And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon. Kim Dae Jung Read Quote
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. Kim Dae Jung Read Quote
I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack of market economy. Kim Dae Jung Read Quote
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. Kim Dae Jung Read Quote
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. Kim Dae Jung Read Quote
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. Kim Dae Jung Read Quote
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. Kim Dae Jung Read Quote
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. Kim Dae Jung Read Quote
