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All of North Korea is a jail.
I'm well aware of the people's wishes.
Merit should count more than academic background.
To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.
No doubt it was better to have become president than not.
Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.
The endgame is peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula.
So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.
Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.
So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.
Only the truly magnanimous and strong are capable of forgiving and loving.
Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.
Fiscal crises often turn into financial crises, dealing a blow to the real economy.
In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.
Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated.
I do believe that both countries, China and Russia, that both of them are responsible countries.
I plan to lower corporate taxes to create an environment that encourages companies to invest more.
Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating.
American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.
The role of G-20 is to support the global economy to achieve strong, sustainable and balanced growth.
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea.
You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.
If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.
I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.
I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance.
I plan to eliminate the equity cap in investment, and I also plan large-scale deregulation to meet global standards.
I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.
For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner.
The North Koreans have gained, or bought, a lot of time through the six-party-talks framework to pursue their own agenda.
I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning.
From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment.
I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
First of all, I think all countries in the world have agreed it is not in anyone's interest to test-fire a missile, or whatever its is.
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.
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.
One of the most important reasons for North Korea continuing its nuclear ambitions is to consolidate the power to stay within the Kim Jong Il family.
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.
But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.
If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
With the lessons taken from the financial crisis in 1997, the Republic of Korea has been able to surmount the global economic crisis rather successfully.
The Nuclear Security Summit was President Obama's initiative born out of his vision to leave behind a safer, more prosperous world for the future generation.
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.
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 if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.
The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.
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.
I think it's safe to say that it's rather premature for anyone to make any initial assessment or analysis of Kim Jong-un, or have an accurate impression on Kim Jong-un.
The stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition.