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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.

The United States must not allow North Korea to exacerbate tensions between our key strategic allies in Asia. As the leader of the free world, the United States needs to support our regional allies who are standing up to a Stalinist regime that is intent on developing nuclear weapons.

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.

The greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. A nuclear North Korea is already troubling enough.

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.

The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk.

We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

If we don't get our relationship with the emerging People's Republic of China right, that is something that could lead to global catastrophe.

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

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