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.

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.

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.

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.

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Down the steps, ...over the corpses, ...careers the pram with the child.

I may not amount to much but at least I am unique.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

Pictures rule, but words define, explain, express, direct, and hold together our thoughts and what we know.

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

Good thoughts not delivered mean squat.

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