25 Quotes by Kim Dae Jung

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

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 a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

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.

So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

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.