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Quotes by South-korean Authors
"If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment."
"Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program."
"You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany."
"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."
"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."
"At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point."
"In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost."
"I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency."
"The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period."
"Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated."
"Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them."
"American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region."
"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."
"Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing."
"No doubt it was better to have become president than not."
"We are a people who can bring about miracles if united."
"So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside."
"To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom."
"I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world."
"I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy."
"I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors."
"So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region."
"So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy, and market economy. Then that will give a good influence over Asian countries."
"To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government."
"Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside."
"Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers."
"But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society."
"So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized."
"We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny."
"There is much work to be done, and we are the ones privileged to do it."
"If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan."
"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."
"So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future."
"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 stark reality facing us today is that without the labour reforms, workers will get neither the income nor jobs in the face of cut-throat global economic competition."
"I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it."
"Where do we begin this process of reevaluation of values? It makes sense to begin with our mind, which is the tool we use to evaluate. Once we make sure it is functioning as it should, we can feel confident in using it to think about our beliefs and priorities."
"Recalibration of the mind means clearing our perceptions and recovering our capacity for pure observation."
"Rather than the kind of change that takes what we already have and augments it, like power to our cars and speed to our computers, I believe the kind of change we need now is a change of direction."
"When we acknowledge our greatness and start living it, when we open our hearts to the natural kindness and caring for all beings that resides within us, all these necessary transformations can begin."
"When we look at something, we are often not aware of who is perceiving, and unaware of the mental-emotional filter created by past experiences, hopes and expectations."
"Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves."
"Given that you desire to change things in your life much bigger than particles, how long do you maintain your observation and how much mental power do you invest in observing those things?"
"You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment."
"Recalibration comes from experiencing Nothingness, being open to emptiness as the ultimate reality and our nature. It is the purest mind, the Energy-Consciousness itself."
"Before you sleep, experience yourself as what you really are by recognizing the vast space inside you, and feeling the Energy-Consciousness, LifeParticles, overflowing through the space and through your body."
"Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding."
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