It has been a bit embarrassing for us as Americans to not play as strong a role as Germany. This is clearly changing this.

For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans,

If we have a change in relations, it is my personal view that Korean-Americans, Koreans in Germany, throughout Europe and throughout the rest of Asia, will do more to facilitate trade for North Korea than any group of individual companies or government programs,

That is wrong. Germany was not on the side of those waging war. We did not supply the Americans with any target data.

None of us had ever been anywhere before; we all hailed from the interior; travel was a wild novelty... We always took care to make it understood that we were Americans - Americans!

There is quite a big contrast between the political situation in Japan and Germany and investors are looking to play on that contrast.