By Kevin Huh for Global Peace Foundation On the 26th of February 2019, I attended the Global Peace Convention 2019, which included sessions on Youth Partnerships for Peace, Security and Development and Youth Initiatives for Reunification. When we talk about...
The following story by a 26-year-old citizen of the United States shares her experience at South Korea’s Demilitarized Zone and an international perspective on a hope for peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. The four kilometers of no-mans-land running along...
As a plane took off for South Korea, Allison Yheraldin gazed out the tiny window to see her beautiful homeland of Peru grow smaller in the distance with the clouds eventually enshrouding the city below. She was traveling halfway across the world as a foreign exchange...
A young girl embarked on a risky and arduous journey before finally arriving safely at Hanawon, a South Korean support center for the resettlement of North Korean refugees. After three months of preparing herself for civilian life, she would venture out into an...
A North Korean soldier worked at the demilitarized zone (DMZ), the border separating North and South Korea, for nine years before he made the life-changing decision to escape to the South in 1979. The journey would be incredibly dangerous with a small chance of...
“I felt peace with my family yesterday, but today I felt the pain of division. I hope that South and North Korea will reunite as soon as possible and that the Koreans scattered around the world like us can regain their identity as Koreans.” One of the participants in...
