a good effort to try to bridge the remaining differences, which I believe are difficult but certainly not insurmountable. |
a kind invitation to consider it as a final version. |
A recess is one of the sort of termination scenarios. It's definitely an idea which we don't want to do, |
all of the participants understand what they signed up for. |
And only after that and at an appropriate time, we will consider having the discussion about the subject of the provision of a light-water reactor. |
any breakthroughs on the immediate horizon. |
as long as I feel it is useful to be here. |
At this point, I don't know where these will lead, ... We are still in business. |
Based on what the negotiators were telling us, it's a finite number of issues that separate us, ... It sounded a little worse right as the negotiations closed because they began to put things on the table which frankly had been resolved, and I'm not too concerned about those things. |
Both of us (US and Japan) had discussions with the Chinese host. Chinese host tried to put forward some ideas, |
But at this moment I don't know where those (discussions) would lead. |
But the question is what the DPRK has done in that one month, |
But the question is what the DPRK has done in that one month. |
But we are trying to work with it, and we are really trying to reach something with it. We are setting principles, but being in general principles doesn't mean you create ambiguities and lead the way to confusion and lead the way to problems in the future. |
but we have some ideas cooking; we're working on it. We're very concerned about the violence. It's quite widespread. |