I don't know how long the North Korean regime can last. But we can't just wait for them to collapse, because in the meantime, they can do lasting dam… - Ash Carter

That is what you wake up to every morning. It is what my wife and I think of when we go visit hospitals on the weekend. And so providing our people with all the support they can, you can possibly give them. And that does not always come naturally to this place, which is thinking in budgets and thinking in the future. You always have to remember that they are in danger.

There was never a conspiracy, never a tremendous fear. This is a society which is now in its third generation of severe political repression, so that children in North Korea have several hours of political education a day. Their parents did, and their grandparents did.

The military option will remain on the table. If there is a good agreement to have, obviously it's worth waiting for and completing the negotiations.