United States and North Korea: Singapore Summit Full Statement
President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un met in Singapore on June 12 for a much anticipated summit where the leaders pledged complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. However, denuclearization is one step in the final resolution to the division of the...
Connecting Dreams of National Transformation
Connecting Dreams In Korean Dream: A Vision for a Unified Korea, Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon explores the dreams of Genghis Khan and America at the time of its founding. In these explorations of two very distinct cultures, Dr. Moon identifies key principles that could...
Reconciliation needs a Vision for the Future
In the 1990’s, “reconciliation” was in the air. Countries with different histories and cultures saw the process that South Africa went through in its post-apartheid period and saw their own need to do the same. Each nation took up interpretation of reconciliation in...
Muslim and Christian Youth Build Peace in Interfaith Talks
Passion, energy, and dreams animate youth to see beyond their current realities. What exists today doesn’t have to exist tomorrow. Likewise, what doesn’t exist today can begin to be built tomorrow. In a challenge to the current reality of rising religious intolerance...
What do we really want for Korea?
What do we really want for Korea? It's easy to know what we don't want: War, human rights violations, corruption, high suicide rates, nuclear weapons… But we can't live and build on "no"s alone. The end to the Korean war is not an end so much as a start. And this...
Economists Join the Discussion on Korean Reunification
Economists and businessmen are joining the discussion on Korean reunification. Following the third Inter-Korean Summit and a possible meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, prospects of peace and security in Northeast Asia...
Memorial Day: Honoring Patriots Who Serve the World
Originally posted on May 24, 2018. Updated on May 21, 2020. In the United States, every last Monday in May we commemorate Memorial Day. On this day, we honor the men and women who gave their lives in service to the country and her founding ideals. Memorial Day was...
Reconciliation and Korean Reunification: Lessons from Lincoln’s Leadership
As the road to reconciliation and reunification of the Korean people inevitably twists and turns, it becomes instructive to look at other models of division and...
Korean War Veterans’ Hopes for Reunification
The historic meeting between sitting U.S. president, Donald Trump and North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, has run into complications. A few days after the announcement that the meeting would take place on June 12 in Singapore, a North Korean official threatened to...
One Korea: Truth and Reconciliation
On the Korean peninsula, we are seeing a dramatic spiritual process at play. While there are many who wish to frame the situation in purely political, economic or secular terms, the truth is that Korea is facing a test of the human spirit. There is a struggle for the...
Finding the Dreamers: Youth for Korean Reunification
“Our hands are full,” a 25-year-old South Korean student told TIME magazine when asked about the Inter-Korean Summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and South Korean president Moon Jae-In. TIME magazine interviewed South Korean young people after the talks for...
One Korea Global Campaign Song Played at the Inter-Korea Summit
Following the historic Inter-Korea Summit where South Korea President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared the end of the Korean War, global attention was brought to the One Korea Global Campaign when its song “One Dream One Korea” played during...