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.
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.
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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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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.
nuclear subject time
Once they are back in the NPT, with IAEA safeguards, at an appropriate time we will have discussions about the subject of the provision of a light-water nuclear reactor.
emphasize issue nuclear weapons
I want to emphasize that the issue of nuclear weapons in the DPRK must be solved,
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For us, the fundamental question is whether the DPRK (North Korea) is prepared to abandon its nuclear programs. And as you know its nuclear programs are involved with the production of materials for nuclear weapons,
ambiguous leave nuclear programs
Nuclear weapons, nuclear programs are not something that one should leave in an ambiguous state.
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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,
programs simply stopping view
Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.