Richard Lugar actually said...

Negotiating with Russia will be a far more complex and difficult proposition than simply appealing for a new relationship.

Lugar emphasizes the challenges in negotiating with Russia despite shared interests.

03/18/2009

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Let me follow through on a comment that one of you made, that there may be 20,000 North Koreans in South Korea as refugees.

It would not appear to me that we have been particularly aggressive in our own policies or our own organization of this.

Proliferation of nuclear materials and missile materials coming out of North Korea is one of our major concerns.

It is difficult to imagine almost any scenario where known factions in North Korea taking over would make things better.