Korean Quotes - Page 7

• Violence has always been implied by previous US presidents: That is to say, if North Korea launched an attack, or crossed certain red lines, they would be met by devastating force. And this has been said even by people in the Obama administration very recently. But the kind of rhetoric that Trump is using is different, and I think probably not helpful, because it just provokes the North Koreans to ratchet up their rhetoric as well. At this point, it seems that we urgently need calmer heads on both sides, and we're not getting that.

  Charles K. Armstrong

  Thinking, People, President

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the past, Koreans have mostly copied other countries' engines, and so there's been kind of a problem with quality and a real limit on what they could do with that.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Real, Past, Quality

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• One of my favorite episodes in West Wing was the homeless man that died and they found, in the overcoat he was wearing, a card of the speechwriter, Toby. He had given that coat to the Goodwill and this guy had ended up wearing it, died in it and Toby went to his funeral. He turned out to be a Korean war veteran. It was our first Christmas episode and that was a true story - a member of the staff had done exactly that. So many of these stories were far better than any fiction.

  Martin Sheen

  War, Men, Funeral

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Richard Nixon even before becoming president, before meeting Henry Kissinger, he said, "This is ridiculous. Communism is nationalist. The Chinese and Russian and Yugoslav and Cuban and - none of these communists get along, and the Koreans and the Vietnamese, and we can do business with them." And then he opened up to China, and that's when the Cold War started.

  Robert Scheer

  War, Chinese, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I think the fact that this was a essentially a person under [China] protection and the North Koreans went and assassinated [Kim Jong-nam], this made be the straw that really does it. And as you know, just a couple of weeks ago, the Chinese stopped all coal imports from North Korea.So there are signs that are getting serious. I guess from the policy perspective from the U.S., I mean, we got to decide what`s important to us with China?

  Christopher R. Hill

  Couple, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As for Kim Jong-un, first of all, he tried to kill his half brother in 2012, and according to South Koreans, the half brother, Kim Jong-nam actually wrote a letter to Kim Jong-un pleading with him not to do that anymore.

  Christopher R. Hill

  Brother, Firsts, Kim

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• My concerts consist of black, white, Korean - everybody. And the age group is so broad, from kids to great-grandparents. I have a lot of people with disabilities who come to my show as well. I personally move them to the front of the line because the lines for my autograph signings are so long. I make sure everybody has a good time at my show.

  Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.

  Moving, Kids, White

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• The fact is that one significant way the Iranians have a posture different from the North Koreans, the North Koreans basically are saying we have a nuclear program. We are seeking weapons. We have produced weapons. We're proud of the fact that we have weapons.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Different, Nuclear, Proud

  "Charlie Rose interviews Zbigniew Brzezinski, Henry Kissinger and Brent Scowcroft". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.nytimes.com. June 18, 2007.

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• The solution to North Korea is the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. China could influence the North; it supplies 80 to 90 percent of North Korea's energy. The United States have to put pressure on China in order for China to pressure North Korea.

  John Bolton

  Korea, Order, Pressure

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think the regime in North Korea is more fragile than people think. The country's economic system remains desperate, and one thing that could happen for example would be under a new government in South Korea, to get the South Korean government to live up to its own constitution, which says any Korean who makes it to South Korea, is a Korean citizen. A citizen of the Republic of Korea. And you could imagine the impact that would have inside North Korea if people thought, "If I could get out and make it to South Korea, I could have a different life."

  John Bolton

  Country, Thinking, Korea

  Source: humanevents.com

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• The North Koreans will sell anything to anybody for hard currency. If Al Queda came up with enough dollars to buy a nuclear weapon from North Korea I don't have any doubt that the North Koreans would sell it to them.

  John Bolton

  Korea, Doubt, Dollars

  Source: humanevents.com

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• THe Chinese like the satellite state [North Korea] between China and our forces, they fear that in a reunified Korea, American troops would be at the Yalu River and they've seen that movie before. They didn't like it the first time they saw it and they don't like it any better today. So they are quite happy with the divided Korean peninsula and that's a fundamental difference between the way they see things and the way we see things.

  John Bolton

  Rivers, Differences, Korea

  Source: humanevents.com

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• The only way to resolve the North Korean problem is to change the regime.

  John Bolton

  Way, Problem, Regimes

  Source: humanevents.com

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• I think it's very important to follow the lead of the South Koreans and the Chinese and not back North Korea even further into a corner, because that's when they'll be dangerous.

  Robert Scheer

  Thinking, Korea, Chinese

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Life is a horror for the Korean people. And I think isolating them further is going to make life more miserable.

  Robert Scheer

  Thinking, People, Life Is

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Scots, Outlook

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• If a North Korean ballistic missile can reach Alaska, it can reach Vladivostok.

  Condoleezza Rice

  North Korea, North Korean

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Where are the Black businesses? They're not here. The Koreans are here, the Chinese are here, the Arabs are here, the Indians are here. Everybody that wants to make a dollar is making a dollar on our lack of thought to do something for ourselves that was not present in that older generation that came from the South.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Black, Chinese

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• As a child I always loved traditional Korean masked dances. There is something magical about a mask because we all wear or hide behind a metaphoric mask, and ultimately underneath this metaphor is our true vulnerable core. I think we all want to reveal ourselves but can only do so when we feel we are safe.

  Dana Tai Soon Burgess

  Children, Thinking, Vulnerable

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• North Korea and China have proposed what sounds like a pretty sensible option that North Korea should end its development of nuclear weapons, the US should stop carrying out hostile military maneuvers on the North Korean border. The US immediately rejected it. Modernization program is a very clear example of how security doesn't matter. There is no gain in security but massive overkill of the adversary's deterrent capacity. The only consequence of it is to elicit the likelihood of a preemptive attack. And a preemptive attack leads to a nuclear winter world.

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Winter, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Crazy, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You know if you're in Rome, live in the Roman way. I grew up there, I was born there, and so I should follow its guidelines, live like a Korean. And I really love Korea. I grew up listening to Korean music, and was able to get to where I am because of it.

  G-Dragon

  Rome, Korea, Listening

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• We were living with Bernard [Leach] in his home. He had a fantastic collection of early English and Japanese and Chinese and Korean pots and German pots, contemporary English work as well. And we had access to this collection.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Home, Chinese, Pot

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If the United States is accommodating, the North Koreans become accommodating. If the United States is hostile, they become hostile.

  Noam Chomsky

  United States, North Korea, Hostile

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty of that too, but it couldn't take it after awhile. It's not the kind of job you can give to conscripts who are not trained to be murderers.

  Noam Chomsky

  Jobs, Army, People

  Source: chomsky.info

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