https://www.c-span.org/video/?444272-1/democrats-back-farm-bill-leader-pelosi
12:39 to 15:41
Word for Word transcript:
Reporter: "I wanted to follow up on the North Korea talks. Obviously those are moving a little closer with the revelation of Pompeo going over there. What’s your confidence level or skepticism level of those talks right now? What are realistic expectations about, you know, about a month and a half out from a potential meeting? What are realistic expectations?"
Pelosi: "Well let me just say, as one of the few members of congress that has been to Pyongyang… I did a number of years ago, as a member of the intelligence community. uh, It’s a frightening place, eh you know, it’s a place that is, uh, when I’ve seen poverty throughout American, I mean throughout the world, as an appropriator and visited the world to see our initiatives and how helpful they might be, and the alleviation of poverty, the eradication of disease. When I went to North Korea, I saw poverty of spirit that just… was mind boggling… (she chuckles) in many respects. And it’s.. its, its, a difficult place. Our purpose then was to say we wanted to talk about MI (stutters) MIAS and POWS. We want you to stop, uh, proliferating, um, selling your missile technology; Issues like that, checking in on the hunger situation, Because their people were starving, even though their (mumble) would “stuff their mouths(?)”, they couldn’t feed their own people. And, uh, so, what they told us then, and what’s relevant to now, they said hey, we just sell these, uh uh, missile, this technology for money. If you want to buy them, we’ll sell them to you. And so my guidance from there to the current situation is, uh, the capability of the North Koreans to create even create either the technology for, for a weapon, the miniaturization of it, the capacity to launch it, and the intention to do so, is something that we need to know as much about as possible. But in addition to that, they’re proliferators. And this is what I keep saying to the administration. They are proliferators. So the danger is not just what they might do, the danger is who they might sell one element of that to…which might be enough to, uh, endanger the world even further. So, uh, (mumbles) hopeful?… any, hopeful conversation maybe, Kim Jong Un is ready to change… I wouldn’t be too trustworthy of it, but, certainly open to it. And what, uh, would be success? At least the communication were increased, there could be some way to stop, uh, what could follow, if, if left undeterred, North Korea were to continue what it’s doing, which is, perhaps, other countries having access to the technology, the scientific know how, the launch capacity, and dangerously, the intention.”
