Lee Myung-bak Quotes

Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.

It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him.

There is no way to know for certain what accounts for North Korean decisionmaking, given how closed a country it is.

I've been reading a lot about North Korea ever since I got the part in 'The Interview' because it's just such a fascinating place. There are so many amazing stories of bravery coming out of there.

The stark and inescapable fact is that today we cannot defend our society by war since total war is total destruction, and if war is used as an instrument of policy, eventually we will have total war.

There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.

North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.

Wars are fought for political considerations. Military victory alone is never enough

Very near the heart of all foreign affairs is the relationship between policy and military power.

Cuba does not have nuclear rockets but it does have moral rockets.

It's a very popular sport [in America] to talk about power struggle[s] in the Kremlin.

Any great power—especially a great one suddenly deprived of its traditional adversary—faces the perennial dilemma of showing a reasonable return on its costly military investments.

Nobody seriously thinks Sarah Palin knows anything about nuclear weapons. I would not trust her with a microwave oven, much less a nuclear bomb.

Multinational unions are created in a search for more power. This leads either to irresponsible warfare as a result of meddling in foreign affairs, or to irresponsible alliances.

What will you tell them at your impeachment? That you had a weapon that would end the war immediately and you didn’t use it?

‘National Security’ is, in effect, a translation of the European concept of ‘raison d’etat’, providing cover for a government that felt free to break through all traditional limits on its power.

… a rich nation always defends itself badly.

Military campaigns are inseparable from politics.

Military action without political context is ineffective.

North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.

If U.S. air, naval, missile, and ground forces were not in and around Korea, and if we were not treaty-bound to fight alongside South Korea, there would be no reason for Kim to build rockets to threaten a distant superpower that could reduce his hermit kingdom to ashes.

If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.

I generally read everything about me. Based on my army experience, I think it's the right thing to do. Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and thought he was winning the war.

China is the one, the only one, that can control Kim Jong Un, this crazy, fat kid that's running North Korea.

By heralding President Xi Jinping's accession to permanent leadership, soliciting Vladimir Putin's reentry into the Group of Seven, and declaring that Kim Jong Un is 'beloved by his people,' Trump legitimizes the very behavior that U.S. presidents opposed for decades.