Kim Dae Jung Quotes

So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.

If necessary, we will have to strengthen sanctions even further, but the goal of sanctions must be to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table.

We must engage with China to try and put as much pressure on North Korea as possible.

President Trump is right to welcome China's help in bringing North Korea's illicit nuclear program to heal, but he's also correct that if China doesn't go along, the U.S. can act alone.

A feasible North Korea strategy must consider how to reassure China that our objectives on the peninsula are not aggressive.

My goal is to resolve the North Korean nuclear problem and solidify peace during my term.

I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy.

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.

By linking these countries together in his 'axis of evil' speech, President Bush implied an identity between them not only in terms of their threat, but also in terms of the action necessary to deal with the threat. A lot of work will now need to be done to delink the three, and to show why military action against Iraq is so much more justified than against Iran and North Korea.

I don’t talk to countries that exhibit bad behavior.

Great powers engage.

The U.S and England are not worthy of security council membership. Those who want good relations with the Iranian people should bow and surrender to its right and might.

Isolationism has been a calamity.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

I should drag in the United States.

Foreign policy should be strategic, not tactical.

The Middle East does not follow Las Vegas rules. Whatever happens in the Middle East affects the rest of the world.

Political and security realities have reduced the scope of American unilateralism.

China, North Korea's last ally in the world has just voted agaisnt them [in the United Nations]. What would you do if you thought every country in the world was against you and you wanted to survive? You would buy insurance. And the best insurance you could get to prevent invasion would be nuclear weapons, and that is just what North Korea has done. So now, when the President [Trump] threatens them, what do they do? They go out and buymore insurance.

Frankly I'm a bit concerned when it comes to U.S.-China relations.

Whether you're dealing with your allies in Europe or you're dealing with a resurgent Russia, whether you're dealing with Iran or North Korea, you have to use the whole panoply of national tools of power to deal with the challenges the world faces.

I think what you can see is that we have worked very closely with China. China has really stood up in putting the pressure on North Korea.

After years of failure, I do think that President Trump has shown a lot of wisdom in reaching out his hand to the North Korean leader and to suggest to them that there might be a different future for the North Korean people.

No amount of sanctioning will persuade North Korea to give up nuclear weapons, nor will China step up and solve the problem for us.

We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.