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힐 수석대표: “북한핵 잡을 자신 있다”
북한의 이번 발언은 놀랄 일도 아니며 앞으로도 유사한 발언을 더 할 것이다.
북한은 북경공동성명서에 서명할 때, 먼저 핵을 폐기한 다음에 경수로 주제에 대해 논의할 수 있다는 사실을 알고 했다. 북한은 그들의 서명한 것이 무엇인지 확실하게 안다.
우리는 핵 문제를 반드시 해결할 것이다. 나는 자신 없는 일에 나서지 않는다.
북한에서 나오는 잡소리들에 일일이 귀를 기울이기엔 인생이 너무 짧다. 그들이 내는 소리는 도움이 되는 소리도 아니지만, 예상하지 못했던 말도 아니다.
북핵문제는 정상 궤도에 있다.
한국의 노무현 대통령은 부시대통령과의 전화통화에서 미국이 융통성을 발휘해 주어서 매우 고맙다고 말했다(이는 내용도 모르고 헛 다리 짚은 말임).
Negotiator: End of N. Korea's nuclear program still on track
By Barry Schweid, AP Diplomatic Writer
WASHINGTON — Dismissing North Korea's demand for civilian nuclear reactors as no surprise, chief U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill said Tuesday that country's agreement to end its nuclear weapons program remains on track.
"We are going to get this done," Hill told The Associated Press in an interview, underscoring that North Korea must agree to international restraints before its demand could be seriously considered.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan, meanwhile, said if North Korea needs some time to reflect on the agreement reached this week "we'll give it to them."
But, he told reporters traveling with President Bush to Mississippi to survey Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, that the agreement spelled out the steps that need to be taken. "Once they take those steps, then we would be prepared to talk further at that time," the White House official said.
Bush spoke by telephone to South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and they agreed verification of North Korea's pledge to abandon its weapons program was critical, McClellan said.
However, Roh's office in Seoul took note of the prospect of "various difficulties" in resolving the nuclear issue and said the South Korean president told Bush he appreciated U.S. "flexibility" during the negotiations in Beijing.
North Korea said Tuesday it would not dismantle its nuclear weapons program until the United States first provides an atomic energy reactor, a statement that cast doubt on its commitment to a breakthrough agreement reached at international arms talks on Monday. The North wants a light-water reactor, a type less easily diverted for weapons use.
"Life is too short to overreact to every statement coming out of Pyongyang," said Hill, who has returned to Washington following the talks. "It obviously was not a helpful statement. But it was not unexpected, either."
Still, Hill said North Korea's demand would be discussed at the next round of talks in early November. The focus will be on implementing the tentative agreement reached in Beijing, he said.
While the United States is prepared to discuss North Korea's insistence on being supplied with light-water reactors, Hill ruled out any such arrangement until North Korea rejoins an international treaty designed to limit the spread of technology and agrees to international supervision.
Under the tentative agreement, South Korea would provide North Korea with the energy it says it needs, Hill said.
"They know what they signed on to," Hill said. "We are not surprised by these sorts of statements. There probably will be more of them."
Asked if he was confident the breakthrough agreement would be concluded, Hill replied: "I wouldn't have supported it if I did not think it would get done."
And, he noted, the agreement is not with the United States alone, but with North Korea's neighbors. "That means something in Asia," he said.
China has taken the lead in the six-party talks, which have had an up-and-down history since they began more than two years ago. The other countries are South Korea, Japan and Russia.
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