Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld responds to a reporter's question during an informal press briefing while en route to Tokyo to meet with Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Nov. 14, 2003. Reuter's reporter Charles Aldinger (center) and New York Times reporter Thom Shanker are accompanying Rumsfeld as he travels to Guam, Japan and South Korea to meet with U.S. military forces and the local military and civilian leadership.