"There is common understanding with the DPRK on the need to implement the 2005 joint statement and to resume the six-party process,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"It remains to be seen when and how the DPRK will return to the six party talks,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

"The draft resolution is nothing more than a document of political conspiracy of hostile forces, to put the veil of a unanimous message of the international community on the U.S.-led human rights campaign against the DPRK in a bid to deny and obliterate the state and social system of the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.20

And today, with the U.S. promising to defend the South, war between the DPRK and ROK would mean war for America.

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And the United States has channels of communications directly with the DPRK and those are the channels we choose to employ.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Since the death of Kim Jong-Il, has the President changed his engagement with the DPRK, and is that the reason for this new step?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing