William R. Richardson: “Well, it's awfully dangerous now because what this nuclear weapons test is going to produce is an arms race.”

Perhaps a vaguer statement that says tensions are less and the war is over, OK. Maybe. But not as a tradeoff unless there is substantial denuclearization.

But the sanctions that have, I think, bitten--that bite the most have been the coal, the uranium, the oil sanctions that are imposed now by the U.N.

I would not trade an end to the war treaty or unless there is a denuclearization of sizable numbers of dismantling of weapons and WMD and missiles.

His main objective is to stay in power, more so than detente with the United States.