Christopher Hill Korea Quotations

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.

Our position has been very clear on this. North Korea needs to get out of the nuclear business.

We're not expecting North Korea to become a Jeffersonian democracy, but we do expect them to sit down and talk to us about these issues, to talk to the international community.

What North Korea needs to do is get out of the nuclear business.

North Korea needs to focus on what's on the table. We have to be a little firm and make it clear they they've go to come into the talks.

I hope the Democratic People's Republic of Korea delegation has done some homework. We had more than four weeks to look at the text of the proposed agreement.

They have to come to realize that nuclear weapons for North Korea do nothing for North Korea's security, ... We need to get North Korea to understand that its security is not tied up with nuclear weapons. Its security is tied up in good relations with other countries.