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Kim Yo-jong

Inserted 1 year ago

“We are carefully examining the influence it would exert on the security of our state. The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends upon the US forces.”

Aljazeera

North Korean politician serving as the Deputy Director of the United Front Department of the Workers' Party of Korea

20 Feb 2023 2 2

Kim Yo-jong

Inserted 1 year ago

“I warn that we will watch every movement of the enemy and take corresponding and very powerful and overwhelming counteraction against its every move hostile to us.”

Aljazeera

North Korean politician serving as the Deputy Director of the United Front Department of the Workers' Party of Korea

18 Feb 2023 0 3

Harry Harris

Inserted 1 year ago

“The U.S. intelligence community assesses that KJU [Kim Jong-un] views nuclear weapons as the ultimate deterrent against foreign intervention. KJU declared last year that he would be willing to employ nukes more broadly in wartime, and last September, he stated unequivocally that he would never give up his nukes and the North Korea's status as a nuclear weapons state is irreversible. We must not relax sanctions or reduce joint military exercises just to get North Korea to come to the negotiating table. This is a fool's error. While we hope for diplomacy with North Korea to be successful, we must recognize that hope alone is not a course of action. The quest for dialogue with the North must never be made at the expense of the ability to respond to threats from the North.”

Koreatimes

Former United States Ambassador to South Korea

03 Jan 2023 2 4

Kim Yo-jong

Inserted 1 year ago

“The U.S. should be mindful that no matter how desperately it may seek to disarm (North Korea), it can never deprive (North Korea) of its right to self-defense and that the more hell-bent it gets on the anti-(North Korea) acts, it will face a more fatal security crisis.”

Apnews

North Korean politician serving as the Deputy Director of the United Front Department of the Workers' Party of Korea

22 Nov 2022 1 2

Bonnie Jenkins

Inserted 1 year ago

“If they would have a conversation with us ... arms control can always be an option if you have two willing countries willing to sit down at the table and talk. And not just arms control, but risk reduction - everything that leads up to a traditional arms-control treaty and all the different aspects of arms control that we can have with them. We've made it very clear to the DPRK ... that we're ready to talk to them - we have no pre-conditions.”

Reuters

United States Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security

29 Oct 2022 3 3

Scott Snyder

Inserted 1 year ago

“If we consider the lessons learned from Hanoi, one possible lesson Kim Jong-un may have taken from the experience is that from his perspective, the United States did not take sufficiently seriously the idea that the North was negotiating from a position of strength. North Korea is asserting that its laws make denuclearization negotiations a non-starter. As a result, it is hard to imagine how the United States and North Korea will be able to frame a diplomatic negotiation process around a set of commonly held objectives. A logical course of action would be to further strengthen the North's military program so that its nuclear capabilities would be regarded as undeniable and irreversible. Once North Korea's Kim believes he has adequately achieved those objectives, he might in principle then be ready to return to diplomatic negotiations with the United States, but from an even stronger position than the North's Kim was in when he met with Trump in Hanoi in February of 2019.”

Koreatimes

Senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank

15 Sep 2022 5 4

Wendy Sherman

Inserted 1 year ago

“Any nuclear test would be in complete violation of UN Security Council resolutions [and] there would be a swift and forceful response to such a test. The entire world will respond in a strong and clear manner. We are prepared.”

Aljazeera

US Deputy Secretary of State

07 Jun 2022 3 5

Kim Sung

Inserted 1 year ago

“U.S. intelligence believes that the North is preparing its Punggye-ri test site for what would be its seventh nuclear test. This assessment is consistent with the DPRK's own recent public statements. We are preparing for all contingencies in close coordination with our Japanese and ROK allies. Furthermore, we are prepared to make both short and longer term adjustments to our military posture as appropriate in responding to any DPRK provocation and as necessary to strengthen both defense and deterrence to protect our allies in the region.”

Koreatimes

US Special Representative for North Korea

03 Jun 2022 6 4

Jenny Town

Inserted 1 year ago

“I think it was a big mistake for the U.S. to push for what was sure to fail rather than showing unified opposition to North Korea's actions. In the current political environment, the idea that China and Russia could agree with the U.S. on anything would have sent a strong signal to Pyongyang.”

Reuters

Director of the U.S.-based 38 North programme, which monitors North Korea

27 May 2022 3 3

Shin Beom-chul

Inserted 2 years ago

“The North Korean nuclear issue was already low on Biden's agenda as the Kim regime has remained unresponsive to U.S. calls to return to the negotiating table. The only way to bring North Korea back to the bargaining table is by the U.S. making concessions to the North, which is not going to happen in consideration of the current U.S. stance. Due to these reasons, the North Korea issue has been pushed back on the priority list.”

Koreatimes

Director of the Center for Diplomacy and Security at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy

20 Dec 2021 3 2

Ankit Panda

Inserted 2 years ago

“For a few years now they've [North Korea] demanded to be treated by the United States as an equal and see the development of ever-more-advanced nuclear and missile capabilities as one way to earn that respect.”

Bbc

Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

24 Oct 2021 3 5

Go Myong-hyun

Inserted 2 years ago

“We should see Tuesday's [October 19th, 2021] launch as North Korea deciding on a compromise in showcasing its military power, in order to get the U.S. to pay greater attention to issues on the Korean Peninsula.”

Koreatimes

Senior fellow at the Asan Institute for Policy Studies

20 Oct 2021 4 4

US Indo-Pacific Command

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are aware of the North Korean ballistic missile launch this morning into the Sea of Japan and are consulting closely with the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan. This event does not pose an immediate threat to US personnel, territory, or that of our allies.”

Aljazeera

Statement by US Indo-Pacific Command

19 Oct 2021 4 4

Park Won-gon

Inserted 2 years ago

“The North Korean leader's speech boiled down to his ambition to gain the country recognition as a nuclear-armed state. Given that North Korea stresses the double standards, Kim's [Kim Jong-un] speech means South Korea and the U.S. should not take issue with Pyongyang's weapons development as it is part of the North's self-defense.”

Koreatimes

Professor of North Korean studies at Ewha Womans University

12 Oct 2021 4 5

Kim Jong-un

Inserted 2 years ago

“The United States has been frequently signaling that it's not hostile to our country, but there has been no behavioral ground to believe that it is not. For our descendants we need to be strong. We need to first be strong. The military threats our country is facing is different from what we saw 10, five or three years ago. Tensions on the Korean Peninsula will not be easily resolved due to the U.S. Our enemy is war itself, not a certain country or forces like South Korea and the U.S. But our external efforts for peace does not in any way mean giving up our rights to self-defense.”

Koreatimes

Leader of North Korea

11 Oct 2021 4 5

Ned Price

Inserted 2 years ago

“Even when we disagree with a particular regime, we believe that we must work to the best of our ability to do all we can to alleviate the suffering of the people. And so we continue to support international efforts aimed at the provision of critical humanitarian aid to the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea]. It's important to emphasize, at the same time, that the DPRK regime itself is primarily responsible for the humanitarian situation in the country. The regime continues to exploit its own citizens, to violate their human rights, to divert resources from the country's people to build up its unlawful WMD [weapon of mass destruction] and ballistic missiles program.”

Koreaherald

Spokesperson for the United States Department of State

07 Oct 2021 7 4

Jae-yun Shim

Inserted 2 years ago

“It is high time for all the relevant parties to combine their efforts toward a single purpose - peace on the Korean Peninsula. The U.S., in particular, can play a crucial role toward that end. As already stated, the U.S. needs to cherish the spirit of the Singapore Agreement, a move toward peace and reconciliation. The North is desperate to earn equal status to other nations. Once it feels regime safety, it will come forward to the international community as a responsible and 'normal' member, instead of expanding its nuclear capabilities. For this, the easing of international 'retaliations' is necessary and the U.S. role is all the more crucial. This will in turn lead to regional peace and the North's lessened dependence on China, which will be in the interests of the U.S.”

Koreatimes

Journalist at The Korea Times

06 Oct 2021 5 6

Yang Moo-jin

Inserted 2 years ago

“After Kim Yo-jong's statement, North Korea appeared to be contemplating whether to resume regular communication with South Korea, or to test Seoul's willingness to act as it desires by launching a missile, and the regime chose the latter. It seems that the North is waiting for the moment when South Korea and the U.S. do not describe its missile launch as a threat or provocation. And such a moment could be a turning point for Pyongyang in resuming communication with Seoul and engaging in further activities for talks.”

Koreatimes

Professor at the University of North Korean Studies and the vice chairman of the Korean Association of North Korean Studies

28 Sep 2021 5 5

Kim Song

Inserted 2 years ago

“We are just building up our national defence in order to defend ourselves and reliably safeguard the security and peace of the country. If the US gave up its hostility, North Korea would respond willingly at any time. But it is our judgement that there is no prospect at the present stage for the US to really withdraw its hostile policy.”

Aljazeera

North Korea’s UN envoy

27 Sep 2021 2 3

Harry Kazianis

Inserted 2 years ago

“The DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] knows President Moon [Moon Jae-in] wants to take one last shot at forging a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula, while the North wants sanctions relief. It seems to me that due to these factors - and if the U.S. is at least willing to entertain some sort of sanctions relief - an inter-Korean summit seems inevitable.”

Koreatimes

Senior director of Korean Studies at the Center for the National Interest

26 Sep 2021 7 7

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“We are carefully examining the influence it would exert on the security of our state. The frequency of using the Pacific as our firing range depends upon the US forces.”

“I warn that we will watch every movement of the enemy and take corresponding and very powerful and overwhelming counteraction against its every move hostile to us.”

“The U.S. should be mindful that no matter how desperately it may seek to disarm (North Korea), it can never deprive (North Korea) of its right to self-defense and that the more hell-bent it gets on the anti-(North Korea) acts, it will face a more fatal security crisis.”

“Any nuclear test would be in complete violation of UN Security Council resolutions [and] there would be a swift and forceful response to such a test. The entire world will respond in a strong and clear manner. We are prepared.”

“I think it was a big mistake for the U.S. to push for what was sure to fail rather than showing unified opposition to North Korea's actions. In the current political environment, the idea that China and Russia could agree with the U.S. on anything would have sent a strong signal to Pyongyang.”

“For a few years now they've [North Korea] demanded to be treated by the United States as an equal and see the development of ever-more-advanced nuclear and missile capabilities as one way to earn that respect.”

“We should see Tuesday's [October 19th, 2021] launch as North Korea deciding on a compromise in showcasing its military power, in order to get the U.S. to pay greater attention to issues on the Korean Peninsula.”

“We are aware of the North Korean ballistic missile launch this morning into the Sea of Japan and are consulting closely with the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan. This event does not pose an immediate threat to US personnel, territory, or that of our allies.”

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