“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
“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
“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 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 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
“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
“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
“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
“We must do all we can to help improve the deplorable human rights situation of the North Korean people.” PeopleHumansHelpingSituationRightsHuman RightsKoreanNorth Korean Author:Evan Bayh
“It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.” PeopleNaturalPolicyBlameDisasterKoreanDeprivationKimNatural DisasterNorth Korean Author:John Bolton
“Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.” MediaAssumingReincarnationKoreanKimDepartedNorth KoreanKim Il Sung Book:Arguably Source: Arguably
“The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be.” ThinkingKindStatesWholeUsedGamesUnitedWorryUnited StatesUnionsMatureSovietSoviet UnionNorth KoreaMissilesKoreanNorth Korean Author:Lawrence Eagleburger
“Today, former President Bill Clinton met with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and convinced him to release two American journalists that have been jailed since March. Isn't that great? This is big, yeah. Or as Clinton calls it, another Asian happy ending.” Has BeensTwoBigsTodayPresidentMetsYeahBillsClintonConvincedReleaseFormerJournalistMarchDictatorAsianHappy EndingsNorth KoreaKoreanKimNorth KoreanPresident Bill Clinton Author:Conan O'Brien
“I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.” ChildrenRememberMotherOfficeMeetingsNorth KoreaKoreanBushismFunny BushOvalNorth Korean Author:George W. Bush
“I believe that it is only through empathy, that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child or an Iraqi prisoner, becomes real to me and not just passing news. And it is at times like this when I ask myself, am I prepared - like Huck Finn - to give up Sunday school heaven for the kind of hell that Huck chose?” GivingBelieveKindChildrenRealSchoolPainAsksI BelieveHeavenHellGiving UpNewsEmpathyPreparedPassingPassingsSundayPrisonerNorth KoreaKoreanDissidentsSunday SchoolNorth Korean Author:Azar Nafisi
“When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.” SchoolGrowing UpGrowingTaughtDevilKoreanNorth Korean Author:Park Chan-wook
“Seen from the United States or Europe, Irans nuclear program often causes most concern, but from the perspective of countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the North Korean program is equally worrying.” CountryStatesCausesUnitedWorryUnited StatesPerspectiveEuropeConcernProgramNuclearRegionsIranAsiaNorth KoreaKoreanPacificNorth Korean Author:Yukiya Amano
“Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on what North Koreans themselves are supposed to believe, paying special attention to the North Korean narratives and mass culture, including movies and television shows. (...) There are few books that can give the world a peek into the Hermit Kingdom. The Cleanest Race provides a reason to care about how those in North Korea see themselves and the West. It is possibly the best addition to that small library.” WorldGivingBelieveBookReasonShowsCareCultureRaceAttentionSpecialTelevisionApproachMassWestLibraryIncludingKingdomsNarrativeRegimesKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanOutside WorldTelevision ShowsBrianHermitsNorth KoreanMass Culture Author:Andrei Lankov
“So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.” IfsGovernmentSituationEconomicSeriousDifficultyIsolationKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Kim Dae-jung
“So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.” KnowsWantAbilityDifficultySouthHandleRegimesCollapseKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Kim Dae-jung
“Although North Korea's position differs (from Tokyo's), Japan's basic stance remains unchanged ? to seek sincere responses from the North Korean side to resolve the abduction and nuclear issues.” SidesIssuesPositionRemainsResponseNuclearJapanResolveSincereKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanStanceTokyoNorth KoreanAbduction Author:Junichiro Koizumi
“The kindness of strangers and the support of the international community are truly the rays of hope we North Korean people need.” PeopleNeedsInspirationMotivationCommunityKindnessSupportInternationalStrangerRaysNorth KoreaKoreanInternational CommunityNorth KoreanRay Of Hope Author:Lee Hyeon-seo
“North Korean defectors often find it hard to settle down. It is not easy for somebody who’s escaped a totalitarian country to live in the free world. Defectors have to rediscover who they are in a world that offers endless possibilities. Choosing where to live, what to do, even which clothes to put on in the morning is tough enough for those of us accustomed to making choices; it can be utterly paralyzing for people who’ve had decisions made for them by the state their entire lives.” PeopleWorldMadeCountryHardStatesEnoughChoicesEasyDecisionMorningPossibilityOffersClothesToughEndlessSettlingAccustomedNorth KoreaKoreanSettling DownMaking ChoicesFree WorldDecisions MadeNorth KoreanEndless PossibilitiesDefectors Author:Barbara Demick
“A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldn’t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?” IfsHeartMadeGivenSimpleFineWeaponsCleanSoldierEdgesRecallsNailsMechanicItemsKoreaBuddyNorth KoreaKoreanSinkingNorth Korean Book:Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea Source: Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea
“Japan continues to work closely with the United States on the issue of the North Korean nuclear crisis and has played an important and constructive role in the Six-Party talks.” ImportantStatesUnitedPartyRolesUnited StatesIssuesSixCrisisNuclearUsaJapanConstructiveNorth KoreaKoreanNorth Korean Author:Michael K. Simpson
“With Albright at the helm of the State Department, Osama bin Laden ran wild throughout the Middle East, the North Koreans began feverishly building nukes under her nose, and we staged a pre-emptive attack solely for purposes of regime change based on false information presented to the American people by Albright about a world leader who was not an imminent threat to the United States. Slobodan Milosevic wasn't even a latent, long-term, hypothetical threat.” PeopleWorldLongStatesPurposePoliticsTermUnitedLeaderUnited StatesMiddleInformationBuildingThreatEastNosesRanLong TermDepartmentRegimesMiddle EastNorth KoreaBin LadenKoreanOsama Bin LadenLatentWorld LeaderHypotheticalHelmNorth KoreanNukesRegime Change Author:Ann Coulter
“And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.” KnowsTwoLightWaterConditionsProduceWeaponsDollarsPlantNuclearBillionsNuclear WeaponsProvidingKoreaRequestNorth KoreaKoreanNuclear PowerNorth KoreanPower Plants Author:Kim Dae-jung