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Q: (OFF-MIC) last week (inaudible) about the North Korea and (inaudible) behavior, so how
do you evaluate their WMD capabilities and their young leader?
ADM. LOCKLEAR: Well, I think that the young leader is -- for me is very difficult to determine
-- in fact, unpredictable, I believe, is the best -- best way I've seen. I think that his
behavior, at least the way it's reported and the way we -- the way we see it and sense
it, makes me -- makes you -- would make me wonder whether or not he is always in the
rational decision-making mode or not. And this is a problem.
It's a problem because of the -- the continued nuclearization of the country, the continued
pursuit of missile technologies, which threaten not only the peninsula, but threaten the region,
and eventually now they'll threaten the globe if -- if it's not constrained.
So in the end, we must demand a total denuclearization of North Korea. It's in the interest of not
only South Korea and the United States, but of all the people in the region. And now it's
in the best interests of everybody in the world. So the way ahead with -- with the new
leader there is not clear to me, but I think that it -- it is a potentially very dangerous
place.