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  • I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • We have it. The smoking gun. The evidence. The potential weapon of mass destruction we have been looking for as our pretext of invading Iraq. There's just one problem - it's in North Korea. -- Jon Stewart
  • All of North Korea is a jail. -- Kim Young-sam
  • I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam. -- Stephen Ambrose
  • Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside. -- Kim Dae Jung
  • Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea. -- Edward Luck
  • There is a different future that is available to North Korea, if they choose differently. -- Mitchell Reiss
  • Any agreement that you have isn't going to be based on North Korea's intentions or trust. -- Mitchell Reiss
  • We can not underestimate the potential harm North Korea's capabilities can cause for the rest of the world. -- Zach Wamp
  • Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here. -- Richard Linklater
  • This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance. -- Cathy Freeman
  • You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. -- Kim Dae Jung
  • I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors. -- Kim Young-sam
  • When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn't producing any more. -- Noam Chomsky
  • My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. -- Shane Smith
  • Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea. -- John Bruton
  • Part of my heritage being Korean, it's going to be interesting going to Korea and answering these questions dealing with North and South Korea. -- Rick Yune
  • So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula. -- Kim Dae Jung
  • Movies without meaningful dialogue play well all over the world. The Apostle is probably the best movie of the year, but it won't do squat in Korea. -- Robert Benton
  • One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea. -- Newt Gingrich
  • When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged. -- Ha-Joon Chang
  • The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program. -- Mitchell Reiss
  • 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. -- Kim Dae-jung
  • Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies. -- Charles B. Rangel
  • 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? -- Mitchell Reiss
  • I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam. -- Benjamin Spock
  • The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert. -- Zach Wamp
  • In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore. -- Pico Iyer
  • My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system. -- Park Geun-hye
  • The idea that you can make love and not war really is pretty neat. That thing in Korea, the thing in Israel - that's all over the world. There must be a new way of thinking. -- F. Murray Abraham
  • The Marines in Korea never feared 'friendly fire' or artillery coming from the South Koreans - from their allies - like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted. -- David Douglas Duncan
  • We have treated our most serious adversaries, such as Iran and North Korea, in the most juvenile manner - by giving them the silent treatment. In so doing, we have weakened, not strengthened, our bargaining position and our leadership. -- Theodore C. Sorensen
  • I suppose I was very disappointed that I was injured during training for Korea. In fact, I had an argument with a grenade and it won, and consequently I was forced to come back to Australia for twelve months. -- Peter Scott
  • It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt. -- Chuck Norris
  • No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea. -- Kim Jong Il
  • In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence. -- Alice Walker
  • From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s - the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation - military schools were the track of choice for ambitious young men. -- Kim Young-ha
  • And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon. -- Kim Dae Jung
  • Because there are little to no consequences for conducting cyberattacks, criminals and nation-states are becoming bolder in their threats and behavior. Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are increasingly hacking into U.S. companies and government networks for espionage purposes or financial gain. -- Michael McCaul
  • I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks. -- Richard Armitage
  • In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea. Meanwhile, though, there was other news in my family: My father had become the Republican presidential nominee. As an ambitious young major, I refused any offers for other assignments. -- John Eisenhower
  • There's hardly any governmental censorship in Korea. -- Bong Joon-ho
  • Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. -- Don DeLillo
  • In time, all of Korea will be united in liberty. -- Richard Perle
  • My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea. -- David Alan Grier
  • What Iran wants and what North Korea wants is respect. -- Andrew Young
  • Reason doesn't mean very much in a country like North Korea. -- Ban Ki-moon
  • If I walk in the street in Korea, I am recognized. -- Yuna
  • I shot down two airplanes in Korea, so I wasn't a slouch. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated. -- Kim Young-sam
  • So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside. -- Kim Dae Jung
  • If North Korea doesn't have a deterrent, they will be wiped out. -- Noam Chomsky
  • North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons. -- John Bolton
  • Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside. -- Kim Dae Jung
  • We aim to achieve general progress in relations between North Korea and Japan. -- Shinzo Abe
  • North Korea is not an insane nation. It is not a crazy nation. -- Richard Armitage
  • We know North Korea has the plutonium that can go into the bomb, -- Mohamed ElBaradei
  • He was a combat veteran from Korea, and he was a great father. -- Mike Pence
  • Endless praise and adoration, limitless abnegation and abjection of self; a celestial North Korea. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California. -- Douglas MacArthur
  • I'm not sure about the parties. But whatever they have in Korea, that's bad. -- Justin Bieber
  • North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation. -- Werner Herzog
  • Iran is one of their biggest trading partners. Iran has power over North Korea. -- Donald Trump
  • America cannot afford to defend Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, South Korea, and many other places. -- Donald Trump
  • Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome. -- Bill Gates
  • Occasionally, the horrors of life in North Korea do show up in our American satire. -- Jennifer Armintrout
  • Donald Trump's idea that more nations should get nuclear weapons. Saudi Arabia, Japan, South Korea. -- Tim Kaine
  • North Korea is the country that the monkeys in the Wizard of Oz came from. -- Lewis Black
  • Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea. -- Marilyn Monroe
  • China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea. -- Donald Trump
  • Everything you see in North Korea, it's all propaganda, but it's all connected to the volcano. -- Werner Herzog
  • My dad fought in Korea. It was one of the first stories I remember hearing about. -- Paul Beatty
  • It would be nice if at least 1/3 of the people in Korea think that I'm modest. -- Seungri
  • I wanna try being a waiter at restaurant or work to introduce Korea to other people! -- Seungri
  • My goal with the Canadian border is the same goal I have for Japan and Korea. -- Mike Johanns
  • Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone. -- Horst Koehler
  • My parents were born in Korea. They spent a good part of their life in Korea. -- Randall Park
  • My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record. -- Ashton Eaton
  • I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.' -- David Douglas Duncan
  • The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I dont see why they cant engage with Iran. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
  • I've been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world. -- Christopher Hitchens
  • North Korea has certainly, in the past, used detainees to initiate diplomatic exchanges with the United States. -- Elise Hu
  • North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens. -- George W. Bush
  • Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea? -- Greg Giraldo
  • Talking about Korea, it has pretty high capital ratios at banks and maintains a good credit rating. -- Lee Myung-bak
  • North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational. -- Ted Lieu
  • The larger picture here is that a North Korea with nuclear weapons adds to the larger proliferation risk. -- Susan Rice
  • Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling. -- Yukiya Amano
  • We're a country that owes $20 trillion. They [Japan, Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] have to help us out. -- Donald Trump
  • I have had a great deal of interaction with Koreans and feel a fairly strong bond with Korea. -- Joichi Ito
  • Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea. -- Alice Cooper
  • For us, from Korea's perspective, China is the number one investment destination as well as number one trading partner. -- Lee Myung-bak
  • We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone. -- Sergei Lavrov
  • South Korea are pushing for a stronger way to isolate and punish North Korea for its latest nuclear test. -- Elise Hu
  • The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea. -- Ari Fleischer
  • My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea. -- Darrell Issa
  • I don't think that the United States cares. They just assume that North Korea will soon have nuclear weapons. -- Noam Chomsky
  • If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan. -- Kim Dae Jung
  • You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany. -- Kim Dae Jung
  • If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan. -- Kim Dae Jung
  • President Obama went to India, South Korea, then Japan. He's going to keep travelling until he finds his birth certificate. -- David Letterman
  • South Korea's economy is still difficult. I will create a country where nobody worries about putting food on the table. -- Park Geun-hye
  • Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all. -- Christine Lagarde
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  • In spring training I'm in every newspaper (in Korea) every day. In the regular season, they watch it on TV. -- Hee-seop Choi
  • Korea is an open society and we will make sure that there is no restriction on foreign investment in Korea. -- Lee Myung-bak
  • If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another. -- Harry S. Truman
  • I think it's a mistake to view North Korea as a government. It really is more like a criminal syndicate. -- Marco Rubio
  • Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam. -- Dan Jenkins
  • You have North Korea, you have nuclear weapons, and China could solve that problem. And they're not helping us at all. -- Donald Trump
  • I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam. -- Michael Caine
  • Are you really questioning the wisdom of central planning? Because the happy citizens of Cuba and North Korea beg to differ. -- Jonathan Gruber
  • The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. -- Adam Johnson
  • From the Chinese perspective, Korea ranks about third or fourth in terms of trading volume and about third in terms of investment. -- Lee Myung-bak
  • North Korea not only wants unification, it absolutely has to have unification. That's really the only way this state can feel secure. -- Brian Reynolds Myers
  • In the simplest of terms, what we are doing in Korea is this: We are trying to prevent a third world war. -- Harry S. Truman
  • North Korea threatened to attack if Sony Pictures released The Interview, forcing us all to pretend that we wanted to see it. -- Tina Fey
  • It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country. -- Kim Young-sam
  • The Korean War, which China entered on the side of North Korea, fixed Mao's image in the United States as another unappeasable Communist. -- Pankaj Mishra
  • States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. -- George W. Bush
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