We look forward to seeing the talks move on in this difficult stage.
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.
We decided the best thing to do is to put the talks into recess.
So I haven't seen any of the parties coming forward to say that they are prepared to fund such a thing, so we are talking about a theoretical issue at this period.
The sooner the better (when it comes to the resumption of six-way talks). We are very much committed to the six-party talk process (and) we want to get moving on it.
The North Koreans have not yet decided to return to the (six-party) talks. I'm not sure there's much more I can talk to them about.
If we can get an agreement at the end of August, quickly thereafter in September we will move to the next stage ...the so-called fifth round of the six-party talks we would anticipate starting at very early fall.
If I were optimistic or pessimistic it really wouldn't make much difference. The fact is, we have to talk to them and see where we are.
I'm not sure there is really much more I can talk to them about...I think they ought to come back to the six-party talks without any condition.
The problem is you talk to one side and get one view and you talk to the other side and you get a view 180 degrees to the opposite.
No one's building a light water reactor. These are rather expensive things, I mean we're talking talking billions of dollars. So that's not happening,
We are expecting people to come forward and the talks to begin on Saturday.
The Chinese have given us a text to react to, some ideas, so we're looking at those and having some internal discussions and talking with people in Washington,
If we're not going to be here ... we'll have to talk about what possible way we might wind this up,