Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
session sit
We can't just sit there stalemated session after stalemated session.
credible eliminated nuclear parties promptly time weapons
The appropriate time will only come when the DPRK has promptly eliminated all nuclear weapons and all nuclear programs, and this has been verified to the satisfaction of all parties by credible international means.
clear discussion issue light nuclear particular peaceful subject water
What we have made clear is that we will have a discussion on the issue of peaceful nuclear energy, and in particular the subject of the provision of a light water reactor, but only at an appropriate time.
agreed best build enable forward move schemes solid
You know how you build up trust? You live up to the agreement. You come up with solid implementing schemes that enable you to move forward and show that what you've agreed to do in the agreement, you're actually doing and that's the best way to build up trust.
agreement build trust
You know how you build up trust? You live up to the agreement ... You can build up trust through actions.
parties process push together
get parties together to push the process forward.
abandon involved materials nuclear prepared production programs question whether
For us, the fundamental question is whether the DPRK (North Korea) is prepared to abandon its nuclear programs. And as you know its nuclear programs are involved with the production of materials for nuclear weapons,
concerned ideas quite
but we have some ideas cooking; we're working on it. We're very concerned about the violence. It's quite widespread.
confusion create general lead mean principles problems reach setting trying work
But we are trying to work with it, and we are really trying to reach something with it. We are setting principles, but being in general principles doesn't mean you create ambiguities and lead the way to confusion and lead the way to problems in the future.
question
But the question is what the DPRK has done in that one month,
moment
But at this moment I don't know where those (discussions) would lead.
based began closed concerned finite frankly issues number separate table telling worse
Based on what the negotiators were telling us, it's a finite number of issues that separate us, ... It sounded a little worse right as the negotiations closed because they began to put things on the table which frankly had been resolved, and I'm not too concerned about those things.
progress
If we're not going to make progress, we're not going to be here,
might possible talk wind
If we're not going to be here ... we'll have to talk about what possible way we might wind this up,