Quotes on North Korea Decommissioning its Nuclear Program

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"We've talked about making some progress on our bilateral agenda, we've talked about the beginning the process of removing them, removing the North Koreans from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. I think we'll continue that and we'll see when we can complete that because we'll see how far the North Koreans are prepared to move on denuclearization. And sure, this is a negotiation, it's going to require give and take."

"We're looking at some humanitarian assistance options. You know, this is, we have never had a quarrel with North Korean people, this is, we have wanted to help the North Korean people and will continue to look for options, look for ways where we can do that."

"We would want that statement to kind of lay out the vision for what we can do with this process, to put out there for the future once we get to further denuclearization the creation of a northeast Asian forum of some kind where it can deal with the problems of trying to make this a better neighborhood, of trying to solidify northeast Asia as a neighborhood."

"Well, I think we're, I think we have a lot of work to do but I think it's doable if North Korea wants to denuclearize, all of this stuff is very doable. If they don't want then we have another problem."