Former President Barack Obama recently talked about his efforts to create a force of young people who will work to a make a difference in the world.
Former President Barack Obama recently talked about his efforts to create a force of young people who will work to a make a difference in the world, reports the Washington Examiner. At a Sunday conference in Japan, he talked about the Obama Foundation's plan to invigorate the world's youth.
"If I could do that effectively, then I would create a hundred or a thousand or a million young Barack Obamas or Michelle Obamas. Or, the next group of people who could take that baton in that relay race that is human progress," he noted. Obama went on to commend the high school students who participated in Saturday's 'March for Our Lives' and are leading the effort for gun safety. "A lot of our problems are caused by old men. No offense, men, who are old," Obama also noted. The former president addressed matters involving Japan's neighbor North Korea as well, reports the Associated Press. "North Korea is an example of a country that is so far out of the international norms and so disconnected with the rest of the world," Obama said.
In contrast, he spoke about the multilateral sanctions that helped pressure Iran into restricting its nuclear program, telling the audience, "Eventually Iran said to itself, 'You know, we will be better off if we're able to trade, engage in commerce…' and so there was a way of getting leverage on Iran."
"Unfortunately, in the case of North Korea, they have so little commerce, they have so little trade with other countries, they travel so little, that it's so restrictive, that, in some ways, sometimes that makes them less subject to these kinds of negotiations," Obama added.
