That figure will soon change: After laying dormant since 1965, regional trade talks were revived again at the trilateral meeting, where--egged on by the State Department--Presidents Zardari and Karzai negotiated a memorandum of understanding and a timeline.
"This trilateral meeting reaffirmed the steps that North Korea should take in order for six-party talks to produce results, " Mrs Clinton said at a joint news conference after the Washington talks.