Everybody has got an interest in solving this problem through diplomatic means. ... There will be a point at which we look at the deadline, but we are not at that point yet, |
Everybody is the winner. This is a win-win situation. We got an agreement on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, |
Everybody is the winner. This is a win-win situation. We got an agreement on denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. |
First they have got to disarm, create a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, and once they are back in the NPT with IAEA safeguards, at an appropriate time we'll have a discussion about the subject of the provision of a light-water reactor, |
First they have got to disarm, create a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, and once they are back in the NPT with IAEA safeguards, at an appropriate time we'll have a discussion about the subject of the provision of a light-water reactor. |
First, they have got to disarm (and) create a nuclear-free Korean peninsula. |
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, |
get a sense of whether they went too far or didn't go far enough. |
get parties together to push the process forward. |
going to decide on their own. They're not going to listen to pressure from me. |
has some demands and the question is whether anybody accepts those demands. |
I am not interested in having a discussion with them about freezing this operation. |
I can't say at this point how it's going to end up, ... difficult but not insurmountable. |
I can't say really that there has been progress, |
I don't detect among any of the parties a willingness to construct a light water reactor which will be a very expensive, very long-term type of project, |