Kim Dae-jung Quotes

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• Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.
• Only the truly magnanimous and strong are capable of forgiving and loving.
• You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.
• Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.
• I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.
• Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.
• Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.
• If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.
• 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 in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then…
• 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…
• 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 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.
• 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…
• 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…

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