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Instead of doubting or worrying about other people’s technologies, it would be better to think more deeply about countermeasures to defend yourself.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Prospectively, as a key offensive weapon of our military forces, it will carry out its own combat mission to overwhelm the enemy.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The adoption of laws and regulations related to the national nuclear force policy is a remarkable event as it's our declaration that we legally acquired war deterrence as a means of national defense.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is the most important challenge and supreme tasks facing our party to reverse the immediate public health crisis situation.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We knew( it was) just a matter of time. Last January, Kim Jong Un already revealed goals to develop and test new ICBMs among other high-tech weapons as part of Choi Yong-hwan five-year plan, last January doesn't matter what United States does or does not do... Pyongyang is squarely focused on meeting its nuclear weapons milestones because of its military imperative to do so.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
The U.S. has frequently signaled it’s not hostile to our state, but there is no action-based evidence to make us believe that they are not hostile, the U.S. is continuing to create tensions in the region with its wrong judgments and actions.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I say once again that South Korea isn’t the one that our military forces have to fight against, surely, we aren’t strengthening our defense capability because of South Korea. We shouldn’t repeat a horrible history of compatriots using force against each other.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Whatever decision we make and whatever actions we take, the responsibility for the consequences thereof will entirely rest with the South Korean authorities who stopped short of holding proper control of the dirty human scum.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Our foreign political activities should be focused and redirected on subduing the U.S., our biggest enemy and main obstacle to our innovated development, no matter who is in power in the U.S., the true nature of the U.S. and its fundamental policies towards North Korea never change.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
No matter who is in power in the U.S., the true nature of the U.S. and its fundamental policies towards North Korea never change.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It could presage a return to nuclear testing, which is now on the table given that Kim renounced his April 2018 moratorium.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The basic seeds and themes of the new five-year economic development plan are still self-reliance and self-sufficiency.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I have no strain with State Mike Pompeo. No, I have a very good relationship with State Mike Pompeo.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
We're making clear that the North is entirely responsible for all the consequences this might cause.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
When the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Manufacturing Plant goes into operation, it will represent a historical development in our country's fertilizer industry, it will be a glorious revolution and a splendid display of our nation's great economic potential, and it will be an uplifting banner that assures us of the achievements of our country's general economic frontline.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
If he is merely trying to avoid infection, it should theoretically be very easy to release photos or videos of a healthy-looking Kim.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
This will not be a Benghazi. Benghazi should never have happened. This will never, ever be a Benghazi.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
The world will witness a new strategic weapon to be possessed by the DPRK in the near future, we will reliably put on constant alert the powerful nuclear deterrent capable of containing the nuclear threats from the U.S. and guaranteeing our long-term security.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Such elated spirit and bluffing may greatly get on the nerve of the dialogue partner even at the slightest slip, the use of armed forces against the DPRK will be a horrible thing for the US.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
My impression was that North Korea and the United States would carry out dialogue soon, and it would go well.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I've told him we'll carefully examine it and make a decision in a way that serves our national interest.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
We cannot but develop nonstop super-powerful weapon systems to remove the potential and direct threats to the security of our country that exist in the south.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The latest launch has more political purposes as the North called it a show of force rather than firing drills like before, targeting the South's weapons purchases and joint exercises with the United States.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The operational capacity of a submarine is an important component in national defense of our country bounded on its east and west by sea.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think meeting here, two countries that have a hostile past, we are showcasing to the world that we have a new present and we have a positive meeting going forward, some are saying this meeting was preplanned but I was very surprised to hear about your offer on the tweet.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Kim Jong Un has given the United States until the end of the year to rethink its approach, but if they don't get a meaningful response to these tests, maybe they'll try to push the envelope further.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's an enormous challenge for that country to make its shift, it has for an awfully long time told its people that those nuclear weapons were the thing that kept them secure. They now need to shift to the narrative to 'those are the things that put them at risk.'.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I hope the talks will be successful and useful, i hope that we can discuss concrete questions about peace negotiations on the Korean peninsula, and our bilateral relations.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I hope that we can discuss concrete questions about peace negotiations on the Korean peninsula, and our bilateral relations.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is necessary to sweep away the whirlwind of sanctions by the hostile forces.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Kim does not want to look too dependent on Washington, Beijing and Seoul, as for Russia, the Putin-Kim summit will reaffirm Moscow's place as a major player on the Korean Peninsula. This meeting is important for Russian international prestige.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The United States is talking a lot about holding a third US-NK summit meeting, but we are neither pleased nor willing to see a summit like the Hanoi summit reenacted.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It is essential for the U.S. to quit its current calculation method and approach us with new one.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If it (the United States) keeps thinking that way, it will never be able to move the DPRK even a knuckle nor gain any interests no matter how many times it may sit for talks with the DPRK.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
That probably indicates that the North is triggering plans to diversify its diplomatic relations with other countries.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I make it clear once again that it is my unwavering determination to turn the North-South ties into those of durable and lasting reconciliation and cooperation by holding hands with the south Korean authorities and to write a new history of the nation, peaceful and co-prosperous.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
First of all, it is necessary for The United States to stop the current way of calculation and approach us with a new way of calculation, what is obvious is that if The United States sticks to the current political way of calculation, the prospects for problem solving will be dark and very dangerous.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
But it will be hard to get a good opportunity like the last time again.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
No deal is better than a bad deal, lifting key economic sanctions without proportionate denuclearization steps risk losing leverage.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Fast forward to Thursday in Hanoi, when, at a summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, President Donald Trump said this of Otto Warmbier and North Korea :.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's something the President focused on in his State of the Union, he complained about the 300 nominees that have been backlogged in the Senate.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It's something Republicans have been frustrated with for some time.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Vietnam and The US used to point guns and knives against each other, but they have become friends, we expect that Vietnam will serve as a background better than any other site for North Korea and The US to write a new history.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Our assessment is bolstered by our observations of some activity that is inconsistent with full denuclearization.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I'll endeavor towards a result that will be welcomed by the international community.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The world is going to see how this divided nation is going to bring about a new future on his own.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
And if North Korea hasn't made any credible steps then the concern is that President US Donald Trump might consider military options even before considering long term containment and deterrence, there's no telling what President US Donald Trump will decide to do.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I firmly believe that the strong will, sincere efforts and unique approach of myself and Your Excellency Mr. President aimed at opening up a new future between the DPRK and the U.S. will surely come to fruition.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I'm the only one that matters, because when it comes to it, that's what the policy is going to be, you've seen that, you've seen it strongly.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
General Secretary comrade Xi Jinping has shown us touching and familial support and concern.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It has not been easy to come to this point, for us the past has been holding us back, and old practices and prejudices have been covering our eyes and ears, but we have been able to overcome everything to arrive here today.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We overcame all kinds of scepticism and speculations about this summit and I believe that this is good for the peace, i believe this is a good prelude for peace.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It has not been easy to come to this point. For us the past has been holding us back, and old practices and prejudices have been covering our eyes and ears, but we have been able to overcome everything to arrive here today.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
For us, the past has been holding us back, and old practices and prejudices have been covering our eyes and ears, but we have been able to overcome everything to arrive here today.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
After all, this is a leader who hasn't hesitated to use decisive force against domestic adversaries and has been schooled in the lessons of his father and grandfather.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
The North Korea, for various reasons, are closer to being willing to freeze or even give up their program than they have ever been, and that is not a bad thing.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
During the Cold War, Russia subsidized everything in North Korea. North Korea was not a poor country, it was simply a subsidized member of what we can now call the Soviet Union's satellite states.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
After all, those of us living on the Korean peninsula suffer the consequences of your action, you Yankee!.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We have inwardly highly appreciated President Trump for having made the bold decision, which any other U.S. presidents dared not, and made efforts for such a crucial event as the summit, we even inwardly hoped that what is called.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I would like to conclude that President Trump's statement on the NK-US summit is a decision that is not in line with the wishes of( those) who hope for the peace and stability of the North Korea peninsula as well as the world, now that North Korea has clearly demonstrated that North Korea can be cooperative and come to the table, this United States cancellation makes North Korea's argument that North Korea is acting in good faith more plausible.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
If and when Kim Jong Un chooses to engage in constructive dialogue and actions, I am waiting.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We are sending this without any conditions attached. We are sending these out of love.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
What Kim Jong Un has said publicly and in discussions is that he is prepared to negotiate to achieve complete denuclearization of North Korea, those words are important, but we'll see what they mean.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
It is much more realistic to actually see it here, i wondered how they felt when holding hands, and now my curiosity has been satisfied.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I wondered how they felt when holding hands, and now my curiosity has been satisfied.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
We should be hopeful and encouraged by the events in Panmunjom( inside the DMZ), but we also need to keep a clear-eyed view of the nature of the Kim Jong family regime, and the history of its aggression, threats and provocations, stated claim to unify the peninsula under the North's control, and the documented human rights atrocities that are being committed against some 25 million Koreans living in the North, can a one-day event change the nature of the brutal Kim Jong family regime that has existed for some seven decades ? We should never forget the people living in severe oppression in the north while we admire the charm offensive conducted by Kim Jong Un.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We have reached big agreements before but were unable to fulfill them … There are skeptical views on whether the meeting today will yield meaningful results, if we maintain a firm will and proceed forward hand-in-hand, it will be impossible at least for things to get worse than they are now.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I feel like I’m firing a flare at the starting line in the moment of (the two Koreas) writing a new history in North-South relations, peace and prosperity.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We will make efforts to create good results by communicating closely, in order to make sure our agreement signed today before the entire world, will not end as just a beginning like previous agreements before today.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I was excited to meet at this historic place and it is really moving that you came all the way to the demarcation line to greet me in person, a new history starts now. An age of peace, from the starting point of history.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I was excited to meet at this historic place and it is really moving that you came all the way to the demarcation line to greet me in person.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I would like to keep close eyes on... this summit and find out if it is leading to concrete action.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We're not naïve in this process. We've seen some steps in the right direction but we have a long way to go.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
A successful summit would consist of actions by both sides to lock in these commitments -- which are reversible -- and start a sustained process to achieve further, verifiable constraints on North Korea's nuclear capability and reduce the risks of conflict.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
We expect the summit will confirm the denuclearisation will (of North Korea), and hope to have a comprehensive agreement with the North on the matter.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I’m announcing today that the United States of America will soon unveil the toughest and most aggressive round of economic sanctions on North Korea ever, we will continue to isolate North Korea until it abandons its nuclear and ballistic missile program once and for all.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We wanted to surprise everyone and bring world peace and then we’re being escorted out by security guards, which I think is really unfair, doesn’t everyone want peace?
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Kim Jong Un and Ri Sol Ju visit a cosmetics factory in October 2017. ( KCNA via Reuters).
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Lankov, an expert at Korea Risk Group, said. U.S. diplomats here and across the world are working to rein in the North Korean regime. But Lankov, also a professor at Seoul’s Kookmin University, said their efforts could be futile. Pohang, South Korea on Sept. 12, 2017. Experts say North Korea leader Kim Jong Un wants to have the capability of carrying out a major attack. ( Fox News) ‘ I don’t think there is, unfortunately, any way to stop them.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Certainly, we do not want things to get to a military conflict... but obviously, if North Korea takes actions that threatens the South Korean forces or our own forces, then that would be met with an appropriate response.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Under the extreme situation that the U.S. imperialist is misusing its military influence and is pressuring other countries and people to start war and catastrophe, the only way for our people to protect sovereignty and rights to live is to strengthen the quality and quantity of nuclear power and realize the balance of power.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Under the extreme situation that the U.S. Imperialist is misusing Kim Jong Un military influence and is pressuring other countries and people to start war and catastrophe, the only way for our people to protect sovereignty and rights to live is to strengthen the quality and quantity of nuclear power and realize the balance of power.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
But North Korean boats perform really poorly, with bad engines, risking lives to go far to catch more. Sometimes they drift, and fishermen starve to death.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
That'll be a great day, but it'll be relatively meaningless in one regard, it'll be a formal recognition of something which has happened anyway.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Kim Jong Un doesn't take very much for malnutrition to spike, kim Jong Un doesn't take long for malnutrition to spike either. So a short and fairly serious shock to the food system of the country can create quite serious implications for the population.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
When I was told I was going to be a spy... I felt stunned, there have been many accidents in the past with spies. A lot who were sent to South Korea were killed, so I assumed I'd die.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Look here, not there — look at our wonderful celebration, and don't look at why I was gone for 11 days,'.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The prevailing situation where a great war for national reunification is at hand requires all the KPA (Korean People's Army) units to become (elite) Guard Units fully prepared for war politically and ideologically, in military technique and materially.
Found on FOX News 10 years ago
I felt horrible about it, and I had to walk around like that for a few months, so I wore a beanie everywhere I went.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
If the atmosphere and environment is there, there is no reason not to hold a high-level summit (with South Korea).
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
Annual large-scale (U.S.-South Korean) war exercises are a source of heightened tensions on the Korean peninsula and increase the threat of nuclear war.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
North Korea's ultimate goal in cyber strategy is to be able to attack national infrastructure of South Korea and the United States, the hacking of Sony Pictures is similar to previous attacks that were blamed on North Korea and is a result of training and efforts made with the goal of destroying infrastructure.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
The hacking of Sony Pictures is similar to previous attacks that were blamed on North Korea and is a result of training and efforts made with the goal of destroying infrastructure.
Found on Reuters 10 years ago
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