Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
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Whether this agreement helps solve this will depend in large measure on what we do in the days and weeks that follow.
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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.
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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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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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Neither the United States nor any other participants in the six-party process is prepared to fund a light-water reactor,
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as long as I feel it is useful to be here.
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get parties together to push the process forward.
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There is nothing unsafe about U.S. beef. It is truly the safest in the world,
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Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.
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Patience has been exhausted and we need to see a pullback of the (Serbian) security forces, whose only purpose at this point that we can see is to be in opposition to the general public there.
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It's been very difficult. It's been a terrible strain.