Text Fwd: 137 religious leaders call for inter-Korean dialogue

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Elder representatives of the religious sector and civic society sit behind a banner that reads “There must not be any more war on the peninsula” during a press conference at the Korea Press Foundation, Dec. 29. (Photo by Shin So-young)

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137 religious leaders call for inter-Korean dialogue
Criticizing the Lee administration’s current policy, leaders said policy should aim at preventing war and establishing peace
Lee Je-hoon, Staff Writer
Posted on : Dec.30,2010 16:05 KST

A total of 137 elders and leaders from the country’s six main religious groups - Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism, Won-Buddhism, Cheondoism, and Sungkyunkwan - along with civil society issued an appeal Wednesday urging efforts between North Korea and South Korea to “prevent war and establish peace on the Korean Peninsula.”

“There must not be any more war on the peninsula,” the appeal stated.

At a press conference Wednesday afternoon at the Korea Press Foundation in Seoul’s Jung District, the leaders called for a halt to all aggressive military actions and provocative statements and behavior between North Korea and South Korea and the formulation of basic measures to establish a firm national security posture and peace on the Korean Peninsula.

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