Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
korea needs north nuclear
What North Korea needs to do is get out of the nuclear business.
abandon believe cannot nuclear pretends programs situation
We cannot have a situation where the DPRK pretends to abandon its nuclear programs and we pretend to believe them,
dollars energy less million proposals week
Twenty-four million dollars is less than one week of the energy proposals in the six-way talks.
days longer months thirteen time twelve
Twelve days is a long time but thirteen months is even a longer time.
ought span time
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,
although carried emphasis evolving position reluctant seem sort
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.
reach trying turns work
We are trying to work with it, ... We are trying to reach something with it. How this turns out we don't know yet.
bit
We're in a bit of a standoff at this point,
abandon agreed precisely react situation
We need to have a situation where we know precisely what they have agreed to do, what they have agreed to abandon so we can precisely react to that.
progress
we didn't make as much progress as we planned.
good
We had some good discussions with Chinese, also there were some good discussions with the DPRK delegation,
both chinese forward host tried
Both of us (US and Japan) had discussions with the Chinese host. Chinese host tried to put forward some ideas,
amount bigger ended goes means plutonium problem stop time
Every day that goes on, the amount of plutonium theoretically can increase, so that's our concern. That means that we have a bigger problem than when we ended on Sept. 19. And I think the time to stop reprocessing, the time to stop that reactor, is now.
At this point, I don't know where these will lead, ... We are still in business.