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Press Gaggle 06/20/06 (Q Topic: North Korea)
— Wednesday, June 21, 2006 — Q Can you elaborate a little bit more of what kinds of consequences North Korea might face if they do test fire this missile? MR. SNOW: No. I'll restate what I've been saying the last few days, which is it's our hope that there is no missile firing. North Korea made a commitment back in 1999 at a summit with the Japanese that they wouldn't do it, and certainly there are many options and we are simply not going to tip our hand as to what the possible response should be. The other thing to keep in mind is it's not us and North Korea. Anything that happens is going to be part of sort of joint operations, if you will, or joint negotiations with the other five nations, or the other four nations that are involved with us in dealing with North Korea in the six-party talks. So we don't want to be drawn into any perception that somehow it's the United States responding solely and unilaterally to anything the North Koreans may do. Q But, obviously, you bring up the notion of consequences to try and give them, you know, a nudge away from taking this action. So how does that really have teeth if you don't talk about what that means? MR. SNOW: Doesn't mean they don't hear it, just means you don't. White House Press Corps | Press Briefing | Tony Snow | News Media | Bush Administration | North Korea
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