In November of 1991, in a speech before the Asia Society in New York, Bush cited North Korea, Burma, and China as three countries resisting the "global trend" of political pluralism, and also made accusations of proliferating dangerous weaponry.
一九九一年底，布希訪問亞洲，行前在紐約發表演講，指出「包括北韓、實施社會主義專制的緬甸，以及中國，這些政權頑抗政治多元化的世界潮流，而且恣意散播危險的武器」。