Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
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I understand we have some North Korean visitors here today.
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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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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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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.
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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 got some things done, but it's not as much as I'd like and it's not going to get us there in the time span that we think we ought to get there,
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We certainly, I think, have a better idea of what their position is, although I must tell you that their position does seem to be evolving a little. So I am sort of reluctant to put too much emphasis in the discussions that have been carried on through the press.
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We are trying to work with it, ... We are trying to reach something with it. How this turns out we don't know yet.