National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.

All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.

I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

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

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.