that the other vector by which north korea supposedly became a nuclear armed nation was through the a.q. khan network which we now know through a series of whistleblowers and courtroom document revelations and leaked documents that that a.q. khan network was infested from top to bottom with the cia and other assets of the american intelligence they're also concerned i think that they could potentially even lose what what group they've managed to maintain over jong il and his regime so they want to of course be able to make sure that they can secure the their nuclear weapons or whatever might be floating around in north korea in the event of some sort of truly madman type situation where kim jong un turns out to be even more maniacal than his father. a butcher international consultant and also believe that peace on the korean peninsula is not determined by of relations between north and south but the standoff between china and america. the important thing here to understand is that for example the thought of south korea being on military alert it's not south korea that is our military alone it

then the other vector by which north korea supposedly became a nuclear armed nation was through the a.q. khan network which we now know through a series of whistleblowers and courtroom document revelations and leaked documents that that a.q. khan network was infested from top to bottom with cia and other assets of the american intelligence so it's in a strange way america has been deeply involved with the nuclear arming of north korea and it it plays an very interesting counterpoint to be hysteria that we see going on over the possibility that iran among one day develop a nuclear weapon well here we have a nuclear armed state that's been a law being missiles over our head here in japan for years now and threatening the entire region and yet they've just walked away from those talks for the last two years so it plays a very strange role in the stage in relation to right now well just returning seeing it so admittedly what's happened. in official reaction from washington is that it is committed to stability on the korean peninsula. and to the freedom and security of its allies i says it is clos

it has been reported that the a.q. khan designs and plans have been copied. do you know if that black market network are currently supporting iran's program? and what tools do we have to deal with black market nuclear materials? the whole discussion here has been about our allies and working with our allies. ut we have some other very dangerous situations to deal with here. nd secretary sherman, if you want to start, please go ahead. want to be mindful of the setting in how i respond. let me just say this. we are focused very carefully on who is supplying material to iran and in particular to iran's nuclear program. we have obviously a range of sanctions in place against entities in iran as well as entities outside iran that have been supportive of their nuclear proliferation activities and we continue to track very closely the individuals and entities involved in supplying iran's nuclear program, the material for its program. i don't want to get into any greater specificity on that in this setting. we are happy to brief you in a different setting with additi