December 1, 2017 will forever mark a dark day for Hawai‘i, for our country, and the world. Today marks the first day of a new era, in which the lives and future of the people of our state have indelibly changed.
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They’ll be reminded every month, with nuclear warning siren tests, that at any moment we, our children, our families, and our precious aina will be vulnerable to a nuclear attack from North Korea, with mere minutes notice.
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I’ve been raising the issue of the increasing threat from North Korea ever since I came to Congress because the people of Hawai‘i have long known that North Korea's continued growing capabilities put us squarely within range of their intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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It is a travesty and a total failure of leadership by both Republican and Democrat administrations.
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Their short-sighted leadership over the last 40 years has left the people of Hawai‘i and this country, our homes and communities, and generations to come, under a dark cloud of a nuclear threat from this point forward.
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