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[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 ...

How I Came to Faith

How I Came to Faith During the tragic Korean War (6.25 War), I served as a frontline combat soldier in the 7th Division. When North Korea invaded, South Korea was entirely unprepared for war, so anyone available was sent to the frontlines as a combat soldier. Without the ability to defend ourselves, we were quickly pushed back as far as Daegu. At that point, UN forces intervened, and the tide of the war turned northward. Our troops fought on the frontlines, while UN forces were stationed behind us as the second line of defense. Since the war had started with no preparation, more soldiers died of starvation than from bullets. During a four-day advance without food, I collapsed in a field near Dongducheon, unable even to speak. UN forces, following behind, discovered me and transported me to the Army Hospital in Daegu, after which I was discharged from the military. Upon returning to my hometown, I resumed farming as before. My father and I built a small hut in the field and lived there,...