Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
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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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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.
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I hope the Democratic People's Republic of Korea delegation has done some homework. We had more than four weeks to look at the text of the proposed agreement.
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What North Korea needs to do is get out of the nuclear business.
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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 understand we have some North Korean visitors here today.
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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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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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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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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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In our view, the North Koreans have got to get out of this business and stop it,
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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.