“I think the fact that this was a essentially a person under [China] protection and the North Koreans went and assassinated [Kim Jong-nam], this made be the straw that really does it. And as you know, just a couple of weeks ago, the Chinese stopped all coal imports from North Korea.So there are signs that are getting serious. I guess from the policy perspective from the U.S., I mean, we got to decide what`s important to us with China?” ThinkingKnowsMeanPersonsDoeMadeImportantFactsWeekPolicySeriousPerspectiveCoupleChinaProtectionChineseCoalKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanWhat's ImportantStrawsImportsKimNorth Korean Author:Christopher R. Hill
“I think it's very important to follow the lead of the South Koreans and the Chinese and not back North Korea even further into a corner, because that's when they'll be dangerous.” ThinkingImportantDangerousSouthCornersChineseKoreaNorth KoreaKorean Author:Robert Scheer
“Cyber security will be an issue that I will be absolutely focused on as president. Because whether it's Russia, or China, Iran or North Korea more and more countries are using hacking to steal our information, to use it to their advantage. And we can't let that go on.” CountryUsePresidentIssuesSecurityInformationGoes OnAdvantageChinaFocusedRussiaStealingIranKoreaNorth KoreaHackingCyberCyber Security Author:Hillary Clinton
“To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. So when Bush came into the presidency, North Korea had enough uranium or plutonium for maybe one or two bombs, but then very limited missile capacity. During the Bush years it's exploded. The reason is, he immediately canceled the diplomacy and he's pretty much blocked it ever since.” YearsLittlesTwoStatesReasonEnoughBitsSidesUnitedUnited StatesProgressLittle BitCapacityClintonObligationAdministrationBombsPresidencyDiplomacyKoreaPursuedNorth KoreaMisleadMissilesHad EnoughBlockedUraniumPlutonium Author:Noam Chomsky
“If the United States is accommodating, the North Koreans become accommodating. If the United States is hostile, they become hostile.” IfsStatesUnitedUnited StatesHostileNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Iranian issue I don't think has much to do with nuclear weapons frankly. Nobody is saying Iran should have nuclear weapons nor should anybody else. But the point in the Middle East, as distinct from North Korea, is that this is center of the world's energy resources. Originally the British and secondarily the French had dominated it, but after the Second World War, it's been a U.S. preserve. That's been an axiom of U.S. foreign policy, that it must control Middle East energy resources.” ThinkingWorldShouldWarEnergyIssuesMiddlePolicyWeaponsResourcesShould HaveBritishEastNuclearPreservesWar Of The WorldsIranForeign PolicyMiddle EastWorld War INuclear WeaponsKoreaNorth KoreaSecond World WarIranianAxiomsCenter Of The World Author:Noam Chomsky
“It would seem to be the case that pressure on Iran to acquire nuclear weapons is almost totally driven by their need for a deterrent capability to avoid the fate of Iraq, Libya. The use of American military force in Syria thus sends exactly the opposite message as supposedly desired to the leadership in Tehran - and to others. North Korea has been dealt with diplomatically because it has the bomb and might use it if provoked.” IfsNeedsHas BeensUseSeemsMightForceCasesFateMilitaryMessagesWeaponsOppositesPressureIraqDrivenNuclearBombsAcquireIranCapabilityNuclear WeaponsSyriaKoreaNorth KoreaLibyaProvokedMilitary ForceDeterrentTehranAmerican MilitaryMight Use Author:Richard A. Falk
“I don't think America needs 28,000 men on Okinawa. I don't think we need an army in Germany. What's it for, to protect Germans against the Russians, to protect the French against the Germans? It's just there by inertia, that's my reading of it. I don't think we need an army in South Korea because North Korea is absolutely no threat to South Korea.” ThinkingMenNeedsAmericaReadingProtectArmyThreatSouthGermanyKoreaNorth KoreaInertiaSouth KoreaOkinawa Author:Kevin Gutzman
“I talk with countries, whether it's the Arab states or in the Middle East, and they talk about how they're glad to see us fighting against Iran. I talk with different countries in reference to Syria, and we talk about how we can get the Iranian influence out. We're talking about North Korea and what we need to do and the pressure we need to put on China. They're happy that we're finally beating up on Russia for what they've done in the Ukraine.” NeedsDifferentCountryStatesDoneFightingTalkingInfluenceMiddlePressureChinaEastGladRussiaIranMiddle EastSyriaKoreaNorth KoreaUkraineIranianDifferent Countries Author:Nikki Haley
“The only country that can stop North Korea is China.” CountryChinaKoreaNorth Korea Author:Nikki Haley
“The language of North Korea is always bombastic. But what has really changed is the acceleration of their nuclear program, the likelihood that they have more and more weapons, and the acceleration of the testing of ballistic missiles in very, very aggressive ways towards Japan.” WayLanguageChangedWeaponsProgramNuclearJapanAggressiveTestingKoreaNorth KoreaMissilesLikelihoodAccelerationBombastic Author:Michael Leiter
“If the US were to attack North Korea, they'd certainly destroy North Korea, but South Korea would be pretty well wiped out too.” IfsWellsWould BeSouthKoreaNorth KoreaSouth Korea Author:Noam Chomsky
“North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North Korean border. The US immediately rejected it. Modernization program is a very clear example of how security doesn't matter. There is no gain in security but massive overkill of the adversary's deterrent capacity. The only consequence of it is to elicit the likelihood of a preemptive attack. And a preemptive attack leads to a nuclear winter world.” WorldSecurityMilitaryConsequenceProgramWinterSensibleNuclear WeaponsRejectedNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Noam Chomsky
“If we educate ourselves, then the desire and need to have art as a part of our lives will happen organically. I would invite anyone to look at cultures where art is squashed. Do you want to live in North Korea? We have a president who doesn't read at all. There's a lot to worry about. I just wish, as a collective, we were much smarter.” ArtDesireCultureWishPresidentWorryArt IsEducateNorth Korea Author:Kimberly Peirce
“The madman theory can work, but it only works if it's strategic. And I think one of the problems that President Trump faces is people don't really know how much strategy is here and how much is he just sort of talking off the top of his head. And I think North Korea is a really classic case of a potentially insoluble problem, a problem that you have to manage.” PeopleThinkingProblemPresidentStrategyManageClassicNorth KoreaMadmen Author:E. J. Dionne
“I think, on the foreign policy side, that there is a need for disruption. We've had three administrations follow a pretty consistent policy toward North Korea, and it really hasn't gotten us anywhere.” ThinkingPolicyConsistentForeign PolicyNorth Korea Author:Robert M. Gates
“I think that - that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on North Korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to South Korea, I think these are all good things to have done.” ThinkingDoneMilitaryToughGood ThingsNorth KoreaDeployment Author:Robert M. Gates
“My last visit to China as secretary, January of 2011, I told President Hu Jintao, just like this, "President of the United States wanted me to tell you that we now consider North Korea a direct threat to the United States." And it had no effect whatsoever.” PresidentDirectThreatSecretaryNorth KoreaJanuary Author:Robert M. Gates
“It's clear the relationship between China and North Korea has hardly ever been worse. Kim Jong-un has never been to Beijing in his leadership. The Chinese press are saying some amazingly negative things about the north, and about Kim Jong-un. So - so they are weighing in, and they are bringing greater pressure. Whether it will be enough I think remains to be seen.” ThinkingEnoughNegativeChineseNorth Korea Author:Robert M. Gates
“If a North Korean ballistic missile can reach Alaska, it can reach Vladivostok.” North KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Condoleezza Rice
“North Korea is a direct threat to the United States. They have been very clear in their rhetoric we don't have to wait until they have an intercont- intercontinental ballistic missile with a nuclear weapon on it to say that now it's manifested completely.” WaitingDirectThreatNuclear WeaponsRhetoricNorth Korea Author:James Mattis
“The Chinese get over 40 percent of their oil from the Middle East through the Persian Gulf, but have you ever seen a Chinese aircraft carrier sitting inside the Persian Gulf? For at least 40 years, the United States of America has been guaranteeing Chinese energy supplies. Sitting here today, the US provides funds to, honest to God, 99 percent of the countries on the planet. We even give North Korea humanitarian aid. We give them food, and God knows what they do with it. They probably feed it to the crooks in the headquarters.” GivingCountryTodayEnergyHonestHumanitarianAidsChineseFundGod KnowsNorth KoreaPersian Author:Michael T. Flynn
“We are people who lived in absence of freedom. We know how precious it is. I want to give all these people their freedom, and the opportunity to live has humans. These are my friends, my family, and my fellow North Koreans.” PeopleGivingOpportunityMy FamilyAbsenceNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Kang Chol-hwan
“After listening to the radio, I learned what the North Korean government had been telling us about the war was not true. This myth allowed the North to hold the South responsible for the war.” WarListeningResponsibleMythNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Kang Chol-hwan
“All North Koreans know the risk of all their actions. Yeonmi Park grew up in North Korea and says watching outside videos changed her perspective of the world. She says, as a child, all she learned from watching state-run media was love for the Kim regime and North Korea.” WorldChildrenActionRiskChangedPerspectiveNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Kang Chol-hwan
“In North Korea the math book says, you know, there are four American bastards. You kill two of them. Then how many American bastards left to kill. a And as a child I had to say, "Two American bastards." And that was my education.” ChildrenBookMathNorth Korea Author:Park Yeon-mi
“I never heard my father was telling my mother that I love you. But in the movie man tells woman I love you. Right? And those things were never allowed for us to express to each other than the dear leader of the North Korean. So of course watching this information helped me to understand the outside world a little bit, that I realized there was some humanity out there.” MenWorldMotherHumanityFatherLeaderLove YouDearI RealizedNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Park Yeon-mi
“The Arab leadership, after so many years of Obama, they're positively giddy about the arrival of Donald Trump. And when they are giddy, like any other leaders, they might over step. And the danger, of course, is initiating a confrontation with Iran that the U.S. really doesn't want to be involved with at any given moment. They have enough to worry about on the North Korea file.” EnoughMomentsLeaderWorryDangerPositivelyNorth KoreaConfrontationGiddy Author:Jeffrey Goldberg
“I would like to see more of a democratic opening on the island of Cuba, things like, I don't know, free press, stop putting people in jail because they do not agree with you politically, stop helping countries like North Korea evade U.N. sanctions, don't invite the Russians to open a military base 90 miles from our shores, allow independent political parties to be able to function.” PeopleCountryHelpingPoliticalPartyMilitaryIndependentAgreeDemocraticPolitical PartiesNorth Korea Author:Marco Rubio
“President Xi Jinping clearly understands, and I think agrees, that the situation in North Korea has intensified and has reached a certain level of threat that action has to be taken. And, indeed, the Chinese, even themselves, have said that they do not believe the conditions are right to engage in discussions with the government in Pyongyang. And so what I think we're hopeful is that we can work together with the Chinese to change the conditions in the minds of the DPRK leadership.” ThinkingMindBelieveActionTogetherPresidentSituationTakenAgreeThreatChineseDiscussionHopefulWorking TogetherNorth Korea Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“I think there's a shared view and no disagreement as to how dangerous the situation in North Korea has become. I think even China is beginning to recognize that this presents a threat to China's interests as well.” ThinkingInterestSituationDangerousThreatNorth KoreaDisagreement Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“If there's any country that has the capacity not to control North Korea, but to influence North Korea, it's still China. The Chinese always say they have very little influence. They have more than they say they do. We should put pressure on them to do it and there's finally, we're seeing the first signs of a little bit of Chinese disaffection. At some point they're getting tired of the antics of this country. This is a dangerous ally for China to have. And the more Chinese can pressure them and put the economic screws on them, the better it will be for everybody.” CountryInfluenceEconomicDangerousTiredChineseNorth Korea Author:Richard N. Haass
“President Trump also mentioned that under the right conditions, he is willing to engage in dialogue with North Korea.” PresidentStressDialogueNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“During the periods when South Korea played a more active role, the inter-Korean relationship was more peaceful, and there was less tension between the United States and North Korea. The last U.S. administration pursued a policy of strategic patience and did not make any effort to improve its relationship with North Korea. Also, the previous Korean government did not make any such efforts. The result is the reality you see today - North Korea continuing to advance its nuclear and missile program.” RealityTodayEffortPolicyProgramPeacefulTensionNorth KoreaKorean Author:Moon Jae-in
“Trump has put the resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue at the top of his priority list, and he has employed a tactic of maximum pressure and engagement, but engagement can only occur if the conditions are right.” PrioritiesResolutionNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Moon Jae-in
“As long as North Korea continues its provocations, I believe that we will have no choice but to apply additional and strong pressure on it. At the same time, it is also important to send out a message to North Korea that if it decides to denuclearize and to come to the negotiating table, then we are willing to assist them.” BelieveLongImportantChoicesStrongI BelieveNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“For now we must continue to strengthen our sanctions and pressure on North Korea.” North Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“What Korea and the U.S. both ultimately seek to achieve is the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program.” AchieveProgramNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“It seems Kim Jong Un firmly believes that developing nuclear missile capabilities will provide security and guarantee his regime. We must make it clear that it is not nuclear and missile programs that will protect Kim Jong Un and his regime. The goal of the international sanctions and pressure is to make it unbearable for Kim Jong Un if he does not accept this fact. On the other hand, we are continuously trying to send a message that giving up its nuclear program and coming to the negotiating table is the right path for North Korea to protect itself and achieve its development.” GivingTryingBelieveGoalAcceptingPathAchieveSecurityProtectGiving UpProgramCapabilityNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“North Korea continues to advance its nuclear technology and will soon reach weaponization. Regarding its intercontinental ballistic missiles, it is continuously making progress. So currently, it is urgent for us to freeze North Korea's program so they will stop additional provocations and stop advancement of its technologies. I believe during my upcoming summit meeting in the U.S. I will be able to discuss a two-phased approach to the North Korean nuclear issue - the first being a freeze and the second being complete dismantlement.” BelieveI BelieveTechnologyProgressProgramMeetingsNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Moon Jae-in
“President Trump and I have a common goal - that is the complete dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program and the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. In the process of working toward that common goal, the friendship and trust between the two of us will be very important. I hope we will be able to show the world that the collaboration between our two countries is strong and will continue to grow stronger.” WorldImportantCountryStrongGoalPresidentCommonProgramStrongerCollaborationNorth KoreaKorean Author:Moon Jae-in
“It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.” ValuesHuman RightsNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“Kim Jong Un is an unreasonable leader and a very dangerous person. Yet he is the person who has effective control over North Korea, and he is the person who has the authority to denuclearize North Korea.” LeaderDangerousAuthorityNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“Although Kim Jong Un is a very unreasonable leader and has a firm, unreasonable belief that nuclear and missile weapons will protect him and his regime, we will continue to employ all possible means - sanctions, pressure, as well as dialogue - to draw North Korea to the negotiating table for denuclearization. To resolve the issue, we have to add dialogue to the current menu of sanctions and pressure.” MeanBeliefLeaderProtectDialogueFirmResolveNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“Every time North Korea commits an additional provocation, the U.N. Security Council passes another resolution. But when it comes to dialogue, currently there is nothing set. I hope to have frank and open discussions with President Trump on this issue.” PresidentSecurityCommitDialogueDiscussionResolutionFrankNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“When it comes to dialogue between South and North Korea and between the United States and North Korea, these can go on parallel tracks. South Korea and the United States can each play a role.” TrackDialogueNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“The message that we must send to North Korea is twofold: If the North Korean regime believes that it can defend and protect itself through nuclear and missile programs, that is a misjudgment. But if North Korea gives up its nuclear program, we will help it secure and develop itself. We must consistently send these two messages.” GivingBelieveHelpingProtectGiving UpProgramConsistentlyNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Moon Jae-in
“Humanitarian assistance and exchanges are still allowed, even under the sanctions regime on North Korea. Therefore, in parallel with sanctions and pressure, we must also employ humanitarian assistance. The meeting of separated families is also a measure to ensure human rights.” MeetingsHuman RightsHumanitarianNorth Korea Author:Moon Jae-in
“We're working better with China than we ever have. We are determined to take care of South Korea, which is why we have our mission there, working and that, as well. And then we're going to continue to take care of Japan. The entire international community isolate North Korea and let them know that this nuclear tests not acceptable.” CareCommunityTake CareDeterminedNorth Korea Author:Nikki Haley
“Having a missile test is not the way for North Korea to sit down with the president Donald Trump, because he's absolutely not going to do it. And I can tell you, Kim Jong-un can sit there and say all the conditions he wants, until he meets our conditions, we're not sitting down with him.” PresidentWant UNorth Korea Author:Nikki Haley