41 ordspråk av Mitchell Reiss
Mitchell Reiss
I'm not sure you can do anything quickly or easily with the North.
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It is fundamentally, existentially, in their own interest that they and their neighbors do not acquire nuclear weapons.
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It's time for the IRA to go out of business.
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No political party, and certainly no responsible political leadership, deserves to serve in a government unless it cooperates and supports fully and unconditionally the police, and calls on its supporters to do so.
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Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?
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Or perhaps they didn't share it at all, but they were happy that the United States wanted to go ahead and deal with North Korea, that was fine.
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So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process.
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So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue.
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Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.
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The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable.
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The negotiations are continuing now through the media.
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The negotiations didn't end when the six parties left Beijing.
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The nexus between terrorism and nuclear weapons, or even nuclear material, is obviously a current concern.
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The Nuclear Suppliers Group is one area the president highlighted in his speech that's extremely important and that needs to be improved.
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The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.
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