The DPR Korea Figure Skating Championships is a figure skating competition held annually to crown the national champions of North Korea (officially called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea). Figure skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
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“The battle of the North Atlantic is a grim business, and it isn’t going to be won by charm and personality.”
—Edmund H. North, British screenwriter, and Lewis Gilbert. First Sea Lord (Laurence Naismith)
“And they lie like wedges,
Thick end to thin end and thin end to thick end,
And are a figure of the way the strong
Of mind and strong of arm should fit together,
One thick where one is thin and vice versa.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)