{"id":42953,"date":"2026-01-04T05:04:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homeland-news.net\/?p=42953"},"modified":"2026-01-04T05:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:10:09","slug":"press-release-as-the-korean-border-falls-silent-global-peace-ngo-calls-for-reopening-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homeland-news.net\/?p=42953","title":{"rendered":"PRESS RELEASE  As the Korean Border Falls Silent, Global Peace NGO Calls for Reopening the"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Chairman-Man-Hee Lee\">Chairman-Man-Hee Lee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Korea &#8211; New York -Homeland News<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Human Path Between North and South<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Washington, D.C., \u00a0&#8212; As the border between North and South Korea grows increasingly<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">silent and new laws restrict civil action related to inter-Korean engagement, an international peace organization<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">is urging political leaders to confront the deeper human cost of division and to reopen pathways for peaceful<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">exchange between people long separated by history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">HWPL, a global civilian peace organization in consultative status at the United Nations, released a renewed call<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">this week for reconciliation and people-centered peace on the Korean Peninsula. The appeal draws on the heart<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">and experience of HWPL\u2019s founder Lee Man-Hee, a former frontline combat soldier during the Korean War who<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">witnessed firsthand the consequences of a divided nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201cIs dividing the nation and its people, which our ancestors handed down to us, into two (north and south) done<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">for the sake of the nation and its people? Isn\u2019t it to ruin and to destroy the nation and its people? Dividing the<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">nation and its people that our ancestors handed down into two and having them kill each other in wars is not<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">true politics\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201d Says HWPL\u2019s Chairman Lee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Recent reporting has highlighted an unprecedented quiet along the Demilitarized Zone, with military<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">loudspeakers silenced and cross-border messaging curtailed. At the same time, South Korea has passed<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">legislation granting police authority to halt civilian leafleting activities directed toward the North, reigniting<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">debate over freedom of expression, security, and the rights of civilians to participate in peacebuilding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">HWPL feels that these developments should prompt a broader international conversation not only about<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">security, but about humanity, freedom, and reconciliation. HWPL\u2019s Chairman shared further: \u201cThe North and<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">South used to live as one nation and one people in the same national land. The path, which the outside powers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">have blocked, must be opened even one day sooner and have people freely come and go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201d He urged that this<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">was the \u201cshortcut to reunification.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">HWPL was founded by its chairman after he served as a combat soldier during the Korean War, where he<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">witnessed many promising young people from both the North and South lose their lives fighting in the<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Independence Army. Following the war, he dedicated his life to peace work, eventually establishing HWPL as a<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">global movement promoting peace, cessation of war, and international law, dialogue, and civic engagement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Over the past decades, HWPL has conducted peace missions in more than 30 countries, convened heads of<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">state, legal experts, and civil society leaders, and collected written commitments from political leaders a\ufb03rming<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">support for global peace initiatives. The organization also advocates for the Declaration of Peace and Cessation<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">of War (DPCW), a proposed international legal framework aimed at preventing armed conflict and protecting<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">human dignity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Changing a world of war and conflict into a world of peace is a mission in which all can participate &#8211; HWPL, its<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">partners, and everyone else around the globe. As HWPL\u2019s Chairman Lee has said,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201c<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8230;we must reflect on history\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">and \u201c<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8230;become messengers of peace and leave a lasting legacy of peace for future generations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chairman-Man-Hee Lee &nbsp; Korea &#8211; New York -Homeland News Human Path Between North and South Washington, D.C., \u00a0&#8212; As the border between North and South Korea grows increasingly silent and new laws restrict civil action related to inter-Korean engagement, an international peace organization is urging political leaders to confront the deeper human cost of division &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.5 - 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