Kim Kye-gwan Quotes

Disarmament requires trust.

Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

Peace and stability cannot be achieved by means of nuclear weapons.

We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'.

We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.

You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

Diplomacy was the only protection we had against war; and its achievements were of the utmost importance and value to the human race.

The way to disarm is to disarm....

True and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Disarmament has become the urgent imperative of our time. I do not say this because I equate the absence of arms to peace, or because I believe that bringing an end to the nuclear arms race automatically guarantees the peace, or because the elimination of nuclear warheads from the arsenals of the world will bring in its wake that change in attitude requisite to the peaceful settlement of disputes between nations. Disarmament is vital today, quite simply, because of the immense destructive capacity of which men dispose.

If we had less statesmanship, we would get along with fewer battleships.

We do not want war with Iran.

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

President Trump has always said that he does not want war, that he seeks peace with Iran, peace in the Middle East.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation.

A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.

Peace comes through dealing with people. Peace doesn't come at the end of a bayonet or the end of a gun.

Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.

We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

My policy is trust—peace, and to put aside the bayonet

Cooperation requires a certain degree of trust between states. The threshold of trust required for cooperation depends on a set of variables including a state's relative power and costs of conflict…. conflict between trustworthy states is possible, when we see conflict it is a sign that one or both of the states are likely to be untrustworthy.

How could we live without the sword?

Peace: A period of cheating between two periods of fighting.