Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
definitely recess sort
A recess is one of the sort of termination scenarios. It's definitely an idea which we don't want to do,
agreement cannot committed gotten pretend time weapons
This is first time they have committed to completely dismantle their weapons in an international agreement. They cannot just stall and pretend it does not exist. I think they have gotten the message.
ahead colleagues difficult easy join moving saying
This is not easy and not a lot of fun. But I think my colleagues will join me in saying we are making progress. We are moving ahead through some very difficult territory.
frankly fun
This is not easy, and frankly it's not a lot of fun ... but we are making progress.
early korean nuclear weapons
The U.S. removed all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula in the early 1990s.
committed diplomatic full states united work
The United States is very much committed to this diplomatic process. We want it to work and we want full participation in it and we want it to succeed.
delegation leave less prefer
Some delegations prefer to leave some things more ambiguous, my delegation would like to see things less ambiguous.
agreement answer energy losing money question standing
So the question is why are they standing aside, losing so much money from only the energy agreement ... they have to answer that question.
civilian future issue whether
So whether the issue of future civilian use is going to be that important an issue or not, I can't say at this point.
dragged gets impression line people ready themselves
One gets the impression there are some people back in Pyongyang who still have not dragged themselves over the line to be ready to give this up,
charge check looking message money okay opportunity opposed send
Once you give us the okay for payment, we check to see that you have enough money in your account; and if you don't, we'll send you a message as opposed to looking at it as an opportunity to charge you for insufficient funds,
achieve consensus last
During the last 13 days, we were able to achieve a lot of consensus on some issues, I thought we had made a lot of progress.
clear firm focus korea needs north
North Korea needs to focus on what's on the table. We have to be a little firm and make it clear they they've go to come into the talks.
country energy keeping peaceful trouble
This is a country that had trouble keeping peaceful energy