Speeches of U.S. Ambassador, March 20, 2009 ...One of the first phrases I learned in Korean , I heard in Korean, when people talked about the US-Korea relationship, was 혈맹관계, “the relationship forged in blood.” I remember how moved I was by that, by the passion which people used in talking about it. Our relationship, as you all well know, goes further back even than that... (March 20, 2009, U.S. Ambassador in the Republic of Korea)
