Kim Dae Jung

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 not our present goal. That is a future program.

So for mutual interest, I do want American presence 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.

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

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.

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

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 if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.