We cannot have a situation where the DPRK pretends to abandon its nuclear programs and we pretend to believe them,

[That North Korea must completely, verifiably, and irreversibly dismantle its nuclear program before receiving any benefits. In a July 13 interview with South Korea’s SBS Television, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reiterated these conditions: North Korea, she said, must] make a strategic choice to abandon its nuclear weapons programs and its nuclear programs ... in the context of these [six-party] talks.

They should be stopping their programs immediately,

We need to have a situation where we know precisely what they have agreed to do, what they have agreed to abandon so we can precisely react to that.

First they have got to disarm, create a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, and once they are back in the NPT with IAEA safeguards, at an appropriate time we'll have a discussion about the subject of the provision of a light-water reactor.

First they have got to disarm, create a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, and once they are back in the NPT with IAEA safeguards, at an appropriate time we'll have a discussion about the subject of the provision of a light-water reactor,