It is a big decision for them (North Korea), a big undertaking, but it's absolutely the right decision for them. The security, the success, the prosperity of the DPRK does not depend on nuclear weapons. In fact, it depends on relations with others. So this is a moment which I think will be a very important moment in their history, to make this turn, and to turn away from these sorts of weapons and toward interactions with their neighbors and with other countries in the world. |
It is a big decision for them but is absolutely the right decision for them. |
It is a good agreement for all of us. |
It is not a show-stopper, |
It is very clear in the agreement what they need to do, |
It is very clear that we have laid out the plan by which the DPRK must first abandon its weapons, abandon all its existing nuclear programs, get itself back into the (nuclear) Non-proliferation Treaty in good standing, |
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. |
It wasn't easy, but I think important things don't come easily, and I think it's a very important agreement. |
It's a good agreement for all of us. We have to see what comes in the days and weeks ahead. We have to seize the momentum of this. |
It's a good draft for all concerned, |
It's been very difficult. It's been a terrible strain. |
It's fairly routine, these contacts in the context of the six-party talks, |
It's hard to be optimistic or pessimistic at this point. It hasn't started, |
It's hard to say, ... There were moments when I really thought they were and there were moments when I really thought they weren't. |
It's not exactly a showstopper issue, |