Heather A. Conley is the president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States and a former senior vice president for Europe at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Accompanied by Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera (L), US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel (3rd L) reviews an honour guard at the Japanese Ministry of Defense headquarters in Tokyo on April 6, 2014. The US plans to send two more missile defence warships to Japan to counter the threat posed by North Korea's "provocative" actions, Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel said on April 6. AFP PHOTO / POOL / ALEX WONG (Photo credit should read ALEX WONG/AFP/Getty Images)
