Quotations of the day

Further despair would be atrocious. (A netizen visiting the web site of Cheong Wa Dae on Sunday expressing his hope for more good things to happen to encourage and benefit the people in the coming year.)

After a cold winter spring will come with trees putting forth leaves and flowers blooming. (A donga. com netizen on Sunday calling on the fellow citizens to keep hoping for the best in these bad times.)

Rep. Bae Ki-Sun who is a loyalist to President Kim and belongs to the Tongkyo-dong faction joined the United Liberal Democrats (ULD) to play the role of governor general dispatched by Cheong Wa Dae.(Grand National Party spokesman Kwon Chul-Hyeon on Saturday commenting on three Millennium Democratic Party members of the National Assembly who joined the ULD)

It is a sacrifice made as a last resort for the worthy cause of achieving stability of the political arena.(Ruling Millennium Democratic Party chairman Kim Joong-Kwon on Saturday giving his view on three lawmakers of his party joining the ULD all of a sudden.)

On the strength of wholehearted unity we will strive to make the 21st century an infinitely glorious century of Korea and a century of great leader Kim Jong-Il.(Radio Pyongyang of North Korea on Saturday.)