Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you very much to all of our witnesses for participating. I have a couple of specific questions.
I'll start with you, Dr. Berger. Thank you very much for appearing. I've seen some of your commentary on television in recent weeks and months and I found it fascinating. You focus on how the act of demonstration is very clearly part of the goal of the regime in North Korea. You also mentioned that we are past the point of looking at them under the old rubric of “developing”. They're now demonstrating.
Regardless of the presidential change in the United States, is it fair to say that the era of strategic patience is over?