top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by South-korean Authors
"You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany."
34
"If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment."
33
"In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost."
24
"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."
24
"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."
23
"To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom."
23
"Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program."
23
"Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing."
22
"American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region."
21
"We are a people who can bring about miracles if united."
21
"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."
20
"Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside."
20
"Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers."
20
"So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside."
20
"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."
20
"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."
19
"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."
19
"Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated."
19
"No doubt it was better to have become president than not."
19
"We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny."
18
"I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency."
18
"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."
17
"So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region."
17
"I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy."
17
"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."
16
"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."
16
"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."
15
"Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them."
15
"I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors."
Will,
15
"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."
14
"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."
13
"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."
13
"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."
13
"If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan."
13
"You must constantly change and adapt to a new environment."
12
"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."
10
bottom of page