[News Is Eyes: Korean Weekly Magazine]

“Rev. Moon, Construction of a DMZ Peace Park”…The Future Perspective from 14 Years Ago

“More and more regions are fighting over their national boundaries, leading to immense loss of human life all over the world and war expenses and peace maintenance costs up to billions of dollars. So much energy and so many resources are being consumed by these conflicts.”

This is the diagnosis of Rev. Sun Myung Moon (1920-2012), Founder of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. At the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace Assembly on August 18^th, 2000 in Manhattan, New York at the UN Headquarters, Rev. Moon proposed that the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea should be transformed into a peace park.

“I propose that the UN, representing all nations and interreligious leaders can work together in one accord to create a peaceful world between our national borders. The rivers, mountains, plains and the ocean can absorb the national borders and conflict zones; thus, creating a peaceful world.”