Barack Obama actually said...

The thing I want to emphasize is that President Lee and I both agree on the need to break the pattern that has existed in the past, in which North Korea behaves in a provocative fashion; it then is willing to return to talks.

Context

Obama discusses the need for a new approach to North Korea's nuclear issue.

11/17/2009

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