Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
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I understand we have some North Korean visitors here today.
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First they have got to disarm, create a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, and once they are back in the NPT with IAEA safeguards, at an appropriate time we'll have a discussion about the subject of the provision of a light-water reactor.
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First, they have got to disarm (and) create a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.
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I have just told the North Koreans ... (they) raised the idea (of) what can be done about putting the interim measure, a freeze measure. I told them I am not interested.
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What North Korea needs to do is get out of the nuclear business.
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The North Koreans have not yet decided to return to the (six-party) talks. I'm not sure there's much more I can talk to them about.
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Everybody is the winner. This is a win-win situation. We got an agreement on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
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It is very important to understand that all the North Korean nuclear energy programs, up to now, all of them have been related to weapons. Not a light bulb has been turned on as a result of the nuclear reactors in North Korea.
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We're not expecting North Korea to become a Jeffersonian democracy, but we do expect them to sit down and talk to us about these issues, to talk to the international community.
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The U.S. removed all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula in the early 1990s.
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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.
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Our position has been very clear on this. North Korea needs to get out of the nuclear business.
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The only thing North Korea is interested in discussing is a light-water reactor. No country is going to provide North Korea with a light-water reactor. So we have reached a bit of a standoff.
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They have to come to realize that nuclear weapons for North Korea do nothing for North Korea's security, ... We need to get North Korea to understand that its security is not tied up with nuclear weapons. Its security is tied up in good relations with other countries.