またまたＢＤＡ資金の行方

　産経の｢北資金　露、送金受け入れ申し出｣のソースは聯合通信ではないんですが、どうもニュアンスが違うんだな。
ＡＰには韓国の千英宇に対するインタビューが引用されており、千英宇はこう言ってます。

Chun did not comment on the Yonhap report but warned that no one could guarantee a resolution of the impasse. South Korea, the U.S. and their regional partners are seeking ways to resolve the financial dispute in a way that "poses no legal problems and all parties can accept," Chun said.

先稿に書いた状況、つまり北朝鮮がどういう反応をするか不明というところはなんら変わっていないようで、気になるのはヒルの発言にも千の発言にもある「みんながなんとかしようと思っている」というフレーズで、ここに日本の陥穽があるんでしょうね。

　ま、そうならないためにもこの案も壊れりゃいいんですが、さて、これで風圧が強まる北朝鮮の出方が楽しみです。

－以下6月12日加筆－
　今朝になって国務省の定時会見が更新され、この件に関するやりとりが最近では目立って長く行われていますので該当部分だけ引用しますが、そういう事実はあるものの、それが全体の流れを変えるかということにはいたって慎重な言及です。

QUESTION: Can you tell us what the deal is with the BDA and the -- and this Treasury has come out and said that yeah, you are in fact working with the Russians on this. So can you give us a --
MR. MCCORMACK: Can't get ahead of my friends over at Treasury. I know that they've talked a little bit about it, but I can't really offer any more details at this point other than to say and to repeat what I have said before, that we'd all like to see this behind us so we can get back down to the real business of the six-party talks, denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. We have not yet received word from the North Korean Government to any of the six parties that they have received their money in a new bank account. So when and if that happens and they acknowledge it, then maybe -- perhaps be able to talk a little bit more about this and certainly in the sense that it is behind us at that point.

QUESTION: Right, but -- I mean, in terms of where you have been over the past couple months on this --
MR. MCCORMACK: Right.

QUESTION: -- in the stalemate, is there some -- any sense of hope that it could finally really now be on the brink of being solved?
MR. MCCORMACK: You know, this is one of those issues where until it is done, I'm not going to be laying down any bets. Certainly, we would like to see it done. I know that Treasury has talked a little bit about a possible mechanism to get this done. We'll see.

QUESTION: Someone had asked Tom if he had any sense of progress. Can you say whether you feel like you've made any progress on this?
MR. MCCORMACK: I think until it is done, that's -- that'll be the sign of progress we're looking for.

QUESTION: There was, I think, a Yonhap report which says that if you do resolve this, that the United States and North Korean officials would meet fairly soon thereafter, after a resolution. Is there anything to that?
MR. MCCORMACK: Nothing scheduled at this point. What we'd like to see is the six-party talks resume. We'd also like to see the North Korean Government fulfill its end of the bargain of the February 13th agreement. Any potential meetings, we'll have to take a look to see where we are in the six-party talks, where North Korea is in performing its end of the bargain, but nothing scheduled at this point.

QUESTION: You're not -- right -- sort of hostile to the idea, though, of those kinds of talks? I'm surprised that you didn't say, for example, "Look, when we hold such talks, we try to do them in the context of the six-party process" --
MR. MCCORMACK: You --

QUESTION: -- "Berlin notwithstanding."
MR. MCCORMACK: You anticipate what I was going to say.

QUESTION: Right.
MR. MCCORMACK: You know, any of these discussions, in the past, they have taken place within this context of the six-party talks. Well, we would argue that it is talking about the six-party framework, six-party issues. You may say it's a stretch; you know, we say it's within that framework.

QUESTION: (Inaudible).
MR. MCCORMACK: We can talk about that later. So we'll see. We'll see, Arshad. We have met with them in the past in that framework and we'll see if that happens again, but what's important is we start to actually get back to implementing the February 13th agreement.

QUESTION: One other thing. Why would you consider giving them a meeting absent their having met their end of the --
MR. MCCORMACK: All I'm saying -- I'm not saying they're -- that we are. I'm saying when -- if you rewind the videotape a little bit, I talked about, let's see where we are in terms of their performing on their end of the agreement and where we are in the six-party process before we start talking about those kind of meetings. Yeah.

QUESTION: Sean, are you (inaudible) the Russians are involved in this, any possibility?
MR. MCCORMACK: I'm not going to go -- I know Treasury has talked about it. I'm not going to go beyond the Department of Treasury on this one. Anything else on North Korea? Yeah.

QUESTION: Could you provide a bit of a preview on the talks that Chris Hill is having with his South Korean counterpart today and how much BDA is going to feature in these discussions?
MR. MCCORMACK: I think -- well, the framework is the six-party talks, so we'll talk about where we are and BDA figures into that at this point, talk a little bit of -- talk a little bit about, well, if this does work out, how might the process unfold, what would the next steps be. We're not there yet, but we want to be prudent and make sure that if it does happen that we are properly positioned as a group of five parties to resume the discussions and also to encourage the North Koreans to live up to their end of the bargain and see what else might be done in terms of sending messages to them -- driving home that point.

QUESTION: But are these discussions taking place because you think you're close to resolving the BDA issue?

MR. MCCORMACK: It closes when it's done. Yeah. Anything else on North Korea? All right.


参照記事
Report: Russia Aids U.S. on N. Korea
Daily Press Briefing
Sean McCormack, Spokesman
Washington, DC
June 11, 2007
U.S. Close to Deal to Release Frozen North Korean Funds
Data on N. Korea centrifuges sought By Bill Gertz