North Korea Quotes - Page 6

• I think the entire world knows, and North Korea knows, that if they used any weapons on our soldiers they would be obliterated. And it would be an overwhelming response.

  Rand Paul

  Thinking, Korea, Soldier

  "Rand Paul On Syria: 'I Think There's Evil On Both Sides'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. September 11, 2013.

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• The Republicans finally got some good news over the weekend. The North Koreans set off a nuclear bomb. Thank God. It was so powerful it knocked the Mark Foley story right off the front page. And knocked him off the page he was on, too.

  Jay Leno

  Powerful, Weekend, Thank God

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• [We] mention the South China Sea, we mention North Korea, South Korea, we mention Ukraine. We could mention five others. Yemen, and this, and that. How many places can we do this? We have a country that is a debtor nation, we have an infrastructure that is crumbling all over the place, 60% of the bridges we have in this country are in trouble.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Ukraine, Korea

  Source: www.economist.com

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• If we - particularly, if we peremptorily attack North Korea - that without deliberation, that North Korea will reflexively unleash all the rocketry and artillery - which they're pretty good at, by the way - on Seoul, and do as they vowed many times, to convert Seoul into a sea of fire. So, if we do something like this, this will have cataclysmic results.

  James R. Clapper

  Artillery

  Source: www.politico.com

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• With what Trump is doing now, provoking North Korea, risking actual destruction of part of the US, he is violating the system's rules on its own terms. He's committing an actual threat against US national security. And you would think that in just pragmatic political terms in Washington, that is the kind of thing that could be grounds for impeachment. But as long as he sits in that chair, it's true, the commanders are obligated to obey his order.

  Allan Nairn

  Thinking, Long, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Obviously, the US does not want a shooting war with North Korea. But there has to be some path out of this situation that is also presented that is peaceful. We have sanctions, we have deterrence, but the third leg of any resolution to this problem has to be dialogue. It seems prudent for the US to not only threaten North Korea, but to also offer a way forward.

  Charles K. Armstrong

  War, Peaceful, Path

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The concern we should have is not that North Korea would suddenly launch a preemptive strike on Guam or any other target, but that the conflict escalates to the point that there is a miscalculation on one side or another and missiles or bombs are dropped.

  Charles K. Armstrong

  Conflict, Concern

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Kim Jong-un has been very threatening, beyond a normal statement. And as I said, they will be met with fire, fury and, frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.

  Donald Trump

  World, Threatening, Fury

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Violence has always been implied by previous US presidents: That is to say, if North Korea launched an attack, or crossed certain red lines, they would be met by devastating force. And this has been said even by people in the Obama administration very recently. But the kind of rhetoric that Trump is using is different, and I think probably not helpful, because it just provokes the North Koreans to ratchet up their rhetoric as well. At this point, it seems that we urgently need calmer heads on both sides, and we're not getting that.

  Charles K. Armstrong

  Thinking, People, President

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think there's much chance that the North Koreans would attack Guam or any other territory out of the blue. They would only counterattack if they felt existentially threatened. The questions is, At want point will North Korea feel it is threatened enough to make such a strike? We don't know that yet.

  Charles K. Armstrong

  Thinking, Chance, Korean

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I actually believe that we need missile defense, because of Iran and North Korea and the potential for them to obtain or to launch nuclear weapons, but I also believe that, when we are only spending a few hundred million dollars on nuclear proliferation, then we're making a mistake.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Believe, Nuclear Weapons

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• If a North Korean ballistic missile can reach Alaska, it can reach Vladivostok.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Korean, North Korean

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• It's clear the relationship between China and North Korea has hardly ever been worse. Kim Jong-un has never been to Beijing in his leadership. The Chinese press are saying some amazingly negative things about the north, and about Kim Jong-un. So - so they are weighing in, and they are bringing greater pressure. Whether it will be enough I think remains to be seen.

  Robert M. Gates

  Thinking, Chinese, Negative

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• My last visit to China as secretary, January of 2011, I told President Hu Jintao, just like this, "President of the United States wanted me to tell you that we now consider North Korea a direct threat to the United States." And it had no effect whatsoever.

  Robert M. Gates

  President, January, Threat

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I think that - that the disruptive nature, the tough talk on North Korea, the military deployments, sending the missile defense system to South Korea, I think these are all good things to have done.

  Robert M. Gates

  Military, Thinking, Deployment

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• When I was doing those things with the Berlin circus, playing the accordion, going to North Korea - I felt all those things were just me experimenting and letting myself go. Everything before seems like a constant searching. Now that I think about it, I feel so lucky that happened; that I didn't find my voice straight away, that I didn't find my passion straight away, that it took so long.

  Mauro Remiddi

  Passion, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.

  Donald Trump

  World, Threat, Fury

  "Trump's 'fire and fury' threat to North Korea sparks new fears of war" by Bryan Bender, Jacqueline Klimas, www.politico.com. August 8, 2017.

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• There's no military solution to North Korea's nuclear threats, forget it. Until somebody solves the part of the equation that shows me that ten million people in Seoul don't die in the first 30 minutes from conventional weapons, I don't know what you're talking about, there's no military solution here, they got us.

  Stephen K. Bannon

  Military, People, Forget

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• We're talking about nuclear war with North Korea. We're talking about Russia. Does it feel like the world has shifted? Are we all just in Donald Trump's reality show now?

  James R. Clapper

  War, Reality, World

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The basic problem with the Non-Proliferation Treaty is there's no teeth in it, no penalties for countries that don't comply. Worse, as you say, the very naïve structure of the NPT has actually made it helpful for countries who want to acquire nuclear weapons. Iraq, North Korea, Iran, all used the NPT to build up their nuclear programs.

  Kenneth M. Pollack

  Country, Helpful, Problem

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• The steady progress made by North Korea on its nuclear and missile programs is deeply concerning. The US cannot solve this problem alone. However, in order to take steps that could fundamentally affect the North Korean leadership and its decision-making, we need to work even more closely with our allies in the region who feel this threat acutely. I would urge China, in particular, to intensify its leadership role in helping to solve this crisis.

  Sam Nunn

  Progress, Helping, Korean

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The United States is committed to the complete and permanent denuclearization of North Korea. So important. China can fix this problem easily and quickly. And I am calling on China and your great president to hopefully work on it very hard. I know one thing about your president: If he works on it hard, it will happen. There's no doubt about it. They know.

  Donald Trump

  Doubt, Important, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I believe on foreign policy that there is little difference between the Democrats and Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We believe that the best course for containing North Korea's nuclear program is through diplomacy, and we disagree with the language the President Donald Trump has used, and the fact that he's made it more difficult for diplomacy to work.

  Ben Cardin

  Believe, President, Language

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The president has wanted to make it clear and he's made it clear that in the event that North Korea takes action that threatens the United States or our allies, that our response will be overwhelming and effective.

  Mike Pence

  President, Action, Overwhelming

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• The president desires a peaceful resolution of the confrontation with North Korea and we'll continue to pursue that, but it all begins when the Kim regime announces their willingness to abandon their nuclear and ballistic missiles program and not before.

  Mike Pence

  Peaceful, Desire, President

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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