Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ.
Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.
I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.
It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country.
All of North Korea is a jail.
And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.
We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.
Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.
We don't mind that we still have troops in Germany, or that we still have troops in Japan or Korea. But they are not in danger, and we know that they are in danger in Iraq.
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
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.
In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty.
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.
There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.
The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.
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?
Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust.
My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea.
So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.
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.
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.
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.
Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.
There is some sign that North Korea is changing recently. There is ongoing successful negotiation to have a military talk to Pyongyang, which has been stopped for seven years.
