Quotation of the day

"To handle the matter of the Korean people now is a call of the times that we can no longer postpone." (National Assembly Speaker says as he proposed yesterday the two Koreas to hold an inter-Korean parliamentary talks)

"May the truce village of Panmunjom no longer be used as a tourist spot (a writing carried on the visitors` book at Panmunjom)

"If President Kim, who is renown as a political engineer of the highest rank, can not solve the current crippling operation of the National Assembly, is he a mere political amateur (Floor leader Chung Chang-Hwa of the oppositon Grand National Party said, as he called for the President`s leading

to untangle the parliamentary gridlock.)

"President Lee Hoi-Chang of the Grand National Party`s attendance at national holiday events are zero, nil (Chang Chun-Hyung, vice speaker of the Millennium Democratic Party said, pointing out that President Lee did not attend the official ceremonies for last year`s Aug. 15 Liberation day, this year`s March 1st Independence Movement Day and Memorial Day).