Blogs
New Opportunities in a United Korea (Korea Insights #2)
Global Peace Foundation works with our distinguished partners around the world to support the reunification of the Korean peninsula. We believe that peace and prosperity within the Korean peninsula and East Asia are not secured by unification alone, but will be...
Interview with a North Korean (Korea Insights #1)
Global Peace Foundation works with our distinguished partners around the world to support the reunification of the Korean peninsula. We believe that peace and prosperity within the Korean peninsula and East Asia are not secured by unification alone, but will be...
Paths to Freedom and Human Rights in North Korea
March 4, SEATTLE—A diverse crowd packed a classroom at the University of Washington to listen to a powerful story by a woman who survived forty-three years in North Korea. Eiko Kawasaki is a second-generation Korean living in Japan, who was defected from the regime,...
Cultivating Civic Responsibility in Advancing a Unified Korea
Hundreds of Korean reunification activists, including North and South Koreans, gathered in Busan and Seoul in October 2019 for multiple Action for Korea United (AKU) leadership training programs that aimed to align reunification efforts to a shared vision...
The Truth Behind North Korea’s Diasporic Returns Project is Yet Another Reason for Korean Reunification
To some, the reunification of the Korean peninsula may seem like a slow, incremental process that will occur in the distant future. But to others, particularly those that have experienced living in North Korea—deprived of fundamental human rights and freedoms—Korean...
Ban Jae-chul Searching for the Spirit of the March 1st Movement (Series: Leaders of One Dream One Korea #3)
By Jinhoon Lee Welcome to the blog series, “Leaders of One Dream One Korea,” where the author introduces various leaders at the forefront of the movement toward Korean unification. This 3rd part of the series features Ban Jae-chul. Continue reading to discover...
Advancing One Korea and My Piece in the Greater Peace
Koreans at home and abroad as well as members of the international community are sharing in the dream for a free, independent and united Korea. MMY is a Japanese American college student who is part of the One Korea Global Campaign. MMY’s reflection underscores the...
Finding Inner Passion for Korean Reunification: Reflections from Youth Volunteers
By Keiko SeinoKorean and international volunteers bustled around the Plaza Hotel and the Kintex Convention Center in Seoul for the One Korea Forum and the Action for Korea United (AKU) Festival on August 14th and 15th respectively, with the latter event...
(Series: Leaders of One Dream One Korea #2) Kim Gu
By Jinhoon LeeWelcome to the blog series, “Leaders of One Dream One Korea,” where the author introduces various leaders of the past and present who are at the forefront of efforts being made toward Korean unification. This second edition of the series...
Seoul Leaders Workshop Aims to Build Consensus for Korean Reunification
By Keiko SeinoAs the 2019 bilateral and multilateral talks between the United States and the two Koreas have shown little progress to date, reunification activists continue to push the envelope for the peninsula based on the Korean Dream, a vision...