I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

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