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Kim Jong-un is not a rational person.
We will prevent war, whatever it takes.
I hope peace is a part of everyday life.
My father fled from the North, hating communism.
I will strengthen the South Korea-U.S. alliance.
There will be no war repeated on the Korean Peninsula.
Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.
I will restore a government based on principle and justice.
For Korea, ASEAN has undoubtedly been a special and valued friend.
My best quality is that I am persistent. My worst is that I am no fun.
I will do whatever it takes to help settle peace on the Korean Peninsula.
President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace.
We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War.
I will be a president that can share a glass of soju with the public after work.
For now we must continue to strengthen our sanctions and pressure on North Korea.
I was thinking I wanted to finish my life there in Hungnam doing pro bono service.
I am well aware of the concern and fear of the Chinese about the THAAD deployment.
Whenever democracy has fallen into a crisis, the Korean people have sprung up in rage.
My goal is to resolve the North Korean nuclear problem and solidify peace during my term.
No one shall take a military action on the Korean Peninsula without South Korean consent.
It is very deplorable that North Korea still does not uphold human rights, which are universal values.
What Korea and the U.S. both ultimately seek to achieve is the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program.
I will engage in sincere negotiations with the United States and China to find a solution to the THAAD problem.
The alliance with the United States is and will always be the foundation of our diplomacy and national security.
I do not see it as desirable for South Korea to take the back seat and watch discussions between the U.S. and China.
President Trump also mentioned that under the right conditions, he is willing to engage in dialogue with North Korea.
When peaceful reunification comes, the first thing I want to do is to take my 90-year-old mother and go to her home town.
The North and South were one people sharing one language and one culture for about 5,000 years. Ultimately, we should reunite.
I will become a clean president. I will become a president who can retire home as an ordinary citizen and is welcomed by neighbors.
Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.
I believe that dialogue is necessary. We were unable to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue through only the sanctions and pressure.
I myself hate the communist North Korean system. That doesn't mean I should let the people in the North suffer under an oppressive regime.
If necessary, we will have to strengthen sanctions even further, but the goal of sanctions must be to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table.
I do not agree that South Korea needs to develop our own nuclear weapons or relocate tactical nuclear weapons in the face of North Korea's nuclear threat.
My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and came to South Korea.
To respond to North Korea by having our own nuclear weapons will not maintain peace on the Korean Peninsula and could lead to a nuclear arms race in Northeast Asia.
Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.
I could sit down with Kim Jong-un, but I will not meet him for the sake of meeting him. I will meet Kim Jong-un when preconditions of resolving the nuclear issue are assured.
We must work to make the South-North Korea dialogue lead to talks between the United States and North Korea. Only then can we peacefully resolve the North Korean nuclear issue.
Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is not the most important thing in life.
South Korea and the U.S. share common interests with regard to the North Korean nuclear issue, so I promise that South Korea will fully consult with the U.S. on the deployment of THAAD.
We must embrace the North Korean people as part of the Korean nation, and to do that, whether we like it or not, we must recognize Kim Jong-un as their ruler and as our dialogue partner.
One of the biggest problems with this THAAD deployment decision was that it lacked democratic procedure, and it has resulted in a wide division of the nation and aggravated foreign relations.
When it comes to dialogue between South and North Korea and between the United States and North Korea, these can go on parallel tracks. South Korea and the United States can each play a role.
I'll always be on the move for peace in the Korean peninsula. If necessary, I will fly straight to Washington. I will go to Beijing and Tokyo and, if the conditions allow, to Pyongyang as well.
Kim Jong Un is an unreasonable leader and a very dangerous person. Yet he is the person who has effective control over North Korea, and he is the person who has the authority to denuclearize North Korea.
In 1988, the Summer Olympics were held in Korea, which was a divided country... It was an opportunity for the East and the West to come together in harmony and also take a significant role in ending the Cold War era.
When I drink a little, I sometimes recall my old days. Then I ask myself, 'What does Roh Moo-hyun mean in my life?' He really defined my life. My life would have changed a lot if I didn't meet him. So he is my destiny.
The president who achieved a true democracy. The president who built a peaceful relationship between the North and the South. The president who achieved a more equal and fair economy. That's how I want to be remembered.
Trump has put the resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue at the top of his priority list, and he has employed a tactic of maximum pressure and engagement, but engagement can only occur if the conditions are right.