There is no doubt that the negotiations will not be easy, ... There is a need for practical steps to implement the principles of the joint statement adopted at the previous round of the talks.

We firmly expect to achieve progress and advance beyond agreements reached at ... previous talks,

Everybody is going to the negotiations with a certain degree of optimism, hoping that in the long run it will be possible to settle all the remaining problems

We think that this new document is balanced in character, and it includes North Korea's right to peaceful atomic energy and the possibility in the long term of building a light-water nuclear reactor,

However, after a long pause in talks, which lasted more than a year, it would be too optimistic to expect any radical breakthroughs.

I never said this.