Thomas M. Countryman: “The implementation of the Framework could not have been achieved absent the serious consideration of the use of force by…”

This would become an issue of extraordinary concern and division between ourselves and our P5+1 colleagues.

China says--and I think it is borne out by their actions--that they do not support North Korea as a nuclear weapons state and that they wish to see the entire Korean Peninsula denuclearized.

I would like to see this administration and this Congress make a long-term commitment to steadily expanded resources for the International Atomic Energy Agency because, yes, it is that central to U.S. security and to global security.

The policy without professionals is by definition an amateur policy. You have to help make the choices that bring this country forward.