Korea Quotes - Page 6

• If we let Korea down, the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after another.

  Harry S. Truman

  War, Cold, Soviet

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• It will begin with its President taking a simple, firm resolution. The resolution will be: To forego the diversions of politics and to concentrate on the job of ending the Korean war-until that job is honorably done. That job requires a personal trip to Korea. I shall make that trip. Only in that way could I learn how best to serve the American people in the cause of peace. I shall go to Korea.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Jobs, War, Simple

  Campaign speech, Detroit, Mich., 24 Oct. 1952

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• We're a country that owes $20 trillion. They [Japan, Germany, South Korea, Saudi Arabia] have to help us out.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Japan, Germany

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• President Obama is viewed by much of the world as feckless, weak, and incompetent, even antiAmerican - and that's by nations who are our allies and friends. As it pertains to China, Iran and North Korea (who just set off a nuclear weapon) they spit in America's face. They have no respect for America, and they sure as hell have no fear of America.

  Ted Nugent

  Iran, America, President

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• China should go into North Korea. China is totally powerful as it relates to North Korea.

  Donald Trump

  Powerful, Should, China

  First 2016 Presidential Debate Between Trump, Clinton, www.nbcnews.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The worst part of what we heard Donald [trump] say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other nations got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

  Hillary Clinton

  Japan, Arabia, Nuclear

  Source: time.com

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• As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.

  George Blake

  Kgb, Trying, Tasks

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• When they made that horrible deal with Iran, they should have included the fact that they do something with respect to North Korea. And they should have done something with respect to Yemen and all these other places.

  Donald Trump

  Iran, Should Have, Done

  "Transcript of the First Debate". www.nytimes.com. September 27, 2016.

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• The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was a safe bet that he felt that way about himself. Like most twice-widowed, Korea-vet, nature-loving, gun-enthusiast, bilingual, weed-connoisseur great grandfathers of five, he'd lived a full life.

  Lisa Lutz

  Running, Weed, Gun

  Lisa Lutz, David Hayward (2011). “Heads You Lose”, p.21, Penguin

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• Bush advisers have long been worried that a lagging economy could hamper the president's re-election chances. They hope that the Cabinet shake-up will provide a needed jolt. If that doesn't work, North Korea has to go.

  Jon Stewart

  Long, President, Cabinets

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• North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.

  Werner Herzog

  Influence, Mythology, Whole

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Just like we did in Japan, in South Korea. Just like is happening in Iraq. Laura [Bush] and I feel very strongly that if the United States were to leave.

  George W. Bush

  Japan, Iraq, United States

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• If we begin to say, "Well, maybe we can cope better with the Russians if we also transform ourselves into a managed society, if we, as somebody put it the other day, train our soldiers to be like the Turks, who have fought so bravely in Korea, if we are willing to change our whole way of life for the sake of so-called "survival," then I think we do exactly that which threatens our survival.

  Erich Fromm

  Thinking, Soldier, Survival

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• [Donald Trump] said that he would encourage Japan and South Korea to develop their own nuclear arsenals to lower U.S. costs, and then has denied that he would encourage nuclear proliferation to allies (although he did say so).

  David Krieger

  Japan, Nuclear Proliferation, Allies

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It's very enigmatic because of course, the population [of North Korea] has no contact with the world outside or it's very, very limited. They don't have any telephone connections, no radio, no TV, no movies, no newspapers - nothing from the outside world. This is very strange and there's the very strict, unifying government that forces you to be in step. You see it in the stadium where the spectators create, by flipping cards, an image of the dear leader, or of the volcano, and it's made of a 100,000 human pictures.

  Werner Herzog

  Government, Volcanoes, Leader

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In contrast, Western historians, and those in South Korea, say the North attacked the South on June 25, 1950. Both sides agree that after the war began, the North Korean Army captured Seoul in three days and pushed as far south as Pusan before American troops arrived to drive back the North Koreans nearly as far north as the border to China.

  Sheryl WuDunn

  War, Army, Usa

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• Hangeul is perhaps the most scientific system of writing in general use in any country.

  Edwin O. Reischauer

  Country, Writing, Use

  "East Asia: the Great Tradition". Book by Albert M. Craig and Edwin O. Reischauer, p. 435, 1960.

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• I will defend Korea as I would my own country-just as I would California.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Country, War, California

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• I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.

  Michael Caine

  Fun, Army, Elderly

  Source: www.npr.org

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• we ought to realize by now (see Korea, see Vietnam, see Afghanistan, see Iraq, see Iran) that deploying the US military, or dealing billions of dollars a year of arms to our ally of the moment that can serve as a regional rival to our enemy of the moment, is not always the best way to make threats go away. Our military and weapons prowess is a fantastic and perfectly weighted hammer, but that doesn't make every international problem a nail.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, Iran, Years

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.251, Broadway Books

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• Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in now.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Girl, World, Discrimination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• An exploration of the challenges Korea faces in transforming its economy from a government-directed, low-cost producer to an innovative world economic power based on its own scientific and technological development.

  Lewis M. Branscomb

  Government, Technological Development, Challenges

  "Korea at the turning point: innovation-based strategies for development". Book by Lewis M. Branscomb and Young-Hwan Choi, 1996.

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• If Mitt Romney can be pushed around, intimidated, coerced, co-opted by a conservative radio talk show host in Middle America, then how is he going to stand up to the Chinese? How is he going to stand up to Putin? How is he going to stand up to North Korea if he can be pushed around by a yokel like me? I don't think Romney is realizing the doubts that this begins to raise about his leadership.

  Bryan Fischer

  Thinking, America, Doubt

  "Radio's Bryan Fischer Tries Pushing Romney Right". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 14, 2012.

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• In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

  Alice Walker

  Baby, Believe, Thinking

  "No retreat" by Sara Wajid, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2006.

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• The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for honor and intellectual freedom, and longing for love and solace. Kyung-Sook Shin's characters have unforgettable voices-it's no wonder she has so many fans.

  Susan Straight

  Character, Fighting, Voice

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