“We really need to understand that the North Koreans are not as traumatized by things like the "Axis of Evil" remark or things like this Vinson flotilla as some people in the Pyongyang-watching community seem to think.”

—  Brian Reynolds Myers

2010s, Interview with the Reuters War College (April 2017)

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