This document outlines the mission tradition of the Korean churches for justice and peace, the reality of people in the divided Korea, a confession of the sins of division and hatred, and basic principles of the churches of Korea for national reunification. Based on these principles, the National Council of Churches of Korea urges the responsible authorities in the governments of both north and south to engage in healing dialogue to overcome the division and to wok continuously to develop a solidarity movement for peace and reunification.
This is a document written in 1972, following talks in Pyongyang and Seoul to discuss issues related to improving South-North relations and bringing the divided country together through three principles of unification.
The Korean Armistice, which called for a peace process and the withdrawl of all foreign forces from the Korean peninsula temporarily stopped the raging war in Korea in 1953; however, more than six decades later no peace treaty or agreement has replaced the Armistice Agreement. This document was prepared by a coalition of U.S. groups working for peace and reconciliation in Korea for the 2013 Peace Weekend in Washington, D.C.
Ramsay Liem, Boston College Silence is a common signature of profoundly traumatic events not the least of which are wars. For survivors of armed conflict, it attests to unspeakable violence and unresolved wounds. It is no wonder the Korean War is best known as the Forgotten War. This essay addresses both the silencing of memory and recent community-led efforts to resist forgetting.
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Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University The cost of the Korean War is commonly tallied in numbers: soldiers killed and wounded, civilians killed and wounded, villages destroyed, refugees evacuated, orphans created, families divided, napalm dropped, bombs exploded. Those numbers are worth repeating, for the sheer physical devastation of three years of war on a peninsula about the size of Idaho (roughly 85,000 square miles) is staggering.
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