Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
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What North Korea needs to do is get out of the nuclear business.
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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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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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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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In our view, the North Koreans have got to get out of this business and stop it,
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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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I understand we have some North Korean visitors here today.
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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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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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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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We have sent it back to Washington and the United States government will look into it very carefully.
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There has been progress in this (so far) and we don't want to have that progress slip away. ... We've been rolling this rock up the hillside and we don't want it to roll all the way back down.
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We're not prepared to make a separate agreement for them to freeze programs. We don't want to get into a situation where they stop the programs - in short, freeze the programs, and then expect us to compensate them for a freeze.