Bill Clinton: “No. The only thing that we said was that we would suspend our efforts to pursue sanctions if there was a verifiable…”

“No. The only thing that we said was that we would suspend our efforts to pursue sanctions if there was a verifiable freeze on the nuclear program while the talks continued, which included no refueling of the reactor and no reprocessing. When President Carter came back he said--this was the cautionary note, you know, I raised in Chicago last Friday when I was asked to comment on this statement--he said that he believed that Kim Il-song had made that statement to him. We said that we would wait for official confirmation. We received it today. That confirmation gives us the basis for resuming the talks. Yes, Rita [Rita Braver, CBS News].”