Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
agreement days depend helps large measure solve weeks whether
Whether this agreement helps solve this will depend in large measure on what we do in the days and weeks that follow.
forward identify looking principles work
We are looking forward to getting things going as scheduled, ... What we really have to do is ... identify the way forward and see how the principles will actually work in practice.
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Life is too short to overreact to every statement coming out of Pyongyang. It obviously was not a helpful statement. But it was not unexpected, either.
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We've used the one month very productively in Washington, we're ready to sit down and negotiate and try to finish this thing.
fair major rather
I think it's fair to say we have a rather major disagreement on this point.
changes engage fourth major minimum stick surgery
I think the most important is to stick to the fourth draft, try to make minimum changes and not to engage major surgery to the draft,
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One gets the impression there are some people back in Pyongyang who still have not dragged themselves over the line to be ready to give this up,
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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.
move needs swiftly understand
The DPRK needs to understand we need to move swiftly on denuclearization,
electricity interested obvious
It has been very obvious to us that they are not so much interested in electricity,
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It gives no one any pleasure that the DPRK is literally one of the darkest countries in the world,
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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 it is a good deal for everybody, especially for the DPRK, which does have a long road to travel,
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In a very real sense, (North Korea) really does stand at a crossroads and they can look forward to a brighter future, a more secure future, a more prosperous future, ... But they really can't do it with nuclear weapons. They've really got to get off that.