institutional order by integrating the pieces of the former Soviet Union and the former Soviet empire and by accelerating the integration of China—the process that had begun a few years before. As regards China, the United States pursued a t