#north

As Governor of North Carolina for two terms, I made improving education a top priority. ↗

— Michael F. Easley

#education #governor #i #improving #made

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#began #classical #competing #discovered #i

I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it. ↗

— Robert M. Gates

#available #based #cia #concerns #contacts

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity. ↗

— Nicholas D. Kristof

#armed #bands #burning #central #children

China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denuclearization of the peninsula in a peaceful way through dialogue and consultation to maintain peace and stability of the peninsula and Northeast Asia. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#asia #attention #china #consultation #deal

Well, I'm a huge fan of Ryan Adams, who's from North Carolina. And he's beginning to break really quite big. ↗

— Elton John

#beginning #big #break #carolina #fan

The death of dictator Kim Jong-Il has cast all eyes on North Korea, a country without literature or freedom or truth. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#country #death #dictator #eyes #freedom

But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#certain #characters #dictated #farmer #fisherman

The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#ate #bark #bombarded #day #elite

I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#discover #foreigners #genuine #had #highly