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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.
North Korea is like China was 30-plus years ago. Through our contact, we are certain they will become more open and more liberated.
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.
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.
North Korea's whole idea is to create a crisis to solve a crisis. They're so poor and they're so desperate that they realize that this bombastic rhetoric can drive the South Korean stock market down and get the U.S. in a tizzy. And it's a game they've been playing for many, many years.
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.
We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility.
If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.
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.
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