"If it weren`t for this pair of sneakers, we would ...

"If it weren`t for this pair of sneakers, we would have stayed together." (Suh Soon-Hwa, clutching a pair of sneakers she prepared as a gift for her North Korean son, who will visit Seoul for the inter-Korean reunion of divided families. Suh was separated from her son during the Jan 4th Retreat, after he went back home to retrieve a pair of shoes he had forgotten.)

"Every gesture has been carefully practiced and each printed word carefully thought out." (The chief of the Walker Hill Hotel`s marketing division on preparations for the North Korean visitors coming to meet their family members.)

"It is fortunate that my name was even mentioned." (Millennium Democratic Party Representative Chung Dae-Chul, in response to a question on his candidacy during the Korean Democratic Party Convention, explaining that he was nearly swept away by a fierce storm, imprisoned, and even targeted by a citizens` movement to prevent him from running for office)