North Korea Quotes - Page 3

• To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

  Ai Weiwei

  Country, Korea, Competition

  "Ai Weiwei: The Dissident". Interview with Hannah Beech and Austin Ramzy, content.time.com. December 14, 2011.

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• I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

  Helen Clark

  Thinking, Korea, Issues

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• We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world.

  Zach Wamp

  Korea, World, Causes

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• The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

  Ari Fleischer

  Government, Korea, People

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• The hope of internet anarchists was that repressive governments would have only two options: accept the internet with its limitless possibilities of spreading information, or restrict internet access to the ruling elite and turn your back on the 21st century, as North Korea has done.

  Peter Singer

  Government, Korea, Internet Access

  "The unknown promise of internet freedom" by Peter Singer, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.

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• We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Leadership, Iran, Korea

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• I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Uganda, Korea, Eritrea

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• The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

  Susan Rice

  Korea, Risk, Add

  "Interview with U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 6, 2009.

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• With regard to North Korea, between myself and President Obama earlier, with regard to the so-called launch of satellite, the missile launch, we shared the view that it undermines the efforts of the various countries concerned to achieve the resolution through dialogue.

  Yoshihiko Noda

  Country, Views, Korea

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• 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.

  Lee Myung-bak

  Ambition, Korea, Important

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• North Korea has taught a great lesson to all the countries in the world, especially the rogue countries of dictatorships or whatever: if you don't want to be invaded by America, get some nuclear weapons.

  Michael Moore

  Country, America, Korea

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• Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

  Edward Luck

  Korea, Want, Proud

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• Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.

  Frank Gaffney

  Mean, Iran, Korea

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• A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning.

  Kim Jong Il

  Fear, Struggle, Mean

  Chŏng-il Kim, Jong Il Kim (1989). “The Present Times and the Tasks Facing Young People: Talk to the Senior Officials of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, October 12, 1988”

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• The civilized world must remain united and vigilant against the rogue state's development of a nuclear arsenal. We will never accept a nuclear North Korea.

  Nikki Haley

  World, Accepting, Civilized

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• North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the 'Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.' Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

  Donald Trump

  Powerful, Leader, Korean

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• Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.

  Andrei Lankov

  Exercise, Two, Korea

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• North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation.

  Richard Armitage

  Crazy, Korea, Insane

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• Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Business, Korea, Years

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• Of course, China is a key to the North Korea if we're going to solve that riddle, but they could also be helpful on Iraq, which is why it's important that we maintain a constructive dialogue with China.

  Frank Carlucci

  Keys, Korea, Iraq

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• Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

  Abdallah II

  Country, Thinking, Israel

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• I urge North Koreas leaders to reflect on Burmas experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.

  Thomas E. Donilon

  Doors, Korea, People

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• Our challenge is much more pervasive than it would be if we were just facing one enemy in one place. [Instead there is] the Middle East, Iraq, North Korea, Iran. There's a relatively long list that we believe are linked to the al Qaeda network in the Philippines, in Indonesia and in Yemen and other places. That makes it very clear that this is a global network.

  Hillary Clinton

  Believe, Iran, Korea

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• I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

  Richard Armitage

  Korea, Favors, Rewards

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• We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads, but we need to do a lot more work in order to be - to deploy a system that'll defend the United States against those kinds of limited strikes that might be possible by a nuclear armed North Korea or Iran.

  Dick Cheney

  Iran, Order, Korea

  "Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. May 28, 2009.

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