This is not a problem that we can turn away from, ... We must be prepared to face it. We must not let the sensible reluctance to fight drive us into wishful thinking.

We have received a variety of messages from North Korea in recent months and it seems to me that the general thrust is that they would welcome a visit by assistant secretary (James) Kelly,

U.S. assistance provides the Jordanian government needed flexibility to pursue policies that are of critical importance to U.S. national security and to foreign policy objectives in the Middle East.

Jordan has made clear its choice for peace and normalization with Israel,

very convinced we have a very solid plan to catch these people killing us and killing Iraqis.

Secretary Powell will certainly raise human rights, religious freedom and the whole panoply of issues we have with China,