#north koreans

The North Koreans have gained, or bought, a lot of time through the six-party-talks framework to pursue their own agenda. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

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Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

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The format's better because it gives us a much stronger hand to play when going to the North Koreans unified, with our allies and partners in the region, all of us saying the same thing: telling them their current course is unacceptable. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

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Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

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The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

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To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique. ↗

— Ted Koppel

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Again, I think we have much greater diplomatic weight by having all of us sit on the same side of the table wanting the same thing, and putting it to the North Koreans. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

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We are hopeful that the North Koreans can show a little bit more realism, a little bit more flexibility. ↗

— Mitchell Reiss

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If North Korea is allowed to maintain its nuclear weapons programs, other nations may well follow suit and some may buy such weapons from the North Koreans. ↗

— Robert F. Ellsworth

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