Wendy Sherman
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"Wendy Ruth Sherman" is Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the fourth-ranking official in the U.S. Department of State. She has formerly worked as a social worker, the director of EMILY's list, the director of Maryland's office of child welfare, and the founding president of the Fannie Mae/Fannie Mae Foundation. During the Clinton Administration, she served as Counselor of the United States Department of State and Special Advisor to the President and Secretary of State and North Korea Policy Coordinator. In the latter role, she was instrumental in negotiations related to North Korea and weapons of mass destruction/North Korea's nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programs.

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He was not some hysterical crazy person. He was very polite. He had things he wanted to say. He didn't work from any notes or talking points. He had tremendous confidence.

This was an excellent start.

A weakened President Bush has made both countries decide they have leverage.

The devil is in the detail.

President Clinton reviewed the range of concerns that the United States has in a very appropriate summary fashion for this kind of an introductory meeting and urged that we work hard over the next two days to continue to build on the progress that we have made in previous negotiations and meetings.

[Bush] understood that his legacy might be that North Korea became a significant nuclear weapons state on his watch, ... realized this was a national security and a political problem.

Positive, frank and warm discussions.

It has been an underpinning of U.S. policy and a premise of the Perry report that a South-North dialogue is central to peace and stability on the peninsula.