Kim Dae Jung Quotes

Kim Dae Jung (18)

Birth:	3rd December, 1925
Death:	18th August, 2009
Nationality:	South Korean
Profession:	Politician, Writer

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

   

  Kim Dae Jung

• Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

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• Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

  Kim Dae Jung

• 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.

  Kim Dae Jung

• 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.

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• 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.

  Kim Dae Jung

• So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.

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• So in Asia I want to make – I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries.

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• 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.

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•  If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

   

  Kim Dae Jung

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

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

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• 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.

  Kim Dae Jung

• 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.

  Kim Dae Jung

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

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