Quotes from Kim Dae-jung

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.

But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense I think IMF is very much helpful for alien society.

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.

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.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.