[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5078]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           NORTH KOREA SUMMIT

  (Ms. GABBARD asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. GABBARD. Mr. Speaker, just 6 months ago, my constituents and 
people all across Hawaii received a harrowing alert that came across 
their cell phones saying that a ballistic missile was incoming and to 
take cover immediately.
  It turned out to be a false alarm, but the terror that my family, 
friends, people all across the State of Hawaii experienced was very 
real, shining a light on the stark reality and the seriousness of the 
North Korean nuclear threat that hangs over them and this country.
  The agreement that came from the U.S.-North Korea summit that just 
concluded late last night, committing North Korea to complete 
denuclearization, is a first step, but there is far more work to be 
done. We have to be vigilant to make sure that the details of this deal 
ensure complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of North 
Korea.
  You hear talking heads on TV talking about who put up more points on 
the scoreboard, missing the seriousness and the actual point of what we 
are dealing with, that this is not a game. There are lives at stake.
  In the interest of peace and humanity, we should all be rallying 
around our country's success and continuing to pursue diplomacy and 
peace to remove this threat and denuclearize North Korea.

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