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

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.

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.

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

Unification is not our present goal. That is a future program.

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.

Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.