"The recently created circumstance is making the situation in the region unstable and is also affecting the South-North relations,'" the South's chief envoy, Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok, said in a speech at a dinner with the North's delegation at the opening of four days of ministerial talks.
Jae-Soon Change, "Envoy: N. Korea destabilizing region
Discord among Asian nations follows missile tests", Houston Chronicle (July 11, 2006).
The North Korean Minister of Agriculture was berating a waiter at that particular instant and did not hear the remark. The South Korean Minister of Teenage Angst just rolled her eyes. And the maître d' told the delegations from Indonesia and East Timor that there were no tables available but if they wanted to eat in the bar, there was room enough for all of the ministers.
Meanwhile, outside the restaurant, Dave Matthews was quarrelling with his valet.
Matthews: "This is another fine mess, Lionel."
Valet: "I'm terribly sorry, I thought it sounded over the phone like they said that this was a restaurant for minstrels who squawk!"
