Bush called for patience treat Pyongyang.

The outgoing U.S. President George W. Bush urged the participants to the six negotiating process on North Korea's nuclear program to the firmness and patience, tells AFP. At last week's talks once again reached an impasse because of the reluctance of the DPRK to make concessions.
"The key task - to be firm and patient, so that the next president or his successor has been able to solve the problem through diplomacy," - Bush told reporters aboard his plane on Monday. On Sunday the U.S. leader with unexpected visit to Iraq and Afghanistan. According to Bush, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il deliberately subjected to a strength of the negotiating process, which involves the DPRK, China, Japan, Russia, the U.S. and the UN.
The American President, January 20, who will relinquish his post on Barack Obama, I am confident that the six-party talks - the best way to solve the North Korean nuclear issue. However, Bush stressed that the process should be provided with the necessary verification measures: if the first negotiators tried to comply with the demands of the DPRK and hoped for a counter-retaliatory steps, it is now necessary to seek concessions from Pyongyang, and only then provide him with assistance.
On Friday it became known that the U.S. and other negotiators suspended fuel shipments to North Korea until Pyongyang does not sign the treaty on its renunciation of nuclear weapons, which provides the necessary checks. Russia, however, decided to continue deliveries.