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Morning Walk-Through - 02.11.07

Remarks by Christopher Hill
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Morning Walk-Through
St. Regis Hotel, Beijing
February 11, 2007


ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL:  I don't have any news.  No news.  I'm just out going to Diaoyutai.  I'll be out there -- I'll go to the Embassy and out then Diaoyutai.  No agreed schedule out there, but obviously we'll be trying to see if we can get through the main parts of this.

QUESTION:  Ambassador Hill, it's being reported the problem is the amount of oil that the North Koreans are requesting.  Last night, you talked about it being a precise measurement that is holding everything up.  Is that the problem?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL:  It sounds like you're trying to zero in on something, but I'm sorry.  I'm just not going to be the one to confirm it.  Look, let me get to work, and I hope we can finish the job.

QUESTION:  Are you hoping that today will be the day?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL:  I am, but I must confess, I was hoping yesterday.  I think it's time to wrap this up and get moving.  I hope the other participants will share that view that it's really time to get this statement wrapped up. 

We've made a lot of progress.  It's progress that's really consolidated.  We've got this one issue, and we ought to try to wrap this issue up.  I'm going to go out there today with a view that we should really, really try to get this thing done.

QUESTION:  Mr. Ambassador, how optimistic are you, how -- what is the possibility...?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL:  How optimistic?  I don't know.  I just do believe this issue ought to be resolved.  This is -- Frankly, there's an issue I thought would go into a working group, and here it is in the main discussion.  Let's see if we can get this resolved.  I think issues of this kind are more appropriate for working groups.

QUESTION:  I'm not asking about specifics, but are the North Koreans coming up with something that you have never heard of in Berlin?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL:  I think the issue is -- Frankly, issues of this kind are more appropriate for experts.  Issues of this kind -- and, again, I don't particularly want to be the one to confirm what you're hearing -- but issues of this kind ought to be handled in working groups.  But we are where we are, and we'll see if we can get through this.  But I really think we should -- Today's the fourth day.  It seems to me that that's a good day to try to get this done.

I don't want to celebrate Chinese New Year here in Beijing, appropriate as that may sound.

QUESTION:  Mr. Ambassador, as for the stumbling blocks, it seems like everybody is talking about energy aid now.  But I wonder whether the United States' so-called "hostile policy" is not an issue?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL:  I don't think our "hostile policy" -- quote, unquote -- is an issue.  First of all, we don't have a hostile policy.  We just have a hostile policy towards people who make weapons of mass destruction, and what we are trying to do is end that practice.  The issue is, basically, so far it is just one paragraph and the desire to get more specificity on this paragraph.  Perhaps an overall Six-Party meeting should be trying to do it, but perhaps this would be more appropriate for a working group.  So, let me get to work.

QUESTION:  Did the North Korean's raise that hostile policy to you?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL:  Sure, it comes up all the time, because it is underlying justification for all of their behavior for fifty years.  So of course they raise it, but that doesn't make it true nor does it even mean that they believe it. 

Okay?  So see you later.  It is Sunday morning.  I have to go to work.

QUESTION:  Do you have a bilateral meeting with the DPRK today?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL: When I talked to Mr. Kim last night, we agreed we would get together.

QUESTION:  Bilaterally?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL:  Bilaterally.  Yes.  Write that down.  Yes.  Breaking news.  [Laughter] Yes, we will probably meet bilaterally.

QUESTION:  Ambassador, you said that DPRK still sticks to the small issues.  Do you think, still...?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL:  I think this is an issue that is more appropriate for a working group frankly.  I think everyone is agreed on what we are going to do, and I think some of these things ought to go to a working group, frankly speaking.  And many things are going to go into a working group.  That's why we have so many working groups.

QUESTION:  Is there any lunch scheduled for today?

ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL:  No, I'll never do that again.  [Laughter]  No, I think we will stay out and enjoy the culinary experience of Diaoyutai.

See you later.  Thank you.

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