Ash Carter: “The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action is not an arms control agreement. It is a strong non-proliferation deal that cuts…”

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

What he's trying to do is exactly what you're calling attention to, namely to end the humanitarian disaster occasioned by the civil war in Syria.

China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.

The international community, United Nations Security Council and especially the other six-party powers must hold North Korea accountable for this latest act and heighten the pressure on North Korea.