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South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table.

Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class.

There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea.

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.

There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently.

While many people overseas envy Korea's development, it is true that society has many problems such as economic polarization and a low birthrate.

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.

The United States must not allow North Korea to exacerbate tensions between our key strategic allies in Asia. As the leader of the free world, the United States needs to support our regional allies who are standing up to a Stalinist regime that is intent on developing nuclear weapons.

Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.