#korean

North Korea is a famine state. In the fields, you can see people picking up loose grains of rice and kernels of corn, gleaning every scrap. They look pinched and exhausted. In the few, dingy restaurants in the city, and even in the few modern hotels, you can read the Pyongyang Times through the soup, or the tea, or the coffee. Morsels of inexplicable fat or gristle are served as 'duck.' One evening I gave in and tried a bowl of dog stew, which at least tasted hearty and spicy—they wouldn't tell me the breed—but then found my appetite crucially diminished by the realization that I hadn't seen a domestic animal, not even the merest cat, in the whole time I was there. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dog-meat #dogs #famine #hotels #korean-cuisine

If North Korea is allowed to maintain its nuclear weapons programs, other nations may well follow suit and some may buy such weapons from the North Koreans. ↗

— Robert F. Ellsworth

#buy #follow #korea #koreans #maintain

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dogs #humour #korean-cuisine #north-korea #pyongyang

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done. ↗

— John Conyers

#am #anyone #body #done #i

My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard. He taught me to love my country, and serve my country. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#become #biggest #could #country #father

National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#fore #koreans #me #national #partition

My sister is Korean and my parents adopted her about three years before I was born and that is how I grew up. ↗

— Katherine Heigl

#adopted #before #born #grew #her

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#conflict #country #gulf #gulf war #korean

Because of the Korean free trade agreement, South Koreans who want Oregon blueberries are gonna see their prices go down because we will be getting rid of a 45 percent tariff on this Oregon product. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#because #down #free #free trade #getting

40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#growth #korean #north #percent #stunted