Women Must Be Central to Negotiating the US-Korea Peace Process
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Women peacemakers march in Paju, South Korea, after crossing the demilitarized zone on May 24, 2015, for the International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament.STEPHEN WUNROW
BY: Christine Ahn,
When the meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un ended abruptly in Hanoi two weeks ago, my heart sank. As a Korean-American, I have been working for nearly two decades to end the Korean War, which has kept Koreans living under the constant threat of war and devastated three generations of Korean families. I had traveled to Hanoi with a delegation of women peacebuilders to celebrate what many Korea experts anticipated — that the two leaders would declare an end to the Korean War.
Instead, talks collapsed and now the Trump administr...