[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1533]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    COUNTERING A NUCLEAR NORTH KOREA

  (Mr. COTTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COTTON. Mr. Speaker, North Korea's nuclear test earlier this week 
signals an increasingly dangerous and defiant stance that the United 
States and our allies must confront and defeat.
  The resolution before the House today condemns the North Korean 
Government's flagrant and repeated violations of multiple United 
Nations Security Council resolutions and condemns its repeated 
provocations that threaten international peace and stability. I urge my 
colleagues to support this resolution.
  I must add that the constraints we face in countering a nuclear North 
Korea highlight the urgent need to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear 
weapons capabilities. Iran already exports murder around the world, 
props up illegitimate regimes like Bashir al-Assad in Syria and 
supports and sponsors terrorist organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas. 
Imagine what Iran would do when acting under the umbrella of a nuclear 
deterrent.
  The United States already faces in North Korea one outlaw regime with 
nuclear weapons. We cannot allow a second outlaw regime to join them.

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