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.

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.

You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

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 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.

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.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy.

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.

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.

To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)

Mirad had asked for peace for his birthday.Imagine, a boy of thirteen who asks for peace as a birthday present.When I heard that I cried.

Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

It is necessary to have a strong focus. Work will give you that focus.

There's nothing I love more than a great truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.

We thank Thee, O Father of all, for... all the soul-help that sad souls understand.