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On the recordNovember 17, 2009
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.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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

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