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United States Embassy Beijing, China EmbassyU.S. Citizen ServicesVisas to the U.S.U.S. Policy & IssuesUnderstanding the USAHot Topics Embassy Highlights Six Party Talks Remarks by Christopher R. Hill Asst. Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Departure U.S. Embassy, Beijing, China April 9, 2008 Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill Meets Media in U.S. Embassy Beijing on Wednesday April 9, 2008 ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL: Hi. How are you I’ve just come from briefing and talking about the Six-Party process with the chair of the Six-Party process, Vice Minister Wu Dawei. I’ve also had the occasion today to talk about the situation with my ROK counterpart, Minister Chun Young-woo. And this morning I met with my Japanese counterpart (inaudible) Saiki-san to discuss where we are. Yesterday in Singapore, I had a long series of discussions with my DPRK counterpart, Mr. Kim Kye Gwan. I would say these were good discussions that I think allowed us to make some progress as we try to get through this difficult -- what has turned out to be difficult -- second phase. I want to stress that we haven’t yet arranged for all the factors, all the elements that need to be put together. Obviously, this is a package. We are talking about a declaration that has several elements. One of the key ones, of course, would be the amount of plutonium that the DPRK declares. But we’ve been able to have very good discussions on some of the other key factors that have allowed us to go forward. Again, as is always the case in the Six-Party process, nothing is agreed unless everything is agreed. So we have to continue to work on what an overall package of elements there’ll be in order to conclude phase two and then get on to the very important phase three -- where we anticipate, or we look forward to, dealing with the question of the DPRK separated plutonium and seeing what kind of overall arrangements can be made to ha...