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CWS/NCC parley seeks "road map" for Korea peace
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June 13, 2003

CWS/NCC parley seeks "road map" for Korea peace

by Jerry L. Van Marter

LOUISVILLE - With Asian and global stability increasingly threatened by a
nuclear stand-off in North Korea, Church World Service and the National
Council of Churches have put together a "Korean Roadmap" for peace and
prosperity on the Korean peninsula.
	
The consultation, scheduled for June 16-18 in Washington, will bring together
U.S. and Korean church leaders, experts from humanitarian agencies and the
United Nations and academicians. The Presbyterian Church (USA) will be
represented at the consultation by the Rev. Insik Kim, coordinator for East
Asia and the Pacific in the Worldwide Ministries Division. Kim is a native of
North Korea.
	
According to NCC news director Carol Fouke, "it is expected that consultation
participants will renounce military options and call for stepping up of
diplomacy and humanitarian aid." Their recommendations will be shared with
Congress, the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon.      
	
In addition to Kim, consultation speakers will include Peggy Billings, a
Methodist missionary in Korea from 1953 to 1963; Young I. Chun, president of
the International Strategies and Reconciliation Foundation (ISR), a think
tank and relief and development organization seeking to restore
reconciliation in conflict regions with current focus on the Korean
peninsula; Gail V. Coulson, executive secretary for Asia Pacific region in
mission contexts and relationships of the General Board of Global Ministries
of the United Methodist Church; Robert Edgar, NCC general secretary; Selig S.
Harrison, senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars and Director of the Asia Program at the Center for International
Policy, who has specialized in South Asia and East Asia for 50 years. 
	
Also, Victor Hsu, a native of Taiwan who serves as senior advisor to the
executive director of Church World Service and who was the first convener of
the Steering Committee of the Food Aid Liaison Unit of the World Food Program
Country Office in North Korea; Randall Ireson, coordinator of the American
Friends Service Committee agriculture assistance program in North Korea;
Karin Lee, senior associate for the East Asia Policy Education Project of the
Friends Committee on National Legislation; Heidi Linton, executive director
of the Christian Friends of Korea; Betsy Headrick McCrae, program director
for East Asia for the Mennonite Central Committee; John L. McCullough, CWS
executive director.
	
And, K.A. Namkung, an independent consultant providing advisory services to
government agencies, businesses and non-governmental organizations in East
Asia; 
The Rev. Jong-Wha Park, a member of the Central Committee of the World
Council of Churches, of the Commission of Peace and Reunification, NCC-Korea,
and of the Presidential Advisory Council on Reunification in Korea and former
general secretary of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea;
Maurice F. Strong, special advisor to the secretary general of the United
Nations on humanitarian and development efforts in Korea. 

Editor's note: The Presbyterian News Service will publish Carol Fouke's
reports from the consultation. - Jerry L. Van Marter

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