[China has been pushing the North Koreans] to be essentially team players, ... They really have had a substantive impact. |
[Don't break out the Dynasty wine yet. The negotiators didn't actually sign the agreement, because, so far, there is nothing to sign. The real negotiations, which the U.S. hopes will focus on dismantling the North's nuclear programs, are set to resume in November.] I can't imagine they'll be harder, ... I just cannot imagine it, but you know, sometimes we have to imagine the unimaginable. |
[North Korea can only expect security guarantees, diplomatic relations and humanitarian aids if it] promptly eliminated all nuclear weapons and all nuclear programs ... a sustained commitment to cooperation and to transparency. |
[North Korea,] not for the first time, has chosen to isolate itself, ... has a rather sad and long history of making the wrong decision on things. |
[That North Korea must completely, verifiably, and irreversibly dismantle its nuclear program before receiving any benefits. In a July 13 interview with South Korea’s SBS Television, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reiterated these conditions: North Korea, she said, must] make a strategic choice to abandon its nuclear weapons programs and its nuclear programs ... in the context of these [six-party] talks. |
a good effort to try to bridge the remaining differences, which I believe are difficult but certainly not insurmountable. |
a kind invitation to consider it as a final version. |
A recess is one of the sort of termination scenarios. It's definitely an idea which we don't want to do, |
all of the participants understand what they signed up for. |
And only after that and at an appropriate time, we will consider having the discussion about the subject of the provision of a light-water reactor. |
any breakthroughs on the immediate horizon. |
as long as I feel it is useful to be here. |
At this point, I don't know where these will lead, ... We are still in business. |
Based on what the negotiators were telling us, it's a finite number of issues that separate us, ... It sounded a little worse right as the negotiations closed because they began to put things on the table which frankly had been resolved, and I'm not too concerned about those things. |
Both of us (US and Japan) had discussions with the Chinese host. Chinese host tried to put forward some ideas, |