#korean

When he reached the last hole he saw, far to the west, a series of rockets bloom in the sky. He watched their green and yellow and red petals arch across the horizon, and fade into the gloom of the earth. It was very beautiful, but he recognized them for Chinese rockets. ↗

— Pat Frank

#warfare #beauty

Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices. ↗

— An Na

#assimilation #education #gender-equality #korean #education

When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go. ↗

— Kim Sowol

#heartache #heartbreak #korean-poetry #letting-go #love

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc. ↗

— Hans Blix

#anyone #blown #borders #east #etc

Some day, somebody is going to have to start talking about what happens to us all a decade from now if we let these North Koreans and the Iranians go forward with their nuclear weapons program. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#day #decade #forward #go #going

The point is, once they have a missile that can hit the United States, we are now back in the kind of game we used to worry about with the Soviet Union, only the Soviet Union was more mature about this whole thing than I think the North Koreans will be. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#back #game #hit #i #i think

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman. ↗

— David Bowie

#i #image #korean #many #ny times

I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War. ↗

— Daniel J. Evans

#called #during #got #i #into

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government. ↗

— Kim Dae Jung

#both #cooperation #develop #exchange #government

Our nation must manage significant national security challenges over the next several years. We are already facing a potential conflict with Iraq, new challenges on the Korean peninsula, and key decisions in the president's plans to transform the military. ↗

— Duncan Hunter

#challenges #conflict #decisions #facing #iraq