; and (B) regularly flaunts such capabilities as to threaten and intimidate regional neighbors. (8) Continued efforts by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to expand and diversify its nuclear arsenal, long-range missile systems, and chemical and biological weapons programs and the clear willingness to leverage such systems and programs to threaten and intimidate regional neighbors poses a growing danger to stability in Northeast Asia. (9) The growth of the intercontinental ballistic missile forces of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea presents an acute danger to the people of the United States, considering such systems may soon be capable of overwhelming the mainland missile defenses of the United States. (10) The long history of aggression and support for global terrorism by the Islamic Republic of Iran, including through recent use of Hamas proxies to brutally attack Israeli and United States citizens, demonstrates that the Islamic Republic of Iran has no interest in the goals of international stability and peaceful coexistence. (11) The Islamic Republic of Iran is committed to a long-term goal of further developing increasingly destabilizing missile technologies and acquiring nuclear weapons to dominate the greater Middle East. (12) Taken together, such findings reflect a global security environment very different from any the United States has ever encountered. (13) While the United States served as a bulwark against the Soviet Union, enduring the distant existential threat the Government of the Soviet Union posed for decades, and defied the persistent daily threat of terrorism from the earliest days of the 21st century, the United States has never faced a more complex set of global threats than are arrayed before it as of the date of the enactment of this Act. (14) The United States, in order to maintain its position in the international order, or quite possibly its very survival, must recognize this new threat environment, and urgently take prompt, decisive action to transform its aging array