"The U.S. commitment to this alliance is ironclad."
"At the same time, North Korea has become, at least in my view, more belligerent and more malevolent in the last year or two."
"I recognize--we all do--that the South Korean War--the Korean War was, rather, at the outset of the Cold War and in some respects we are facing another Cold War today, not with the former Soviet Union..."
"It is hard to imagine a place which is more technologically advanced than South Korea, that provides more products to the world than South Korea."
"as Senator Romney referenced."
"It seems to be that we have gone from pillar to post, guardrail to guardrail."
"We need to consider something to deter further missile testing and we do not have anything that is doing that right now."
"I think that is the fundamental problem with our approach today is that we still continue to hold on to this notion that we can--that we have time."
"I think we need to understand that what we are dealing with now--the nature of the denuclearization challenge right now is not nonproliferation."
"I think that is the reason why we have not been able to do it is that our perspective on trying to counter their action has kind of inhibited us."
"I think we need to be more--we need to take these lessons to heart and actually start to pull that process apart instead of looking for the big deal, at the end of the road kind of agreements."
"this policy is a failure and has to change."