I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy.

I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.

Different times need different types of leadership.

I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

This year marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide -- the world's greatest humanitarian tragedy of the late 20th century. The international community had pledged 'never again' in the aftermath of the genocide in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s. Yet, we are witnessing today a different type of humanitarian disaster unfolding in Syria and Iraq.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

I understand that the end does not justify the means. And this should be a lasting value for democracy.