[speaking foreign language] [applause] chung, ly speaker ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the extraordinary privilege to speak in this Great Chamber and to address your people on behalf of the people of the United States of america. In our short time in your country, melania and i have been awed by anchingechent modern wonders and deeply moved by the warmth of your welcome. Last night, president and mrs. Moon showed us incredible hospital in a beautiful reception at the blue house. We had productive discussions on increasing military cooperation and improving the trade relationship between our nations on the principle of fairness and reciprocity. Through this entire visit, it has been both our pleasure and our honor to create and celebrate a long friendship between the United States and the republic of korea. This alliance between our nations was forged in the crews i believe of war and strengthened by the trials of history. From the landings to pork chop hill, american and south korean soldiers have fought together, sacrificed together and triumphed together. Almost 67 years ago in the spring of 1951, they recaptured what remained of this city where we are gathered so proudly today. It was the second time in a year that our combined forces took on steam casualties to retake this capital from the communists. Over the next weeks and months, the men soldiered through steep mountains and bloody, bloody battles. Driven back at times, they willed their way north to form the line that today divides the oppressed and the free. And there, american and south korean troops have remained together holding that line for nearly seven decades. [applause] more than 36,000 americans had died in the korean war with more than 100,000 others very badly wounded. They are heroes and we honor them. We also honor and remember the terrible price the people of your country paid for their freedom. You lost hundreds of thousands of brave soldiers and countless innocent civilians in that gruesome war. Much of this great city of seoul was reduced to rubble. Large portions of the country were scarred severely, severely hurt by this horrible war. The economy of this nation was demolished. But as the entire world knows over the next two generations, something miraculous happened on the southern half of this peninsula. Family by family, city by city, the people of south korea built this country into what is today one of the great nations of the world. And i congratulate you. [applause] President Trump south career climbed from total devastation and today your economy is more than 350 times larger than what it was in 1960. 1,000 900 ncreased times. Life expectancy has risen from just 53 years to more than 82 years today. Like korea and since my election exactly one year ago today, i celebrate with you. [applause] President Trump the United States is going through something of a miracle itself. Our stock market is at an alltime high. Unemployment is at a 17year low. We are defeating isis. We are strengthening our judiciary, including a brilliant Supreme Court justice and on and on and on. Currently stationed in the vicinity of this peninsula are the three largest aircraft carriers in the world, loaded to e maximum with magnificent f35 and f18 fighter jets. In addition, we have Nuclear Submarines appropriately positioned. The United States under my administration is completely rebuilding its military and is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to the newest and finest military equipment anywhere in the world being built right now. I want peace through strength. [applause] we are helping. And in the end we will work things out far better than anybody understands or can even appreciate. I know that the republic of korea which has becomeal tremendously successful nation, will be a fateful ally of the United States very long into the future. [applause] [applause] your Economic Transformation was linked to a political one. The proud sovereign and independent people of your nation demanded the right to govern themselves. You secured free parallel men tear elections in 1988, the same year you hosted your first olympics. You elected your first civilian president and when the republic you won faced financial crisis you lined up by the millions to give your most prized possessions, your wedding rings and gold luck keys to restore the promise of a Better Future for your children. [applause] President Trump your wealth is measured in more than money. It is measured in achievements of the mind and achievements of spirit. Over the last several decades, our scientists and engineers have geared so many magnificent things. You pushed the boundaries of technology. Pioneered miraculous medical treatments and emerged as leaders in unlocking the mysteries of our universe. Rean authors pened roughly 40,000 books this year. Korean musicians fill concert halls all around the world. Young korean students graduate from college at the highest rate of any country. And korean golfers are some of the best on earth. [applause] President Trump in fact, and you know what im going to say, the womens u. S. Open was held this year at Trump National golf it just w jersey and happened to be won by a great john park er, song and top eight players were from korea and the top four golfers, fromtwo, three, four, were korea. Congratulations. Congratulations. [applause] congratulations. And thats something. That is really something. Here in seoul, architectural wonders like the sixtythree building and the Lotte World Tower very beautiful grace the sky and house the workers of many growing industries. Your citizens now help to feed the hungry, fight terrorism, and solve problems all over the world. And in a few months, you will host the world and you will do a magnificent job at the 23rd lympic winter games. Good luck. [applause] pres. Trump the korean miracle xtends exactly as far as the armies of free nations advanced in 1953 25 miles to the north. There it stops. It all comes to an end. Dead stop. The flourishing ends, and the prison state of north korea sadly begins. Workers in north korea labor grueling hours in unbearable conditions for almost no pay. Recently, the entire working population was ordered to work for 70 days straight, or else pay for a day of rest. Families live in homes without plumbing, and fewer than half have electricity. Parents bribe teachers in hopes of saving their sons and daughters from forced labor. More than a million north koreans died of famine in the 1990s, and more continue to die of hunger today. Among children under the age of nearly 30 are afflicted by stunted growth due to malnutrition. And yet, in 2012 and 2013, the regime spent an estimated 200 million or almost half the money that it allocated to improve Living Standards for its people to instead build even ore monuments, towers, and statues to glorify its dictators. What remains of the meager harvest of the north korean economy is distributed according o perceived loyalty to a twisted regime. Far from valuing its people as equal citizens, this cruel ictatorship measures them, scores them, and ranks them based on the most arbitrary indications of their allegiance to the state. Those who score the highest in loyalty may live in the capital city. Those who score the lowest starve. A small infraction by one citizen, such as accidently staining a picture of the tyrant printed in a discarded newspaper, can wreck the social credit rank of his entire family or many decades. An estimated 100,000 north koreans suffer in gulags, toiling in forced labor, and enduring torture, starvation, rape, and murder on a constant basis. In one known instance, a 9yearold boy was imprisoned for 10 years because his grandfather was accused of treason. In another, a student was beaten in school for forgetting a single detail about the life of kim jongun. Soldiers have kidnapped foreigners and forced them to work as language tutors for north korean spies. In the part of korea that was a stronghold for christianity before the war, christians and other people of faith who are found praying or holding a religious book of any kind are now detained, tortured, and in many cases, even executed. North korean women are forced to abort babies that are considered ethnically inferior. And if these babies are born, the newborns are murdered. One womans baby born to a chinese father was taken away in a bucket. The guards said it did not deserve to live because it was impure. So why would china feel an obligation to help north korea . The horror of life in north korea is so complete that citizens pay bribes to government officials to have themselves exported aboard as laves. They would rather be slaves than live in north korea. To attempt to flee is a crime punishable by death. One person who escaped remarked, when i think about it now, i was not a human being. I was more like an animal. Only after leaving north korea did i realize what life was supposed to be. And so, on this peninsula, we have watched the results of a tragic experiment in a laboratory of history. It is a tale of one people, but two koreas. Ne korea in which the people took control of their lives and their country, and chose a future of freedom and justice, of civilization, and incredible achievement. And another korea in which leaders imprison their people under the banner of tyranny, fascism, and oppression. He result of this experiment are in, and they are totally conclusive. When the korean war began in 1950, the two koreas were approximately equal in gdp per capita. But by the 1990s, south koreas wealth had surpassed north oreas by more than 10 times. And today, the souths economy is over 40 times larger. You started the same a short while ago, and now youre 40 times larger. Youre doing something right. Considering the misery wrought by the north korean dictatorship, it is no surprise that it has been forced to take increasingly Desperate Measures to prevent its people from understanding this brutal contrast. Because the regime fears the truth above all else, it forbids virtually all contact with the outside world. Not just my speech today, but even the most commonplace facts of south korean life are forbidden knowledge to the north Korean People. Western and south korean music is banned. Possession of foreign media is a crime punishable by death. Citizens spy on fellow citizens, their homes are subject to search at any time, and their every action is subject to surveillance. In place of a vibrant society, the people of north korea are bombarded by state propaganda practically every waking hour of the day. North korea is a country ruled as a cult. At the center of this military cult is a deranged belief in the leaders destiny to rule as parent protector over a conquered Korean Peninsula and an enslaved Korean People. The more successful south korea becomes, the more decisively you discredit the dark fantasy at the heart of the kim regime. In this way, the very existence of a thriving south korean republic threatens the very survival of the north korean ictatorship. This city and this assembly are living proof that a free and independent korea not only can, but does stand strong, sovereign, and proud among the nations of the world. [applause] pres. Trump here, the strength of the nation does not come from the false glory of a tyrant. It comes from the true and powerful glory of a strong and reat people the people of the republic of korea a orean people who are free to live, to flourish, to worship, to love, to build, and to grow their own destiny. In this republic, the people have done what no dictator ever could you took, with the help f the United States, responsibility for yourselves and ownership of your future. You had a dream a korean dream and you built that ream into a great reality. In so doing, you performed the iracle on the hahn that we see all around us, from the stunning skyline of seoul to the plains and peaks of this beautiful landscape. You have done it freely, you have done it happily, and you have done it in your own very beautiful way. This reality this wonderful place your success is the greatest cause of anxiety, alarm, and even panic to the north korean regime. That is why the kim regime seeks conflict abroad to distract from total failure that they uffer at home. Since the socalled armistice, here have been hundreds of north korean attacks on americans and South Koreans. These attacks have included the capture and torture of the brave american soldiers of the uss pueblo, repeated assaults on american helicopters, and the 969 drowning of a u. S. Surveillance plane that killed 31 american servicemen. The regime has made numerous lethal incursions in south korea, attempted to assassinate senior leaders, attacked south korean ships, and tortured otto armbier, ultimately leading to that fine young mans death. All the while, the regime has pursued Nuclear Weapons with the deluded hope that it could blackmail its way to the ultimate objective. And that objective we are not going to let it have. We are not going to let it have. All of korea is under that pell, divided in half. South korea will never allow whats going on in north korea to continue to happen. The north korean regime has pursued its nuclear and Ballistic Missile programs in defiance of every assurance, agreement, and commitment it has made to the United States and its allies. Its broken all of those commitments. After promising to freeze its plutonium program in 1994, it repeated the benefits of the deal and then and then mmediately continued its Illicit Nuclear activities. In 2005, after years of diplomacy, the dictatorship agreed to ultimately abandon its Nuclear Programs and return to the treaty on nonproliferation. But it never did. And worse, it tested the very weapons it said it was going to give up. In 2009, the United States gave negotiations yet another chance, and offered north korea the open and of engagement. The regime responded by sinking a south korean navy ship, killing 46 korean sailors. To this day, it continues to launch missiles over the sovereign territory of japan and all other neighbors, test nuclear devices, and develop icbms to threaten the United States itself. The regime has interpreted americas past restraint as weakness. This would be a fatal iscalculation. This is a very Different Administration than the united tates has had in the past. Today, i hope i speak not only for our countries, but for all civilized nations, when i say to he north do not underestimate us, and do not try s. We will defend our common security, our shared prosperity, and our sacred liberty. We did not choose to draw here, on this peninsula [applause] pres. Trump this magnificent peninsula he thin line of civilization that runs around the world and down through time. But here it was drawn, and here t remains to this day. It is the line between peace and war, between decency and depravity, between law and tyranny, between hope and total despair. It is a line that has been drawn many times, in many places, throughout history. To hold that line is a choice free nations have always had to ake. We have learned together the igh cost of weakness and the high stakes of its defense. Americas men and women in uniform have given their lives in the fight against nazism, imperialism, communism and terrorism. America does not seek conflict or confrontation, but we will never run from it. History is filled with discarded regimes that have foolishly tested americas resolve. Anyone who doubts the strength or determination of the United States should look to our past, and you will doubt it no longer. We will not permit america or our allies to be blackmailed or attacked. We will not allow American Cities to be threatened with destruction. We will not be intimidated. And we will not let the worst atrocities in history be repeated here, on this ground we fought and died so hard to ecure. [applause] pres. Trump that is why i have come here, to the heart of a free and flourishing korea, with a message for the peaceloving nations of the world the time for excuses is over. Now is the time for strength. If you want peace, you must stand strong at all times. [applause] pres. Trump the world cannot tolerate the menace of a rogue regime that threatens with nuclear devastation. All responsible Nations Must Join forces to isolate the brutal regime of north korea to deny it and any form of t. You cannot support, you cannot supply, you cannot accept. We call on every nation, including china and russia, to fully implement u. N. Security council resolutions, downgrade diplomatic relations with the egime, and sever all ties of trade and technology. It is our responsibility and our duty to confront this danger together because the longer we wait, the greater the danger grows, and the fewer the options ecome. [applause] pres. Trump and to those nations that choose to ignore this threat, or, worse still, to enable it, the weight of this crisis is on your onscience. I also have come here to this peninsula to deliver a message directly to the leader of the north korean dictatorship the weapons you are acquiring are not making you safer. They are putting your regime in grave danger. Every step you take down this dark path increases the peril you face. North korea is not the paradise your grandfather envisioned. It is a hell that no person eserves. Yet, despite every crime you have committed against god and man, you are ready to offer, and we will do that we will offer a path to a much Better Future. It begins with an end to the aggression of your regime, a stop to your development of Ballistic Missiles, and complete, verifiable, and total enuclearization. [applause] pres. Trump a skytop view of this peninsula shows a nation of azzling light in the south and a mass of impenetrable darkness n the north. We seek a fu