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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.

North Korea is like China was 30-plus years ago. Through our contact, we are certain they will become more open and more liberated.

While our nation's attention is rightly focused on the Middle East, the North Korean threat has grown exponentially, while there seems to be a falling asleep, so to speak, at the switch when it comes to North Korea.

The Berlin Wall fell because the East Germans saw the West had more. The Koreans don't like the Japanese and try to prove to them that they are worth more in the industrial arena.

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

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

There's the assumption being made by the national security advisers to the Obama administration that the North Korean leadership is not suicidal, that they know they will be obliterated if they attacked the United States. But I would point that everything in South Korea and Japan is well within range of what they might want to do.

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

One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.