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.

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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.

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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.

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[Despite the differences, agreement on a joint statement at the resumed talks is] possible, ... would not be important in itself.

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

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

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When the United States rejected this offer, the advocates of nuclear weapons in New Delhi steadily gained ground, and in 1998 India formally demonstrated its ability to deploy nuclear weapons.

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