The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be. Lawrence Eagleburger
Looking back... I think the North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them. Kim Young-sam
In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call. Barbara Demick
I hope that the North Koreans understand that the conclusions that we came to are conclusions that are embedded in America's security situation. Ashton Carter
This urge to give the North Koreans the benefit of the doubt is in marked contrast to the public fury that erupted after the killings of two South Korean schoolgirls by an American military vehicle in 2002; it was widely claimed that the Yankees murdered them callously. Brian Reynolds Myers
The difference between East Germans and North Koreans is day and night. Brian Reynolds Myers