Kim Young-sam

Dawn will come even if the rooster is strangled.

Kim Young-sam (Korean: 김영삼; 20 December 1927 – 22 November 2015) was the president of South Korea from February 1993 to February 1998.

Quotes

North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them.

• Dawn will come even if the rooster is strangled.
  • As quoted in "Kim Young-sam: Former President of South Korea Dies at 87" (November 2015), by Sang-Hun Choe, The New York Times (22 November 2015), New York

• No ally is better than one’s own race.
  • As quoted in "What the West gets wrong about North Korea’s motives, and why some South Koreans admire the North" (8 September 2017), The Conversation

• Looking back... I think the North Koreans think they can say whatever they want because no matter what they do, the Americans will never attack them.
  • Interview (2009)

Quotes about Kim

• LKP carries on the tradition of President Kim Young Sam (1993-98). Like him it has no firm political principles.
  • Brian Reynolds Myers, "South Korea’s Nationalist-Left Front" (7 April 2019), Sthele Press