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.
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“In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other’s affairs, who “come out” together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.”
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)