UN General Assembly
1950

49. Time and time again all concerned were urged to come together to discuss and agree upon the best solution for everyone. A United Nations commission, designed for just that purpose, was established by the General Assembly and has constantly and all the time been available in Korea to both sides for discussion and mediation. To those, if any there be, who still hanker after mediation, conciliation, discussion, I say that all these have been offered and urged during all the years that this dispute has existed. They have consistently and contemptuously been refused, and at this point there is no case whatever to be made for conciliation now that open and armed aggression has occurred. Discussion was the last thing that one side wanted. Aggression and oppression were the objectives of these people. And what is the use of talking of reason to people who will not listen to reason but who worship only power?