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 foreign countries, committee, cultural, relations, foreign and/or countries:
“Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“What a wise and good parent will desire for his own children a nation must desire for all children.”
—Consultative Committee On The Prima. Report of the Consultative Committee on the Primary School (HADOW)
“The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not “Am I really that oppressed?” but “Am I really that boring?””
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)
“When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one’s physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual. One is no longer regarded by the whole population as an unapproachable and uninteresting animal to be cheated and robbed.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)
“For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Writing fiction has become a priestly business in countries that have lost their faith.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)