Any agreement that you have isn’t going to be based on North Korea’s intentions or trust.

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.

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.

All the options are pretty unattractive right now except for continuing to talk.

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.

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.

And so there has been a lot of diplomatic movement.

And I think they realize that the other five countries are lined up against them, because all five are opposed to North Korea having nuclear weapons.

And it's not surprising that there should be disagreement - it'd be a little surprising if there was complete consensus on any foreign policy issue.

And it's time for Sinn Fein to be able to say that explicitly, without ambiguity, without ambivalence, that criminality will not be tolerated.