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We do not think there is an issue of refugees between China and North Korea

We are very proud of our track record in Korea and elsewhere in avoiding some of the problems that were seen in those markets.

North Korea clearly at this time wants to retain a right to have a nuclear program of one kind or another.

North Korea clearly at this time wants to retain the right to have nuclear programs of one type or another,

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

North Korea did not single out the issues one-by-one but came up with a rudimentary opinion about the issue of a light-water nuclear reactor and the process of dismantling the nuclear program,

North Korea has asked Indonesia to provide its good offices so that the existing barriers would be removed and the talks can be resumed.

North Korea has a strong feeling to defend itself.

North Korea has a substantial and chronic food deficit,

North Korea has exhausted most of its diplomatic cards available. A remaining card is not returning to the negotiating table ... A nuclear test is unlikely as it would provoke China and other neighboring countries too much.

North Korea is a different situation as well, ... Different area, different dynamics, different leader, different possibilities. Syria is different from Iraq. Each of these nations must be dealt with based on their own specific situation.

North Korea is not going to give up its demand for a light-water reactor in this round and that it be discussed first, before disarming.

North Korea is one of the major proliferators and it appears that they are busy proliferating again,

North Korea needs to focus on what's on the table. We have to be a little firm and make it clear they they've go to come into the talks.

North Korea needs to get out, completely out, of the nuclear business.

North Korea only repeated the same explanations. It is important to find out what would be the most efficient way and timing for applying pressure.

North Korea should wipe out suspicions it is playing for time,

North Korea today faces a choice, ... If North Korea wants to have a brighter future, it needs to fundamentally shift the way it operates at home and abroad.

North Korea will attend the fifth round of six-party talks as scheduled, based on the commitments it has previously made.

North Korea will return to the talks in early November unconditionally,

North Korea would participate in the fifth round of six-party talks as scheduled,

But North Korea is very much suffering from economic difficulties, especially shortage of food. So social order is very much wavering.

But North Korea needs to make a strategic decision to set aside its ambition for nuclear weapons.

The president of South Korea is very keen that other countries help to engage North Korea by bringing it in from the cold.

Scientists have done a pretty good job of studying biodiversity in South Korea since the 1950's and I am confident that there is no place like the DMZ on the peninsula,

South Korea has entered a normal recovery track, where economic growth, consumer prices and exports are in better shape.

South Korea is heavily dependent on exports and therefore accepts the general assumption that this trend will continue with no reversal.

South Korea is seen as a U.S. ally and would not be seen as a neutral nation in the eyes of many of the countries in the world.

South Korea put a lot of pressure on the United States ... South Korea told us they consider this an alliance issue.

South Korea put a lot of pressure on the United States South Korea told us they consider this an alliance issue,

That's not a concern, frankly, ... I think as a result of our discussions with Governor Richardson, I think we both share an interest in seeing North Korea make the right decision with regard to ending its nuclear program and choosing a path of reintegration with the international community.

That's not a concern, frankly. I think as a result of our discussions with Governor Richardson, I think we both share an interest in seeing North Korea make the right decision with regard to ending its nuclear program and choosing a path of reintegration with the international community.

That's why Bandai is turning to Korea as a learning center to bring these things over to Japan.

They think China, the U.S. and South Korea are going to gang up on them.

SAS is proud of its contributions to the closer communications between Korea and Denmark. It helps to bring together many of the cultural and economic representatives of each country.

Five nations working with North Korea have come up with a formula, which we all hope works, ... Five nations have spoken, and said it is not in the world's interest that North Korea has a nuclear weapon.

There's good flows going into the stock exchange, helping the currency. The Bank of Korea is protesting at the strength, but it lacks credibility. It's said this before, but the currency has still strengthened.

The result of this round of talks will depend on whether or not North Korea can actually commit itself to a strategic decision to abandon all of its nuclear arms and nuclear programs,

We think the market was too pessimistic on Asia. The only issue is that the main growth is in low margin markets like India, Korea and Taiwan.

To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress.

We also recognize that there is work where we at United do not have an advantage. That work is performed for us by vendors in the U.S., Korea and other countries, now including China.

The way they heat their homes in Korea is to put bricks under the floors, so the heat actually radiates from underneath the floor.

This FTA with the U.S. is also intriguing because I think it could be an anchor that could force Korea to deregulate the economy and liberalize it further.

This bargain that we struck with North Korea is working. We think that it increases the chances that North Korea's nuclear program will stay frozen, and eventually be dismantled.

This is the best game China has ever played against the Koreans. I don't think any team, even the US team, could hold South Korea to only two points in a quarter.

This is a topic that was specifically mentioned in the fourth round, that North Korea has the right to peaceful use to nuclear energy. This will be discussed at an appropriate time.

This is an excellent competitive opportunity and a critical piece of our team's pre-world championship training. We look forward to bringing the USA team to Seoul and we are excited to face experienced national teams from Korea and Lithuania.

This issue is only a skirmish in preparation for a huge battle -- over whether North Korea is willing to give up its nuclear weapons.

In Korea it worked out because the players were aware of what they were supposed to do, but still it is in their hands.

In five years, North Korea could have 100 nuclear weapons and be churning out more like a fast-food chef with nothing else to keep its economy going. North Korea will peddle them to the highest bidder.

In 1993, Israel and North Korea were moving towards an agreement in which North Korea would stop sending any missiles or military technology to the Middle East and Israel would recognize that country. President Clinton intervened and blocked it.

I'll be briefing the administration as soon as we leave North Korea, ... You can't brief them from North Korea because either calls are monitored or the communication system's not the best. So, the moment we're back on our Air Force plane which has telephones and fax and Internet capabilities, that's when I'll most likely brief him, the moment we leave. It's very hard to do it in country.

If the rate expectations continue to come down, Hong Kong, as an interest rate sensitive market will likely benefit. Moreover, if the interest rate expectations drop, the U.S, growth expectations will also taper off. This will also encourage money to flow from the growth sensitive markets, notably Korea and Taiwan. Hong Kong will be an idea destination.

I made clear to them my view that whoever wins the presidential election, whether it's President Bush or Senator Kerry, North Korea would be faced with broadly the same strategic policy from the United States,

I had thought that North Korea might compromise even a bit in order to speed up talks on normalization of diplomatic ties, but as always our message fell on deaf ears.

If I were sitting in North Korea, I wouldn't be too worried. We know the United States is tied down in Iraq, ... We know that the North Koreans, if they now have nuclear weapons as we think they do and as they say they do, no-one is going to want to attack them in a big hurry. It is simply too dangerous. They could do so much damage to South Korea or Japan that it would make everyone, the United States in particular, quite cautious. So I don't think that they are genuinely worried about an invasion. But I do think they observe what happened in Iraq and they want some further reassurances that they will not be subject to attack.

If North Korea is looking gain the support of the U.S., this is not the way to do it.

If North Korea started going on the offensive, it could cause uncertainty in the region and could lead to deterioration in the economy and further fright in the stock market.

If North Korea wants something or wants to do something, then it's time for them to sit down in the multilateral discussions that we've proposed.

In order to obtain any joint statement at all, the U.S. negotiator Christopher Hill shifted from the Bush administration's 'never-again' position to one of avowing 'respect' for North Korea regaining its sovereign right to acquire light-water reactor technology and to discuss such provision at an 'appropriate' time.

If the U.S. is willing to offer sufficiently attractive inducements ... I don't think that North Korea will hold up future progress in order to get a commitment for a reactor right away.

I hope the Democratic People's Republic of Korea delegation has done some homework. We had more than four weeks to look at the text of the proposed agreement.

takes the pressure off the United Nations with regard to North Korea and avoids a contentious debate about sanctions at a time when talks with North Korea had stalled.

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

The Bank of Korea has been doing well guarding against inflationary pressures. The Korean economy is having a good recovery and the shift of focus is really to guard against overheating.

talk directly to the North Koreans. That's what's been missing. ... It has led to real failure in these policies. The nuclear threat is increasing from North Korea as a result.

Any American who watches Korea in Washington will watch closely how it will unfold.

Aruba is not Cuba, North Korea or Iraq. We are friends with America. Most tourists come from the United States and we work together to combat drugs criminality and money laundering,

It used to be that when a country joined the nuclear club, they suddenly decided that it was just large enough, and they didn't want to help anyone else join. ...Now we have countries joining the nuclear missile club who say 'the more the merrier.' North Korea is out selling its dangerous technology to anyone who wants to spend the money to buy it.

The North Korea news is also likely to be positive for the dollar.

The issue of human rights is a national security issue for us and while we have lots of issues to address with North Korea and we have lots of issues to address with China, the prism through which we evaluate their conduct is very much a human rights prism.

The fee per referee has doubled from South Korea and Japan four years ago when it was $20,000 each. For the first time we're also giving something to the referees and assistants who don't make it. They've worked hard and come a long way, even if in the end they weren't successful.

It's very valuable to the State Department to have what are called second track contacts with North Korea because they are more frank, and they're not burdened by the official process.

The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.

Iran and North Korea are two countries that have been spending a great deal of time and money to develop several different types of advanced ballistic missiles, including a type that could possibly reach the U.S. homeland with a weapon of mass destruction in the near future.

I know of some toilets in Korea where you can drink tea -- you don't feel you are in an awkward situation.

I have the feeling that North Korea will not flatly reject the proposal, since it would not hurt the North to establish a framework for solving problems with Japan.

can't be achieved without verified assurances that North Korea is free of nuclear weapons.

H is appointment will greatly enhance our efforts to encourage North Korea to accept and abide by internationally accepted human rights standards and norms.

Do you know how short you have to be to have a Napoleon complex in North Korea?

Chaos in North Korea is still seen as the most likely scenario for some 'adventurism' with conventional or nuclear weapons.

By buying out Softbank... our strategic flexibility to take advantage of international growth opportunities in Korea and Europe will be enhanced, and this new structure should lead to a more efficient, longer-term operating and tax model.

By buying out Softbank's JV (joint venture) interests, our strategic flexibility to take advantage of international growth opportunities in Korea and Europe will be enhanced, and this new structure should lead to a more efficient, longer-term operating and tax model.

For North Asia, Korea is the prime candidate to see consumption-led demand in 2006, given the turnaround of domestic spending.

Georgia is the front runner, and we think we're in like the second place. Our sources in Korea - and not the media - tell us an announcement could come as soon as next week.

The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

The two parties agreed to disagree and papered over the differences. It will take a long time before North Korea will be accepted as a responsible member of the international community, at least 2 years.

The world is closely watching us, ... Why President Kim came to North Korea and why I accepted is a question mark. We have to give the answer to this question during the two nights and three days.

There still is a lot of negotiating that will have to be completed in November, including the specifics of the agreements and time frames. But in essence, North Korea has agreed to end its existing nuclear weapons and ongoing development and to include inspections in exchange for a U.S. agreement not to invade or attack North Korea and to gradually normalize relations.

They are going to North Korea independent of the administration,

They have to come to realize that nuclear weapons for North Korea do nothing for North Korea's security, ... We need to get North Korea to understand that its security is not tied up with nuclear weapons. Its security is tied up in good relations with other countries.

It's an amazing and diverse team. Fraud fighters from the U.K. to Uruguay, from Korea to Kansas, have collected and forwarded information to the FTC on more than 1,600 suspect sites.

If you're not fascinated by Korea yet, you damn well should be. The most innovative country on earth deserves a hilarious and poignant account on the order of Euny Hong's The Birth of Korean Cool. Her phat beats got Gangnam Style and then some.

The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action.

North Korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its citizens.

States like (Iraq, Iran, & North Korea), and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

Asia can learn much from Europe. Trade could be made easier in Asia, and the conditions for doing business could be improved by reducing red tape. In this regard, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea have done better than the best in Europe.

Asia-Pacific is the fastest growing user region with markets like India, China and Korea leading the pack as Internet and broadband penetration rise.

A nuclear program has arguably worked as a deterrent for North Korea and other states - would Moammar Gadhafi have been deposed and summarily killed if Libya had had nuclear weapons? Iranians might not think so.