"We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility."

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"We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility."

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"There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently."

Future

"It's time for the IRA to go out of business."

Business

"So, in a sense, the verification piece is irrelevant to the format issue."

Sense

"You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done."

Cards

"We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility."

Diplomacy

"First of all we have to recognize that despite all the problems - and in some cases failures - that this regime has been much more successful, much more resilient, than people had anticipated."

Success

"The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable."

Diplomacy

"The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program."

Concern

"And it has to do with having no inventory or stockpiles on the shelf, but items arrive as you need to build your product. What that means is that it's much more difficult to actually find stockpiles of already built weapons."

Production

"So the president set out the policy guidance and said it had to take place in a multilateral fashion so that other countries in the region could be invested in the success of this process."

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