as a matter of fact, with a couple other senators, last week i led a codel of senators to a defense ministers conference in singapore. this is the biggest military conference of defense ministers, foreign ministers in the entire asia-pacific region. secretary mattis and his team, the secretary of the navy, the admiral in charge of the indo-pacific, they were all there. we met with them, strategized with them. secretary mattis gave a great speech on u.s. strategy in the asia-pacific, the indo-pacific as we're now calling it. but he was asked about this very topic. and he said this is not an issue that is on the table with kim jong un, nor should it be. it is not even a subject of negotiation. the issue of possibly removing u.s. military forces -- you see here in a picture u.s. marines and iraq marines training together, we're not even going to talk about the issue of removing our legally deployed forces on the peninsula in exchange for illegally developed nukes and intercontinental ballistic missiles. this is what secretary mattis said last week in front of all the defense ministers of asia. a