THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _____________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 23, 1993 REMARKS BY PRESIDENT CLINTON AND PRESIDENT KIM OF SOUTH KOREA IN PHOTO OPPORTUNITY The Oval Office 11:08 A.M. EST THE VICE PRESIDENT: Be prepared for questions about everything except Korea here. (Laughter.) Q We'll ask about Korea this time. Are you both on board with the same package for North Korea to permit inspection -- international inspection of its nuclear sites? PRESIDENT CLINTON: Well, we'll have a statement about that later. We just started our meeting. So I think we have to have the meeting before we can make a statement. Q But it appears that President Kim seems to have a deviation in the policy. PRESIDENT CLINTON: We haven't had our meeting yet. Give us a chance to talk about it and then we'll be glad to comment about it. Q Are your options limited since China and Japan don't want you to proceed with sanctions? PRESIDENT CLINTON: I think I'd like to comment on all that in the -- we'll have a press statement and then I'll answer questions about it. But I really would like to speak with President Kim first. Q Do you know if North Korea has a nuclear weapon at this point? PRESIDENT CLINTON: I want to have this meeting first and then I'll -- Q What else can we ask you about? (Laughter.) Q Nothing ventured -- Q Are you going to ask the Attorney General to look into the Philadelphia state senate race? One of the -- Q Gingrich said you would. Q Are you going to do that, do you think? PRESIDENT CLINTON: The first I even knew about it was this morning. I don't know enough about it to give an answer. I'll have to look into it. I had not heard anything about it until this morning. I knew nothing about it until he mentioned it this morning. Q How come you didn't jog together today? PRESIDENT CLINTON: Tomorrow. I don't know if he'll run with me tomorrow, but I'd like him to. Q It depends on how late your dinner is. * * * * * PRESIDENT KIM: My impression is that most of the journalists would like to raise interest by describing the subject as a very difficult issue. In fact, sometimes they're very simple ones, in a way unnecessarily complicates -- I think that this time we had a very sizable amount of journalist delegation this time -- more than 100 people, I think, accompanied me on my visit in the U.S. this time. PRESIDENT CLINTON: They all got to go first to Seattle, and then here? PRESIDENT KIM: Yes. END11:12 A.M. EST