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Thursday, July 13, 2006

 

RELIGION & ETHICS Interview with Franklin Graham on North Korea



*** MEDIA ADVISORY *** MEDIA ADVISORY *** MEDIA ADVISORY ***

This week, Reverend Franklin Graham spoke to RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY correspondent Kim Lawton about his views on North Korea based on his 2000 visit there, the humanitarian work being done in the country through his relief ministry Samaritan's Purse, and his thoughts about the Bush administration's policy towards the North Korean government. Below are highlights from that conversation, which will also be included in this week's edition of the show (distributed Friday, July 14 on PBS). If you would like a copy of the full interview transcript, please respond to this e-mail or contact me at 202-216-2394. The transcript will also be posted on the program's Web site by 5 p.m. today: http://www.blogger.com/www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics

Mary Schultz
Director of Communications
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly
schultzm@religionethics.org

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According to Reverend Graham:

* "North Korea is the most dangerous place on the face of the earth right now. You've got a country that I feel is kind of backed up against a wall. I like to hunt, and I know if you ever back a dangerous animal up against a wall and don't give that animal a place to turn or to run, you've cornered him, he's going to come at you. And I just have a sense that with North Korea we may be kind of at that point with these people. We have to treat this very, very carefully. You don't want to get into a shooting war with these people. These are not like the Iraqis that are going to cut and run - where the army will just kind of fold in front of the American advance. These are people that will come at you wave upon wave. And millions of people could be killed - not hundreds, not thousands, but millions."

* I believe that the United States needs to talk one on one with the North Koreans, eyeball to eyeball. We have had our armies facing each other now for over 50-some years. It's time that we talked to them face to face, and we got to find a way to resolve this. Now, the six-party talks - I don't believe these are going to be successful. They haven't been successful up to this point . . . So, if we're going to find a way to solve this thing, I think the United States of America is going to have to talk face to face with the North Koreans. Doesn't matter if we like them. We don't have to agree with them, but we need to talk to them face to face.

* I don't speak for the evangelical community. I'm not a spokesperson for them. I 'm just a preacher of the Gospel who happens to have gone to North Korea, that happens to have worked in North Korea, and has seen some of the problems firsthand in North Korea, who believes the only way we can resolve this is through prayer with God's help, and then talking with the North Koreans face to face. I think that's extremely important. We need a dialogue, period. Without that dialogue, this policy is just going to stay drifting in this diplomatic sea . . . I would love to see President Bush just drop what he's doing someday and just get on a plane and go there and sit down and talk to Kim Jong-Il face to face, and shake hands, and invite him to come to this country, and let him get on a train and go from San Francisco to New York, and let him see it from one end to the other. I think it would change his perspective of us.

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