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.
China's stance on North Korea's nuclear capabilities.
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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.
It is not a giveaway. It rather is a mutual recognition that the U.S. and China have reciprocal obligations to each other that each must meet.
This would become an issue of extraordinary concern and division between ourselves and our P5+1 colleagues.