I will restore a government based on principle and justice.
Creating a structure for mutual prosperity requires lowering regional and transnational barriers to facilitate the flow of goods and promote people-to-people interactions.
I hope peace is a part of everyday life.
I will do whatever it takes to help settle peace on the Korean Peninsula.
I believe that dialogue is necessary. We were unable to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue through only the sanctions and pressure.
When peaceful reunification comes, the first thing I want to do is to take my 90-year-old mother and go to her home town.
I will become a clean president. I will become a president who can retire home as an ordinary citizen and is welcomed by neighbors.
Denuclearization and the lasting peace on the Korean peninsula cannot be abandoned or delayed, as they are the historical assignment.
If necessary, we will have to strengthen sanctions even further, but the goal of sanctions must be to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table.
We must embrace the North Korean people as part of the Korean nation, and to do that, whether we like it or not, we must recognize Kim Jong-un as their ruler and as our dialogue partner.
For Korea, ASEAN has undoubtedly been a special and valued friend.
The president who achieved a true democracy. The president who built a peaceful relationship between the North and the South. The president who achieved a more equal and fair economy. That's how I want to be remembered.
I was thinking I wanted to finish my life there in Hungnam doing pro bono service.
We will prevent war, whatever it takes.
We can't afford to lose all that we've built from the ashes of the Korean War.
My parents fled from North Korea during the Korean War because they despised the North Korean Communist regime. They fled to seek freedom and came to South Korea.
Poverty dictated my childhood. But there were benefits as well: I became independent, more mature than my peers, and I realized that money is not the most important thing in life.
My goal is to resolve the North Korean nuclear problem and solidify peace during my term.
President Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize. What we need is only peace.
In 1988, the Summer Olympics were held in Korea, which was a divided country... It was an opportunity for the East and the West to come together in harmony and also take a significant role in ending the Cold War era.
