I urge North Korea's leaders to reflect on Burma's experience. While the work of reform is ongoing, Burma has already broken out of isolation and opened the door to a far better future for its people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What does Burma have to give the United States? We can give you the opportunity to engage with people who are ready and willing to change a society.
The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.
I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.
I've always said that the more coordinated the efforts of the international community are, the better it will be for democracy in Burma.
We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.
North Korea is like China was 30-plus years ago. Through our contact, we are certain they will become more open and more liberated.
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.
I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.
I don't want Burma to be a basket case forever.
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.
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