Christopher Hill Sit Quotations

We cannot have a situation where the DPRK pretends to abandon its nuclear programs and we pretend to believe them,

We can't just sit there stalemated session after stalemated session.

I understand we have some North Korean visitors here today.

Patience has been exhausted and we need to see a pullback of the (Serbian) security forces, whose only purpose at this point that we can see is to be in opposition to the general public there.

We know we are ready to sit down and negotiate and try to finish this thing. But the question is what (North Korea) has done during that one month,

We have a good idea of what their position is. Their position does seem to be wrong.

We certainly, I think, have a better idea of what their position is, although I must tell you that their position does seem to be evolving a little. So I am sort of reluctant to put too much emphasis in the discussions that have been carried on through the press.

I know we have had two discussions within the New York channel, and I can't say really there has been progress, ... We will have a better idea about what the DPRK position is.

We've used the one month very productively in Washington, we're ready to sit down and negotiate and try to finish this thing.

We're not prepared to make a separate agreement for them to freeze programs. We don't want to get into a situation where they stop the programs - in short, freeze the programs, and then expect us to compensate them for a freeze.

I must tell you their (DPRK) position does seem to be evolving a little, and we will have a much better idea about it tonight or tomorrow,

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.

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.

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

I think they know our position and I guess we know their position because I don't think anything has changed.

We need to have a situation where we know precisely what they have agreed to do, what they have agreed to abandon so we can precisely react to that.