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.

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• Kim Dae Jung:

  So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that ref

• Kim Dae Jung:

  So moderate is insisting that North Korea should open door to outside.

• Kim Dae Jung:

  So in Asia I want to make - I want to succeed to make a model of what success, practicing democracy

• Kim Dae Jung:

  So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korea

• Kim Dae Jung:

  So for mutual interest, I do want American presence in this region.

• Kim Dae Jung:

  If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China a

• Kim Dae Jung:

  I think a major cause of present Asian economic difficulties that mainly come from, you know, lack

• Kim Dae Jung:

  But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sens

• Kim Dae Jung:

  And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems,

• Kim Dae Jung:

  American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this regio