Christopher Hill

Christopher Hill
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I understand we have some North Korean visitors here today.
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I have made it very clear, and I think the other delegations have made it clear, although I'll let them speak for themselves, that nobody is prepared to fund the light water reactor, and they should rather focus on the elements that are on the table and understand that those elements would be very beneficial.
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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 think that the DPRK (North Korea) needs to understand that we need to move swiftly on denuclearization and the fact that denuclearization is the first step in the agreement.
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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 DPRK needs to understand we need to move swiftly on denuclearization,
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all of the participants understand what they signed up for.
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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.
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The six parties are currently in the process of evaluating where we are as right.
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The sense is we should be able to wrap this up in a matter of days, not weeks,
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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.