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Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) from the South Korea side
Women Cross DMZ (WCDMZ) is a non-profit organization mobilizing women around the world to promote peace in Korea, as well as denuclearization and demilitarization of the Korean Peninsula. Founded in 2014 by Christine Ahn, a Korean American peace activist, the advocacy and education organization of feminists, lawyers and peace activists calls for a formal end to the Korean War and the replacement of the armistice agreement with a peace agreement. In 2015, WCDMZ made international headlines when it organized a historic crossing of the heavily armed De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North Korea from South Korea at the 38th parallel.[1]
In 2015, WCDMZ gained international recognition by organizing a historic crossing of the De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) that separates North Korea from South Korea. Thirty women—including two Nobel Peace laureates and feminist icon Gloria Steinem—walked arm-in-arm with 10,000 Korean women on both sides of the DMZ, on the wide boulevards of Pyongyang and the cobblestone streets of Kaesong, and along the barbed-wire fence in Paju. With this historic act we called for three things: an end to the Korean War, the reunification of separated families, and women’s involvement at all levels of the peacebuilding process.
Since then, WCDMZ has continued to educate, advocate, and organize for an end to the Korean War. They have helped catalyze new collaborations such as the U.S.-based Korea Peace Network; have spoken to college audiences, community groups, and faith-based organizations; and helped mobilize a broad grassroots network of local, national and international peace organizations. They have also coordinated high-profile letter campaigns, strengthened relations with North Korean and South Korean women’s groups, and led an intervention of feminist peace activists in Vancouver to urge foreign ministers from 20 nations to prepare the table for peace talks. For seven consecutive years, WCDMZ has held events at the UN Commission on the Status of Women to highlight the urgent need for women’s inclusion in the Korea peace process, as called for by the landmark UN Security Council resolution on women, peace, and security. In March 2019, WCDMZ joined with the Nobel Women’s Initiative, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and the Korean Women’s Movement for Peace to launch the global campaign Korea Peace Now! Women Mobilizing to End the War.
^Sang-Hun, Choe (2015-05-24). "Peace Activists Cross Demilitarized Zone Separating Koreas". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-07-08.
WomenCrossDMZ (WCDMZ) is a non-profit organization mobilizing women around the world to promote peace in Korea, as well as denuclearization and demilitarization...
Executive Director of WomenCrossDMZ, an organization of women advocating for an end to the Korean War. In 2015, she led 30 international women peacemakers across...
WomenCross Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) on Korean Peninsula for Peace". PeaceWomen. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2021. "June 2015 E-News: Women Cross...
international women peacebuilders to cross the 2-mile wide De-Militarized Zone (DMZ) separating North and South Korea in an act of solidarity with Korean women and...
impacts. Andrea Marra Korean American National Coordinating Council WomenCrossDMZ ndd. "About". Nodutdol. Retrieved 2021-05-22. "The Need to Work for...
Japanese). Retrieved 2017-07-29. "Women for Genuine Security". www.genuinesecurity.org. Retrieved 2017-07-29. "WomenCrossDMZ | Ending The Korean War, Reuniting...
from his base and crossed the DMZ into North Korea. Abshier was the first to defect. Also in May 1962, Cpl. Jerry Parrish crossed the DMZ into North Korea...
Village or Panmunjom) is the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) where North and South Korean forces stand face-to-face. The JSA is used...
equipment dating back from the 1970s was still in use. Members of the NGO WomenCrossDMZ were told on their visit to the hospital that international sanctions...
Corps combat base. It was located near the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) about 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from North Vietnam in Gio Linh District, Quảng...
Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). This new border, reflecting the territory held by each side at the end of the war, crossed the 38th parallel diagonally...
had separately defected, during 1962, when they crossed the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Parrish crossed in 1963.[when?][citation needed] Sergeant Charles...
off course by a tornado and crash-lands in the North Korean portion of the DMZ. Ri Jeong-hyeok (Hyun Bin), a member of the North Korean elite and a captain...
2017-11-27. "Gloria Steinem and peace activists cross the DMZ between North and South Korea". Women in the World in Association with The New York Times...
review of all of the sensors along the DMZ border. In 2022, he crossed back into North Korea, again via the DMZ. North Koreans in South Korea South Korean...
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against North Korea and the People's Republic of China. The Swedish Red Cross Field Hospital was established by the Swedish mission sent to Korea to deal...
post in South Korea in May 1962 when he crept away from his base and crossed the DMZ into North Korea. He was, for three months, the only American in the...
The Trump Organization, says, "Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets, say, in Dubai, and certainly with our project...
North Korea. From 1966 to 1969, many cross-border incursions took place in what has been referred to as the Korean DMZ Conflict or Second Korean War. In...
000. Military defections across the heavily fortified demilitarized zone (DMZ) are few in number, with only 20 defectors since 1996. In 1962, the government...
the country, paralleling the DMZ of the Korean Peninsula. The position of the Chasm could also correspond with the Cross Florida Barge Canal, which, similar...
submitted new terms, which included the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) as the recognized national border, leading to a breakdown in negotiations...
Egged), killing 12 Egyptian soldiers. On 2 November, al Sabha, close to the DMZ, was attacked, in Operation Volcano (Mivtza Ha Ga'ash), killing 81 Egyptian...
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