[2025-12-12] The Nation and People Inherited from Our Ancestors

The Nation and People Inherited from Our Ancestors

 

Is dividing the nation and people inherited from our ancestors into two—North and South—truly for the sake of the nation and its people? Is this not rather an act of destruction and ruin against the nation and its people? Dividing the nation and people handed down by our ancestors and killing one another through war is not true politics. It is the work of the devil. Even after seeing with your own eyes and hearing with your own ears the reality that our nation and people are suffering today, do you still not understand? Our ancestors in heaven are watching. The blood of the righteous who were shed for the nation and its people—the blood of the independence fighters—cries out in sorrow. Politicians, repent.

 

The North and the South have lived as one nation and one people on the same land. The roads blocked by foreign powers must be opened as soon as possible so that people can travel freely between the two. Allowing the same people who once lived as one nation to freely visit one another is the most urgent task for reunification. Blocking interaction among one’s own people is an act that makes one an enemy of the nation. Does North Korea not understand this?

 

I personally fought as a frontline combat soldier during the Korean War. At that time, I witnessed many young men in the prime of their lives from both the North and the South lose their lives. After being discharged from the military, I began a life of faith and came to work for peace, following the example of Jesus. As a result, I founded HWPL, a global civilian peace organization, and became a messenger of peace. I traveled around the world 32 times, calling for an end to war and peace for humanity. In doing so, I met with presidents and prime ministers of various countries and obtained their signatures pledging to work together for the cessation of wars around the world. The evidence proving these facts is still in my possession today (at the Peace Training Center in Goseong-ri, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi Province).

 

Have you not seen this? Have you not heard this? Why must people of the same nation fight and kill one another? Why must people of the same nation, who once lived as one country, be prevented from even traveling to see one another? Heaven and earth will witness this and cry out in lamentation. I believe that the shortest path to reunification is for politicians to reflect on past history with repentance and to open the divided roads so that people of the same nation may freely visit one another.