'Evil empire,' 40 years later
The U.S. and the Soviet Union were still waging the Cold War, immersed in concerns about arms control and nuclear proliferation, when President Ronald Reagan, on March 8, 1983, warned against โthe aggressive impulses of an evil empireโ in โthe struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.โ Forty years later, those words ring truer than ever.
Source: koreatimes.co.kr