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Lee: To avoid war, you will have to wait until either Kim Il Sung is not there or the people around him have concluded that this is too dangerous a game to go along with. He is a wild card. So you have to keep up the pressure and remain patient.
China cannot be a bystander. She is too close to North Korea. You have to get the Chinese on board, and they will not come on board without settling a whole host of other issues so that they become part of the world management team for peace, stability, progress. One day you hammer them for human rights, the second day for the export of prison-produced goods. The third day for something else, and the fourth day you tell them: We are friends, so help me settle this.
You knew you were going to run into trouble with North Korea. Who are the people who can help you? The Chinese, definitely. They don't want war. They don't want ((South Korea)) to be demolished, because they want to use the South to refurbish the whole of their northeast. Harness that desire! But instead, you go on tormenting China. In ((U.S. Secretary of State)) Warren Christopher's final discussion with Jiang Zemin, Jiang said two things that were not reported ((by the official Chinese news agency)) to the press in China. I thought this very significant. Jiang said, "If we don't fight, we cannot become friends." In other words, it was positive. I want to be a friend. So we must have these quarrels. That this was left out of the reports in China meant that he did not want the Chinese people to know he was being conciliatory.