North Korea cannot normalize relations with the United States. - Brian Reynolds Myers

In Germany, it's, let's say it's 5:59 and you're heading for the bakery or whatever and it's due to close at 6. The German will walk right up to that door and close it right in your face, they will lock it on the other side of that glass door with a shrug, like "sorry". A [South] Korean would never do that, ever. And, and this is what I like about them.

[W]e're entering the most dangerous phase in the region in decades. I'm really not all that hopeful.

In the late 1990s, North Korea was the main recipient of American aid in Asia.