Christopher Hill
Christopher Hill
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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 hope the Democratic People's Republic of Korea delegation has done some homework. We had more than four weeks to look at the text of the proposed agreement.
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The Chinese have given us a text to react to, some ideas, so we're looking at those and having some internal discussions and talking with people in Washington,
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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.
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The DPRK needs to understand we need to move swiftly on denuclearization,
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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.
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I think it is a good deal for everybody, especially for the DPRK,
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I don't have any further six-party meetings planned, to my knowledge.
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has some demands and the question is whether anybody accepts those demands.