rok and japan.the way that reflects to other nations in the asia-pacific that kind of stuff to be expanded further and it serves the basic military underlie, but also the political one, which as i said before, we have to articulate to ourselves that we ought to be taking steps to defend against chinese of this brand and we have to talk to our allies and partners that they need to do that. that is the first to. >> if i could just take a moderator's privilege to die than for his second on your question. a useful way to characterize it and this touches on the point paul was making before his u.s.a. necessarily high level sign of russian cooperation on this global level and their vision of what the international order should look like, the role of the u.n., the role of the u.s. and its allies and that kind of. the real question in this gets to the point you are making a site they going be able to overcome what has been until recently approaches to a number of key regional security challenges in central

to be all of it more momentum towards addressing by the japan rok issues. will those be resolved? i don't know. there should be progress on them but i take with an overall dynamics and reaction that this issue will not defy japan-korea relations anymore, whether we important but based on relations, cooperation there will be momentum toward trilateral summit. but i hope from the perspective of japan's own edges, just interested in korea's interest that there's some progress on this issue going forward. thanks. spent under the audience is a good to get into questions but i want to exercise my prerogative and toss one or two out. i think generally we had a positive response with a lot of caveats and things that he could have done but i think generally a positive response from that which it reflects sort of the overall u.s. expert community. but are we grading them on a curve and should we in the sense given the expectation and even a week ago as you pointed out especially a year ago, and then predictions whether they were always wrong or only one recently, he will never say a politic

rok, both ofjapan those navies have leaderships but the ability to tie them together and talk to eachother and talk to us better, and have the capabilities to not only looked but defend themselves against these threats can be done more. in terms of the capabilities against this stuff, it is the strike. not merely the time when these that are looking at offensive missiles to strike, the rok has kilometer1:52 500 arrangement with the united states in what we sort of agreed to permit, agreed to allow. which means there is no limit any in terms of rok. ,hey had embraced a kill chain building up offensive missiles themselves. this goes back to not only contending with united states, that is another wrinkle, and often sent missile strike among those folks. >> maybe one more question. >> if you extrapolate the logic of what we're watching here, and what is in the back of my mind is a naval race like world war i, and walking through five years, 10 years, do you see the inevitability of a naval clash in the pacific? security, some kind of security framework, we reassurance measures and regimes

we support the rok very strongly in this effort. more generally, our approach to north korea is a combination of diplomacy and pressure. and as we go forward toward a possible north korean missile launch, for example, we're going to be engaging our six party partners and we're going to be considering what extra pressure we might put on north korea should they decide to conduct that missile launch. >> i assume you don't want to talk publically about what those pressures might be? >> we put a great many sanctions on north korea and further sanctions would be one possibility. >> did you want to add anything? >> sure. i will add that i think the key is to be ready for all outcomes regarding north korea from a position of strength. i tend to be a pessimism when it comes to dealing with the capabilities of other countries. so, again, it's best to be connco cognizant of all outcomes. we strengthen south korea's ability and their b mr d systems and that is why -- i personally believe that it's important. the missile defense system. >> thank

-rok and japan, and by the way, that also reflects to other nations in the asia-pacific, that kind of stuff ought to be expanded further. .. of their vision of what international orders should look like, the role of the u.s. and allies. that gets to the point that you are making. are they going to be able to overcome to fairly different approaches to a number of security challenges in central asia, southeast asia, indian ocean. until we have answers to those questions, we're not really going to be able to answer the bigger questions, which is exactly kind of temporary alliance of convenience based on the fact that both beijing and moscow are under prosecution of the united states or is leading to cooperation. those are the places you really want to look in the next several years to see where that question is going to go. can they overcomedies -- --overcome, well, does russia pull back, that would be a big issue to watch going forward. i have time for one more question. okay. get the microphone. >> i'm going to have to take the bait for cyber-related activity and ask the clear question

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we support the rok very strongly in this effort.re generally, our approach to north korea is a combination of diplomacy and pressure. and as we go forward toward a possible north korean missile launch, for example, we're going to be engaging our six-party partners and we're going to be considering what extra pressure we might put on north korea should they decide to conduct that missile launch. >> i assume you don't want to talk publicly about what those additional pressures might be. >> well, we put a great many sanctions on north korea and further sanctions would be one possibility. >> thank you. did you want to add anything, admiral harris? >> sure. i'll just add that i think the key is to be ready for all outcomes regarding north korea from a position of strength. so i tend to be a pessimist when it comes to dealing with the capabilities of other countries. and so, again, it's best to be cognizant of all outcomes. that's why things like missile defense are important and we. strengthen south korea's ability in their bmd systems a

we support the rok strongly in this effort. more generally, our approach to north korea is a combination of diplomacy and pressure. and as we go forward toward a possible north korean missile launch, for example, we're going to be engaging our six-party partners, and we're going to be considering what extra pressure we might put on north korea should they decide to conduct that missile launch. >> and i assume you don't want to talk publicly about what those additional pressures might be? >> well, we put a great many sanctions on north korea and further sanctions would be one possibility. >> thank you. did you want to add anything, admiral harris? >> sure, senator. i'll just add that i think the key is to be ready for all outcomes regarding north north a from a position of strength. so i tend tock a pessimist -- to be a possess list when it comes to dealing with the capabilities of other countries. so again, it's best to be cognizant of all outcomes. and that's why things like ballistic missile defense are important, and we stre