Korean Unification Quotes

His Majesty the Emperor of Korea makes complete and permanent cession to his Majesty the Emperor of Japan of all rights of sovereignty over the whole of Korea.

If South Korea is going to survive, and keep the peace on the peninsula, its citizens need to start conveying support for their state.

North Korea and South Korea speak the same language, and actually, we are the same country.

Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea.

It is evident to every unbiased mind that Korea must be and will be Russian..

Beijing cannot sit by and let her North Korean ally be bombed, nor can it allow U.S. and South Korean forces to defeat the North, bring down the regime, and unite the peninsula, with U.S. and South Korean soldiers sitting on the Yalu, as they did in 1950 before Mao ordered his Chinese army into Korea.

I want to see reunified Korean peninsula, and I believe that the majority of Koreans in both countries want to see Korea become whole again.

The North and South were one people sharing one language and one culture for about 5,000 years. Ultimately, we should reunite.

This is a divisive issue, but I really hope for unification. Even though we have been divided for a long time, we are all Koreans, so we should live together in a united Korea.

I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause.

I have repeatedly emphasized that the Communists in North Korea appear to have set 1975 as the year of aggression against the South.

In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.

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

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

We must embrace the North Korean people as part of the Korean nation, and to do that, whether we like it or not, we must recognize Kim Jong-un as their ruler and as our dialogue partner.

When we had a good relationship between North Korea and South Korea, we always connected with sports.

So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula.

Yongsan Garrison is an important venue representing Korea's modern history which will be preserved.

To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.

South Korea was able to build its national security thanks to the U.S., and the two nations will work together on the North Korean nuclear issue. However, I believe we need to be able to take the lead on matters in the Korean Peninsula as the country directly involved.

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

North Korea not only wants unification, it absolutely has to have unification. That's really the only way this state can feel secure.

Well, we ought to make clear to everybody that the next Korean War, if one were ever to happen, is going to be the last Korean War because it's going to end with a unified peninsula, and it's go to be under Seoul, not Pyongyang.

They are always open to come to South Korea and play, because we never reject North Korean athletes.