Category: Korean Sharing Movement
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Peacemaking Through Collaboration Between Christians in North Korea and South Korea

Webinar from the Korea Peace Now Grassroots Network Inter-Faith Caucus about inter-Korean ecumenical dialogues, called the Tozanso Process, featuring Kurt Esslinger, Charles Ryu, and Sulkiro Song.
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Reflections on the Myth of Korea’s “Single-Ethnic Nation”

Professor Min-Ah Cho suggests that rather than focus on Korean ‘minjok,’ stories of ethnic-Koreans from the North and foreign migrants living along the margins of South Korean society must be told. Their experiences should be an important resource as we envision the future of the Korean peninsula.
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Is the legal system on the Korean peninsula helping or hindering inter-Korean engagement?

Legal barriers to inter-Korean engagement are intensifying in both North and South Korea, causing Attorney Ham Bo-hyun to question if the legal structures are actually achieving the goals for which they were designed.
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The military alliances forming in Northeast Asia are alarming, and Korean leaders are picking sides against each other. What’s the path forward for reconciliation of the Korean people?

As South Korea’s leaders push it into a trilateral military partnership with the United States and Japan, North Korea’s leadership has signed a treaty with Russia. How can we back away from the brink of catastrophic war?
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This summer marked 74 years of the un-ended Korean War. How will we get to peace?

Perhaps the most significant reason we cannot be happy about the Korean War Armistice Day is that we understand the ceasefire was just a pause in the war, indicating that peace has not yet come. The war is unended. Peace has yet to arrive. 74 years later, there is still no peace to celebrate…
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Have you heard about the trash balloons floating into South Korea? Here’s some context and an invitation to try a new way of thinking.

The director of the Catholic Institute for Northeast Asia Peace weighs in on the crisis along the North and South Korean border, focusing on how the conflict over propaganda leafleting in May risks escalating further.
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International Korea Peace Symposium: Moving from Armistice to Peace

This year marks the 70th Anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. But the danger of war on the Korean Peninsula is unprecedentedly high. This symposium revisits the unfinished Korean War to find hope for peace again.
