“And then you're going to have a president whose business empire depends on sort of delivering certain policies. For example, one thing that was quoted in the Newsweek report - that his [Donald Trump] pushing policies of nuclear arms for South Korea would actually improve his business network.” CertainPresidentOne ThingPolicyExampleArmsDependsTrumpSouthNuclearReportsEmpiresPushingKoreaDeliveringSouth KoreaNuclear Arms Author:Jill Stein
“The worst part of what we heard Donald [trump] say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other nations got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.” IfsHas BeensSaidStatesCareNationsUnitedUnited StatesHeardWorstPolicyTrumpRepublicanWeaponsDemocratSouthNuclearJapanNuclear WeaponsKoreaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisProliferationSouth Korea Author:Hillary Clinton
“I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them.” WantHonorSouthDefenseJapanMutualAlliesElsewhereKoreaTreatiesSouth Korea Author:Hillary Clinton
“Donald Trump's idea that more nations should get nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea.” ShouldIdeasNationsTrumpWeaponsSouthNuclearJapanNuclear WeaponsKoreaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisSouth Korea Author:Tim Kaine
“I think I sort of realized it was an international thing when we went to South Korea for The Fast [and the Furious] 6 premiere. We knew nothing about South Korea, and we came through the sliding doors [at the airport] with my luggage and there were like 60 fans with Luketeer banners: "We're your Korea Luketeers." It was like, wow, this is amazing.” ThinkingDoorsFansSouthInternationalWowAirportsKoreaFuriousBannerLuggagePremieresSouth KoreaSliding Doors Author:Luke Evans
“Just like we did in Japan, in South Korea. Just like is happening in Iraq. Laura [Bush] and I feel very strongly that if the United States were to leave.” IfsFeelsStatesUnitedUnited StatesHappeningsSouthIraqJapanVery StrongKoreaLauraSouth Korea Author:George W. Bush
“[Donald Trump] said that he would encourage Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals to lower U.S. costs, and then has denied that he would encourage nuclear proliferation to allies (although he did say so).” SaidTrumpCostSouthNuclearJapanAlliesDeniedKoreaArsenalProliferationSouth KoreaNuclear Proliferation Author:David Krieger
“On both of my major trips to North Korea, the leaders of the country made it plain that they want to make progress towards doing away with nuclear weapons and towards ending the longstanding, official state of war which persists between North Korea and the United States and South Korea, a war which has continued since the ceasefire over fifty years ago. That sort of thing happens quite often when we meet with people who are kind of international outcasts with whom the government of the United States won't meet.” PeopleWantYearsKindMadeWarCountryStatesGovernmentHappensUnitedLeaderUnited StatesProgressMajorsWeaponsYears AgoSouthInternationalNuclearThings HappenMade ItOfficialsFiftyNuclear WeaponsPersistKoreaNorth KoreaOutcastSouth KoreaCeasefire Author:Jimmy Carter
“I think the regime in North Korea is more fragile than people think. The country's economic system remains desperate, and one thing that could happen for example would be under a new government in South Korea, to get the South Korean government to live up to its own constitution, which says any Korean who makes it to South Korea, is a Korean citizen. A citizen of the Republic of Korea. And you could imagine the impact that would have inside North Korea if people thought, "If I could get out and make it to South Korea, I could have a different life."” PeopleIfsThinkingDifferentCountryGovernmentHappensWould BeImagineOne ThingEconomicExampleCitizensConstitutionRemainsImpactSouthDesperateIf I CouldRepublicFragileRegimesKoreaNorth KoreaKoreanEconomic SystemsDifferent LifeNew GovernmentSouth Korea Author:John Bolton
“Just as that little opening in the Iron Curtain that Hungary created caused a flood of people out, and ultimately the beginning of the end of communism in Europe, if you could get refugee flows coming out of North Korea, while there'd be a very difficult humanitarian problem in the short run, both for China and South Korea, in the long run it would lead to reunification.” PeopleIfsLittlesLongEndsProblemRunningDifficultEuropeFlowSouthChinaHumanitarianOpeningCommunismIronComing OutLong RunsFloodRefugeeCurtainsKoreaNorth KoreaHungarySouth KoreaIron CurtainReunification Author:John Bolton
“Germany, South Korea - these are all countries that are investing massively in education. We've got to do the same thing in America.” CountryAmericaSouthInvestingGermanyKoreaSouth Korea Author:Barack Obama
“South Korea at the end of the Second World War had a very low level of literacy. But suddenly, like in Japan, they determined they were going in that direction. In 20 years' time, they had transformed themselves. So when people go on saying that it's all because of perennial culture, which you cannot change, that's not the way the South Korean economy was viewed before the war ended. But again within 30 years, people went on saying there's an ancient culture in Korea that has been pro-education, which is true.” PeopleWorldWayYearsHas BeensWarEndsCultureLevelsEconomyGoes OnLowsSouthAncientDeterminedWar Of The WorldsJapanTransformedLiteracyKoreaKoreanSecond World WarLow LevelSouth Korea Author:Amartya Sen
“South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30 years, in a way trying to replicate what Japan had done earlier. They were learning to some extent from the Japanese experience too. So I think, in a sense, the East Asians were following a path, which all other countries including South Asia could follow but chose not too.” ThinkingWayTryingYearsLittlesCountryDoneCoursesPathUniversalSouthIncludingFollowingEastPrimariesJapanOther CountriesAsiaLiteracyKoreaReplicateSouth KoreaSouth AsiaPrimary Education Author:Amartya Sen
“China is the center of the Asian energy security grid, which includes the Central Asian states and Russia. India is also hovering around the edge, South Korea is involved, and Iran is an associate member of some kind. If the Middle East oil resources around the Gulf, which are the main ones in the world, if they link up to the Asian grid, the United States is really a second-rate power. A lot is at stake in not withdrawing from Iraq.” IfsWorldKindStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesMiddleSecurityInvolvedMembersResourcesIndiaSouthRateIraqEdgesChinaOilEastRussiaIranLinksStakesMiddle EastAssociatesAsianKoreaGridsSecond RateHoveringSouth KoreaWithdrawingEnergy Security Author:Noam Chomsky
“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
“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
“The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.” WorldCountryMovingFallBehindsResearchScientistSouthMoving ForwardCellsOther CountriesStemFinestKoreaKeep Moving ForwardSingaporeStem CellSouth KoreaStem Cell ResearchEmbryonic Stem Cell ResearchEmbryonic Stem Cells Author:Louise Slaughter
“To protest about bullfighting in Spain, the eating of dogs in South Korea, or the slaughter of baby seals in Canada, while continuing to eat eggs from hens who have spent their lives crammed into cages, or veal from calves who have been deprived of their mothers, their proper diet, and the freedom to lie down with their legs extended, is like denouncing apertheid in South Africa while asking your neighbors not to sell their houses to blacks.” Has BeensLyingMotherHouseDogBabyEatingAskingSellsSouthLegsNeighborDietsCanadaProtestEggsSouth AfricaContinuingCagesSpainDeprivedKoreaSlaughterSealsApartheidAnimal LiberationHensCalvesSouth KoreaBullfighting Author:Peter Singer
“I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked. "The landscape architect!" Ian shouted.” CountryDogSouthLandscapeArchitectKoreaSouth KoreaIan Kabra Author:Peter Lerangis
“The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.” MadeCountryScienceThreeLanguageWealthRacePovertyTechnologyGenerationsMastersIndustryComputerAspectMiserySouthEastFasterRevolutionaryBarriersIronSoftwareCoalAsiaKoreaNew TechnologySingaporeMobilityTaiwanSouth KoreaComputer SoftwareThree GenerationsEast AsiaOld TechnologyMicrochips Author:Freeman Dyson
“South Korea's investment in Russia has not been smooth, ... Korea had planned to carry out 126 investment projects worth 273 million, but in reality, only 91 projects worth 137 million are under way.” WayRealityMillionsProjectsInvestmentSouthRussiaSmoothKoreaSouth Korea Author:Vladimir Putin
“The international community has to overcome its differences and find solutions to the conflicts of today in South Sudan, Syria, Central African Republic and elsewhere. Non-traditional donors need to step up alongside traditional donors. As many people are forcibly displaced today as the entire populations of medium-to-large countries such as Colombia or Spain, South Africa or South Korea.” PeopleNeedsCountryTodayCommunityDifferencesStepsConflictSolutionsOvercomingSouthInternationalPopulationTraditionalMediumsRepublicElsewhereSouth AfricaSyriaSpainKoreaStep UpInternational CommunityColombiaDonorsSudanSouth Korea Author:Antonio Guterres
“You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.” KnowsSituationWestSouthEastGermanyAuntKoreaNorth KoreaSouth KoreaEast GermanyWest Germany Author:Kim Dae-jung
“If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.” IfsAmericaStruggleSouthChinaJapanKoreaSouth KoreaPower StruggleChina And Japan Author:Kim Dae-jung
“South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.” StillsCountryDifficultWorryEconomyTablesSouthKoreaSouth Korea Author:Park Geun-hye
“The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.” ImportantPlayRolesInfluenceAmbitionSouthChinaNuclearRussiaJapanKoreaNorth KoreaContainingSouth Korea Author:Zach Wamp