Since Reagan’s time, North Korea (not to mention Iran) has continued her sponsorship of terrorism -- including acts against South Korea, sales of missiles to Libya and Syria, and harboring Japanese Red Army terrorists -- and is also proliferating weapons of mass destruction.
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Reagan also warned about state sponsorship of terrorism. "Most of the terrorists who are kidnapping and murdering American citizens and attacking American installations are being trained, financed, and directly or indirectly controlled by a core group of radical and totalitarian governments -- a new, international version of Murder Incorporated. And all of these states are united by one, simple, criminal phenomenon -- their fanatical hatred of the United States, our people, our way of life, our international stature ... their real goal is to expel America from the world. And that is the reason these terrorist nations are arming, training and supporting attacks against this nation. And that is why we can be clear on one point: These terrorist states are now engaged in a of war against the Government and people of the United States. And under international law, any state which is the victim of acts of war has the right to defend itself."
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"A number of times ... foreign tyrants, warlords and totalitarian dictators have misinterpreted the well-known likeability, patience and generosity of the American people as signs of weakness or even decadence ... But ... when the emotions of the American people are aroused, when their patriotism and their anger are triggered, there are no limits to their national valor nor their consuming passion to protect this nation’s cherished tradition of freedom ... (American) history (is) littered with the wreckage of regimes who made the mistake of underestimating the vigor and will of the American people ... So, the American people are not ... going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we’re especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, loony tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich."
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