The Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries is based in North Korea (DPRK). It is responsible for organizing a wide area of cultural events and to develop international relations between the DPRK and many countries of the world. Kim Jong Suk, is the chairwoman of the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.
When North Korean officials are on state visits, even when meeting foreign statesmen, leading officials from the Committee are also present.
Famous quotes containing the words committee, cultural, relations, foreign and/or countries:
“The absence on the panel of anyone who could become pregnant accidentally or discover her salary was five thousand dollars a year less than that of her male counterpart meant there was a hole in the consciousness of the committee that empathy, however welcome, could not entirely fill.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1953)
“The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
“Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what’s in them.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There seeps from heavily jowled or hawk-like foreign faces
The guttural sorrow of the refugees.”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
“It is a noble land that God has given us: a land that can feed and clothe the world; a land whose coastlines would enclose half the countries of Europe; a land set like a sentinel between the two imperial oceans of the globe.”
—Albert J. Beveridge (1862–1927)