“Russians are concerned by North Korea. I mean there's - this is getting kind of close to home for them. And so they're concerned. And I think certainly what we're going to start doing is rallying the troops again and say, ok, what do we need to do next?” ThinkingKindMeanHomeConcernedNorth Korea Author:Nikki Haley
“There's a lot of sanctions left that we can start to do, whether it's with oil, whether it's with energy, whether it's with their maritime ships, exports, we can do a lot of different things that we haven't done yet. What we have to do is send a strong, unified message to North Korea that this nuclear tests unacceptable. And I think the international community do that.” ThinkingDifferentDoneEnergyStrongCommunityNorth Korea Author:Nikki Haley
“Our world is becoming darker. The dangers are increasing from North Korea, whose recent provocation underscored the need to impose a higher price on this rogue regime, a problem that is not just the United States alone, but a problem for us all.” WorldProblemDangerNorth Korea Author:James Mattis
“There is reason to say that negotiations with the North Koreans are not easy, they may not succeed, but they may be a way of getting to where we want to get to, limiting the capability of the North Koreans to do harm to us and our allies without the use of military force and without the risk of a major war in Northeast Asia.” WarReasonEasyRiskMilitarySucceedCapabilityNegotiationNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Robert Gallucci
“I actually believe that we need missile defense, because of Iran and North Korea and the potential for them to obtain or to launch nuclear weapons, but I also believe that, when we are only spending a few hundred million dollars on nuclear proliferation, then we're making a mistake.” BelieveMistakeMaking MistakesNuclear WeaponsNorth Korea Author:Barack Obama
“Anyone has outside influences. They are the results of the cosmic roll of the dice: this person is born Aragon the Ranger, this person is born a prisoner in North Korea, this person is born Carlos the Dwarf. Some of these things are out of our control, but that doesn't mean that they can't be changed. A character, just like a person in real life, is a summation of her actions and feelings. Our actions and emotions are not performed against nothing, they do not arise from dust, we are in constant friction, and/or flow with our surroundings.” MeanRealCharacterFeelingsActionEmotionInfluenceChangedReal LifePrisonerCosmicNorth Korea Author:James Franco
“I don't think there's much chance that the North Koreans would attack Guam or any other territory out of the blue. They would only counterattack if they felt existentially threatened. The questions is, At want point will North Korea feel it is threatened enough to make such a strike? We don't know that yet.” ThinkingEnoughChanceNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Charles K. Armstrong
“Violence has always been implied by previous US presidents: That is to say, if North Korea launched an attack, or crossed certain red lines, they would be met by devastating force. And this has been said even by people in the Obama administration very recently. But the kind of rhetoric that Trump is using is different, and I think probably not helpful, because it just provokes the North Koreans to ratchet up their rhetoric as well. At this point, it seems that we urgently need calmer heads on both sides, and we're not getting that.” PeopleThinkingKindDifferentPresidentViolenceHelpfulRhetoricProvokingNorth KoreaKoreanUs PresidentNorth Korean Author:Charles K. Armstrong
“The concern we should have is not that North Korea would suddenly launch a preemptive strike on Guam or any other target, but that the conflict escalates to the point that there is a miscalculation on one side or another and missiles or bombs are dropped.” ConflictConcernNorth Korea Author:Charles K. Armstrong
“Obviously, the US does not want a shooting war with North Korea. But there has to be some path out of this situation that is also presented that is peaceful. We have sanctions, we have deterrence, but the third leg of any resolution to this problem has to be dialogue. It seems prudent for the US to not only threaten North Korea, but to also offer a way forward.” WarProblemSituationPathDialoguePeacefulResolutionNorth Korea Author:Charles K. Armstrong
“With what Trump is doing now, provoking North Korea, risking actual destruction of part of the US, he is violating the system's rules on its own terms. He's committing an actual threat against US national security. And you would think that in just pragmatic political terms in Washington, that is the kind of thing that could be grounds for impeachment. But as long as he sits in that chair, it's true, the commanders are obligated to obey his order.” ThinkingKindLongPoliticalTermSecurityDestructionThreatProvokingNational SecurityNorth KoreaPragmatic Author:Allan Nairn
“When I was doing those things with the Berlin circus, playing the accordion, going to North Korea - I felt all those things were just me experimenting and letting myself go. Everything before seems like a constant searching. Now that I think about it, I feel so lucky that happened; that I didn't find my voice straight away, that I didn't find my passion straight away, that it took so long.” ThinkingLongPassionLuckyMy PassionNorth KoreaSo Lucky Author:Mauro Remiddi
“There's no military solution to North Korea's nuclear threats, forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don't die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don't know what you're talking about, there's no military solution here, they got us.” PeopleForgetMilitarySolutionsThreatShow MeForget ItNorth Korea Author:Stephen K. Bannon
“We should learn to tolerate nuclear weapons of North Korea just like we did the Soviet Union.” SovietNuclear WeaponsTolerateSoviet UnionNorth Korea Author:Susan Rice
“China is ruthlessly pragmatic. It supports North Korea for its own selfish interests. And I believe that China no longer considers us an ally. The current president, Xi Jinping, cultivates close relations with South Korea. He has never met with me, the leader of North Korea, something that the leader of China has always done. At the grand celebrations in Beijing two years ago commemorating the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, he placed the president of Russia and the president of South Korea at his side. In North Korea, we pay a lot of attention to ceremonies and what they signal.” WorldBelieveWarDoneI BelievePresidentInterestAttentionLeaderSupportRelationSelfishWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiCelebrationWorld War ICeremonyNorth KoreaPragmaticIt Support Author:Fareed Zakaria
“I heard that senior officials in China and the United States were discussing whether to encourage a coup in North Korea to get a more pliable ruler. So I've taken steps to ensure that this can't happen. The man in our government closest to the Chinese, who could have arranged such a coup attempt, was my uncle. The man who would have been my natural replacement was my half brother. Both have been liquidated, as have more than 100 disloyal high-level officials.” MenNaturalTakenHe ManBrotherChineseRulersSeniorNorth KoreaDisloyal Author:Kim Jong-un
“North Korea will never give up its arsenal. It's all that is keeping us alive. Look at Saddam Hussein - and we never forget that North Korea was named as part of the "axis of evil" a year before the United States invaded Iraq. Do you think we would be stupid enough to believe American promises after all this? We are a nuclear power. That is not negotiable. We are willing to talk about limits freezes - but we would need to be given something in return security, in the form of diplomatic recognition by Washington and guarantees of nonaggression from China, Japan and the United States.” ThinkingGivingBelieveEnoughEvilForgetSecurityStupidPromiseGiving UpRecognitionNever ForgetNever Giving UpNorth KoreaDiplomaticNuclear Power Author:Kim Jong-un
“I believe we should have a full-court press diplomatic effort. If Trump doesn't want to listen to the experts inside his own government, then go to people outside in think tanks and academia who know about this very complicated region, and particularly North Korea.” PeopleThinkingBelieveI BelieveEffortComplicatedNorth KoreaDiplomatic Author:Hillary Clinton
“The North Korean regime is extremely fiery, extremely insecure, sometimes hysterical. And when you're around somebody who's screaming and unstable, the last thing you want to do is add to the instability with your own unstable, hysterical rhetoric.” SometimesRhetoricInsecureNorth KoreaKoreanInstabilityHystericalNorth Korean Author:David Brooks
“I'm worried just as much about Donald Trump as that crazy guy in North Korea - and he has a nuclear code. I'm worrying about that.” GuyWorryCrazyWorriedCodeNorth Korea Author:Spike Lee
“The president desires a peaceful resolution of the confrontation with North Korea and we'll continue to pursue that, but it all begins when the Kim regime announces their willingness to abandon their nuclear and ballistic missiles program and not before.” DesirePresidentProgramPeacefulAbandonResolutionWillingnessNorth KoreaConfrontation Author:Mike Pence
“The president has wanted to make it clear and he's made it clear that in the event that North Korea takes action that threatens the United States or our allies, that our response will be overwhelming and effective.” ActionPresidentResponseOverwhelmingNorth Korea Author:Mike Pence
“It's important to understand the policy of the U.S. towards North Korea is to deny North Korea possession of a nuclear weapon and the ability to deliver that weapon. Our strategy has been to undertake this peaceful pressure campaign we call it enabled by the four no's.The four no's being that we do not seek regime change, a regime collapse, an accelerated reunification of the peninsula, and we do not seek a reason to send our forces north of the demilitarized zone.” ImportantReasonAbilityPolicyStrategyPossessionPeacefulZoneNuclear WeaponsNorth Korea Author:Rex W. Tillerson
“I don't think independance of Catalonia would have any great positive or negative impact on the rest of the world. As an internationalist, I don't really care if they are separate from Spain or not, or whether they are even richer than they already are, as I care much more about what is happening in places such as Afghanistan, Venezuela or North Korea.” ThinkingWorldCareNegativeAfghanistanI CareNorth Korea Author:Andre Vltchek
“There is only one real 'risk' and danger regarding the nuclear escalation in North Korean: that the world is quickly accepting as inevitable the fact that the Western thuggish regimes can get away with anything. I see no other serious problem that the world today is facing. What is Kim Jong-un's strategy? To defend his people by all means, against the brutal force that has already murdered millions of people of Korea. It is all very simple, but only if one is willing to turn off the BBC and to use his or her own brain, it becomes 'obvious'.” PeopleWorldMeanRealProblemTodaySimpleBrainAcceptingDangerSeriousStrategyWesternInevitableGet AwayBrutalNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Andre Vltchek
“North Korea is no threat at all. I have already spoken about it during countless televised interviews. I visited North Korea and mingled with its people. There, nobody wants war. The North Korean people paid a terrible price for their independence. Its civilians were murdered mercilessly in tunnels by Western forces; its women were brutally raped, entire villages and towns leveled to the ground, or burned to ashes. All this is never discussed in the West, but is remembered in North Korea.” PeopleWarTerribleIndependenceThreatWesternNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Andre Vltchek
“North Korea's sin is that it refuses to surrender, to fall on its knees, to sacrifice its people. It refuses to become a slave. For centuries, European and later US colonialism punished such defiance in the most brutal ways. Western culture is, after all, based and built on slavery. It demands absolute compliance, unconditional submission. If North Korea is attacked, it should fight back! And it will.” PeopleFallCultureFightingSinSacrificeSlaverySlaveWesternSurrenderBrutalSubmissionUnconditionalNorth KoreaDefiance Author:Andre Vltchek
“We have to establish a joint strategy on other issues, such as Iran and North Korea, but also on climate change. That's why I think it is important to speak at length with the American president Donald Trump and show him a path forward for possible cooperation. I feel an obligation to do so.” ThinkingImportantSpeakPresidentPathStrategyClimate ChangeObligationCooperationNorth KoreaAmerican President Author:Emmanuel Macron
“When I visited North Korea in November 2014, is that Kim Jong-un is not merely the head of state of the DPRK - the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea - he's also their deity. So, when you insult him as the head of state, you're also insulting the deity, which of course the regime plays to a fare-thee-well to the domestic audience there.” AudienceDemocraticInsultNorth KoreaInsultingNovemberHead Of State Author:James R. Clapper
“If we - particularly, if we peremptorily attack North Korea - that without deliberation, that North Korea will reflexively unleash all the rocketry and artillery - which they're pretty good at, by the way - on Seoul, and do as they vowed many times, to convert Seoul into a sea of fire. So, if we do something like this, this will have cataclysmic results.” North KoreaArtillery Author:James R. Clapper
“We're talking about nuclear war with North Korea. We're talking about Russia. Does it feel like the world has shifted? Are we all just in Donald Trump's reality show now?” WorldWarRealityNorth KoreaNuclear WarReality Shows Author:James R. Clapper
“The basic problem with the Non-Proliferation Treaty is there's no teeth in it, no penalties for countries that don't comply. Worse, as you say, the very naïve structure of the NPT has actually made it helpful for countries who want to acquire nuclear weapons. Iraq, North Korea, Iran, all used the NPT to build up their nuclear programs.” CountryProblemProgramHelpfulNuclear WeaponsNorth Korea Author:Kenneth M. Pollack
“The steady progress made by North Korea on its nuclear and missile programs is deeply concerning. The US cannot solve this problem alone. However, in order to take steps that could fundamentally affect the North Korean leadership and its decision-making, we need to work even more closely with our allies in the region who feel this threat acutely. I would urge China, in particular, to intensify its leadership role in helping to solve this crisis.” HelpingProblemProgressProgramCrisisThreatSteadyNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Sam Nunn
“Regarding the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, we reaffirm that we are staunchly committed to realizing the denuclearization of the peninsula and upholding the international nuclear nonproliferation system. Both sides will continue to strictly enact all UN Security Council resolutions. And at the same time, we are committed to continuing to solve the North Korean nuclear issue through dialogue and talks.” RealizingSecurityCommittedDialogueResolutionNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Xi Jinping
“The whole Chinese system - not just the political leadership, the military too, the whole power structure, our education system, the whole of society - is suffering from being cut off from the free flow of information. That's why the country can't face up to open competition - unless it resorts to measures like North Korea.” CountryPoliticalSufferingCuttingMilitaryCompetitionChineseNorth KoreaEducation System Author:Ai Weiwei
“We know that Russia has done things that are very much against our interests. They've done things that require us to take punitive action against Russia. That does not mean we can't work with Russia where we have a common agenda. Russia is a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council; we need their help in isolating North Korea and their nuclear weapons violations. So, we still need to work with Russia. But Russia's done things that are contrary to our national security interest, and the US must respond to those types of activities.” MeanDoneHelpingActionInterestCommonSecurityNuclear WeaponsNational SecurityUnited NationsNorth Korea Author:Ben Cardin
“I believe on foreign policy that there is little difference between the Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We believe that the best course for containing North Korea's nuclear program is through diplomacy, and we disagree with the language the President Donald Trump has used, and the fact that he's made it more difficult for diplomacy to work.” BelieveLanguageI BelieveDifficultPresidentPolicyRepublicanProgramRelationDemocratDisagreeForeign PolicyDiplomacyNorth Korea Author:Ben Cardin
“If I had to do the most consistent nightmares I have, it's probably Russia, because they're so global in their efforts to bring down democratic systems. But, I'm also worried about what could end our civilization if we started a nuclear confrontation - North Korea is clearly in our sights as an immediate major concern.” EffortConcernDemocraticWorriedConsistentNightmareNorth KoreaConfrontation Author:Ben Cardin
“I can actually approve of some of Donald Trump's North Korea policy, the sanctions, for example, doing things that other presidents would have done. But it's impossible to imagine any other president going before the U.N. General Assembly and referring to the dictator of North Korea as "Rocket Man," or issuing this series of blustery threats, which, frankly, are terrifying, and are raising the risk of a needless war.” MenWarDonePresidentImagineImpossibleRiskPolicyThreatDictatorNorth Korea Author:Max Boot
“In North Korea, we never learned to think critically. There is no concept of individualism. The government treated us as less valuable than animals. You can't even stay overnight at someone's house without permission from the police. My mother warned me not to say - or even think - anything bad about our "dear leader," Kim Jong Il, because "even the birds and mice can hear you whisper."” ThinkingMotherHouseAnimalLeaderBirdPoliceDearValuableIndividualismMiceNorth Korea Author:Park Yeon-mi
“North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the 'Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.' Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!” PowerfulLeaderAll TimeNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Donald Trump
“The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea.” WorldAcceptingCivilizedNorth Korea Author:Nikki Haley
“We won't take any of the talks seriously if they don't do something to ban all nuclear weapons in North Korea. We consider this to be a very reckless regime. We don't think we need a Band-Aid, and we don't think we need to smile and take a picture. We think that we need to have the, stop nuclear weapons, and they need to stop it now. So, North Korea can talk with anyone they want, but the US. is not going to recognize it or acknowledge it, until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons that they have.” ThinkingAgreeAcknowledgeNuclear WeaponsRecklessNorth Korea Author:Nikki Haley
“Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.” WantStatesProudKoreaNorth KoreaPariahs Author:Edward Luck
“North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.” IfsWorldWantCountryAmericaTaughtLessonsWeaponsNuclearNuclear WeaponsDictatorshipKoreaNorth KoreaRogues Author:Michael Moore
“One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.” ImportantReasonAmbitionNuclearContinuingKoreaNorth KoreaKim Author:Lee Myung-bak
“With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.” CountryPresidentViewsEffortAchieveConcernedRegardVariousDialogueResolutionPresident ObamaKoreaNorth KoreaMissilesSatellites Author:Yoshihiko Noda
“The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.” RiskWeaponsAddNuclearNuclear WeaponsKoreaNorth KoreaProliferationNuclear Proliferation Author:Susan Rice
“The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.” TwoDoneGovernmentTurnsAcceptingCenturyInformationPossibilityInternetAccessElites21st CenturyRulingLimitlessKoreaNorth KoreaAnarchistTwo OptionsInternet AccessLimitless Possibilities Author:Peter Singer
“We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.” GivingLeadershipPositionSeriousSilentTreatedTreatmentIranKoreaAdversariesNorth KoreaJuvenileBargainingSilent Treatment Author:Theodore C. Sorensen