You know, North Korea situation is far worse than East Germany, and South Korea is weaker than West Germany.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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