Selig Harrison Quotations

I think he'll be smoking out what the first steps of a denuclearization process could be,

The United States hopes that it can use the four-power talks to bring about a relaxation of the military tensions in the Korean peninsula.

They think China, the U.S. and South Korea are going to gang up on them.

It's a significant visit. The North Koreans trust Richardson, as someone who has shown them in the past, as part of a Democratic administration which was dealing with North Korea ... that he hears them and understands what they're trying to get across.

It's very valuable to the State Department to have what are called second track contacts with North Korea because they are more frank, and they're not burdened by the official process.

If the U.S. is willing to offer sufficiently attractive inducements ... I don't think that North Korea will hold up future progress in order to get a commitment for a reactor right away.