Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
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We are totally committed to ending partition and to creating the conditions for unity and independence.
In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries.
We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.
When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.
You have to live in the future, not the past.
Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.
Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.
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