Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
coming forward fund issue parties prepared seen talking
So I haven't seen any of the parties coming forward to say that they are prepared to fund such a thing, so we are talking about a theoretical issue at this period.
fund neither nor prepared process states united
Neither the United States nor any other participants in the six-party process is prepared to fund a light-water reactor,
assume civilian issue peaceful problems
One should not assume that the outstanding problems all have to do with the issue of so-called peaceful use or civilian use.
approach assure believes course government
Of course not everyone agrees with this... but I can assure you that the US government believes this is the right approach and this is what we are doing.
agreed air hold issues none unless
None of these issues is agreed unless all of them are agreed. We have a lot of issues in the air that we need to hold together.
billions building expensive light mean rather talking water
No one's building a light water reactor. These are rather expensive things, I mean we're talking talking billions of dollars. So that's not happening,
korean north understand visitors
I understand we have some North Korean visitors here today.
currently parties process six
The six parties are currently in the process of evaluating where we are as right.
matter wrap
The sense is we should be able to wrap this up in a matter of days, not weeks,
committed moving process sooner talk
The sooner the better (when it comes to the resumption of six-way talks). We are very much committed to the six-party talk process (and) we want to get moving on it.
agree designed maybe narrow point
really designed to narrow the differences and maybe, maybe even get to the point where we can really agree on something.
issues raise ready touch
we should be in touch if there are issues he would like to raise and that I would be ready to be in touch.
bit plays
We are at a bit of a stand-off at this point. We have to see how this plays out.
clear firm focus korea needs north
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.