"We used to think North Korea was a very belligerent country that doesn’t care for the rest of the world, that they want to use nuclear weapons. But today he is making effort to establish better relations even with the United States. We should take North Korea at face value and get it to participate in international negotiations to moderate the rigid attitude it had before. We should take it as genuine, and try to establish good relations including a trade relationship with North Korea."
January 1, 1970