Kim Dae Jung Quotes

North Korea is not even close to being a near peer to South Korea or, much less, the United States.

If the purpose of the wall was to destroy Berlin, Herr Ulbricht and his cohorts have erred sadly. Berlin is not only going to continue to exist - it's going to grow and grow and grow. Its ties to West Germany will not be severed.

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

The 'Axis of Evil' was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

What we have is North Korea still pursuing path to a nuclear weapon state. So the majority of people's trust in North Korea has gone down considerably.

Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?

In Asia, the 2 Vietnams will be united under a Communist regime, as will North and South Korea.

America must never accept as a final fact the division between East and West …

North Korea has enough chemical weapons to kill everyone in South Korea.

We are running out of enemies. We are down to Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung.

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.

If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.

Berlin has a uniquely haunting nature, symbolic of a problematic system that was created to oppress and divide a nation.

To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.

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

To respond to North Korea by having our own nuclear weapons will not maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula and could lead to a nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia.

You have North Korea, you have nuclear weapons, and China could solve that problem. And they're not helping us at all.

If the US were to attack North Korea, they'd certainly destroy North Korea, but South Korea would be pretty well wiped out too.

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

Britain is relatively compact and much closer to the borders of the U.S.S.R. than anywhere in North America.

It was very interesting, and we went to Germany and we toured Germany like we were a German band in 1985.

Nineteen-seventy-nine had been a year of American setbacks around the globe. Before the year began, Cuban troops were already roaming Angola, and a pro-Communist regime ruled Ethiopia.

I don't think they knew very much about the war in Korea at all.

It's Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.

I have a whole box full of pieces of the Berlin Wall and a heart made from the barbed wire of the Iron Curtain. It's - they're cherished treasures to me now, of course.