Excerpt from Secretary Rice's Meeting with Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura

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"As to the six party talks, yes we are beyond the deadline of December. I've always felt that the deadline was important. It's also more important though to get this right. And, given that we're going to move on to a more difficult phase, even than the disabling phase, which will have to have the accounting for the material that was made for weaponisation and dismantlement in a verifiable way. We need to establish confidence in this phase that there is the prospect for real denuclearisation in the next phase."