China has hit back at the United States after Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Beijing is responsible for North Korea's latest nuclear test. On Monday, Chinese foreign ministry said the United States has a responsibility to provide effective solutions to the North Korean nuclear issue.

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Beijing also held Washington responsible for the current situation in the peninsula saying the conflict between North Korea and the United States is the core of the North Korean nuclear issue.

"The cause and crux of the Korean nuclear issue rest with the US rather than China. The core of the issue is the conflict between the DPRK and the US," the ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying said on Monday. "It is the US who should reflect upon how the situation has become what it is today, and search for an effective solution. The US should shoulder its due responsibilities."

 "China shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it," Carter said on Friday.

Last week, the Democratic People' Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted a test at the country's northern nuclear test site. It was North Korea's second nuclear test this year and fifth since 2006. China, the United States, South Korea, Japan, and United Nations Security Council (UNSC) denounced the communist state's latest nuclear test.

South Korean intelligence officials claimed on Monday that North Korea is ready for another nuclear test. 

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