Thomas M. Countryman: “This agreement advances the primary goal we have in every 123 agreement, which is strengthening the longstanding…”

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

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.

We would argue that any effort to step away from JCPOA would reopen a Pandora's box in that region that we do not think we could close again.

I do not believe that it is in the United States' interest to pursue an autarchic policy of avoiding scientific and technical cooperation in the civilian nuclear field.