The next stage is the implementation of this agreement. A key element will be a verification regime.
The North Koreans have not yet decided to return to the (six-party) talks. I'm not sure there's much more I can talk to them about.
The only thing North Korea is interested in discussing is a light-water reactor. No country is going to provide North Korea with a light-water reactor. So we have reached a bit of a standoff.
The problem is not we don't have talks, the problem is we need to have more action. The gap is between five of us and one of them.
The problem is not yet solved but we hope it can be solved eventually through this agreement. We have to take the momentum of this agreement and see that it is implemented.
The problem is you talk to one side and get one view and you talk to the other side and you get a view 180 degrees to the opposite.
The purpose of the meeting was to make sure, make absolutely sure, that we understood what their position is and what our position is, ... In that regard, I thought it was a very, very good meeting.
The purpose of these three weeks is to be in touch and be ready, because I would like this to be shorter than 13 days so we can get on to the main event, which is negotiations,
The sense is we should be able to wrap this up in a matter of days, not weeks,
The six parties are currently in the process of evaluating where we are as right.
The sooner the better (when it comes to the resumption of six-way talks). We are very much committed to the six-party talk process (and) we want to get moving on it.
The U.S. removed all nuclear weapons from the Korean Peninsula in the early 1990s.
The United States is very much committed to this diplomatic process. We want it to work and we want full participation in it and we want it to succeed.
There has been progress in this (so far) and we don't want to have that progress slip away. ... We've been rolling this rock up the hillside and we don't want it to roll all the way back down.
There is a strong sense among all six delegations that we really want to make progress,
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