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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.

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

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors.

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.

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 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.

If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.

Now North Korea certainly is located in a different place geographically, but I think it faces the same type of strategic decision. Does it want a different future for its people?

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.