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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.