Quotations of the day

Isn't it the public perception that no series of probes by the prosecution authorities, whether they are repeated twice or 100 times, will get anywhere?

(Grand National Party secretary general Kim Ki-Bae on Sept. 23, renewing the party's call for an investigation by a special prosecutor into the Hanvit Bank loan scandal.)

This out-of-the-way rural village I come from does not seem to have changed much in the last 56 years because it has remained difficult to access all this time. I am glad to find it as it was.(Guk Bok-Gwon, a Korean resident in Japan who belongs to the Chochongnyon (pro-Pyongyang Chongryon federation), Saturday, during his homecoming trip to Wonbong village, Jeongjok-dong, Iksan-si, North Jolla Province.)