 美国仍有可能进行可信、可靠的谈判，使北朝鲜履行其根据 2005年 9 月《六方会谈联合声明》做出的承诺以及其根据联合国安全理事会的相关决议承担的义务。不过，我们已经表明，恢复会谈必须以北朝鲜明确承诺为全面、可核查和不可逆的无核化采取具体步骤为前提。我们继续与我们的伙伴以及整个国际社会合作，向北朝鲜表明我们不会接受北朝鲜作为一个核武器国家，并继续要求其履行自己的国际义务和承诺，包括放弃它所有的核武器以及现有的核计划，并使它早日重新接受《不扩散条约》和原子能机构的保障监督。
 The United States remains open to authentic and credible negotiations to bring North Korea into compliance with, its commitments under the September 2005 Joint Statement of the Six-Party Talks and its obligations under the relevant UN Security Council resolutions. We have made it clear however that any resumption of talks must be premised on North Korea’s demonstrated commitment to take concrete steps toward complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. We continue to work with our partners and the entire international community to make it clear to North Korea that we will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, and continue to hold it to its international obligations and commitments including to abandon all its nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs, and return, at an early date, to the NPT and IAEA safeguards.