Dear ladies and gentlemen, and representatives of the Youth Federation for World Peace (YFWP) in Korea. I am delighted to have this general meeting of the YFWP Korean chapter’s national representatives with so many honorable guests who long for world peace and Korea’s reunification.
As the president of the Women’s Federation for World Peace, I deeply appreciate your efforts to establish the Korean chapter on the national level with sincere heart and effort. I am sure that your hard work is the driving force for YFWP to establish local chapters throughout Korea and march forward in such a short period.
Dear representatives from all over Korea: As you know well, humanity and the world are at a turning point, about to enter the 21st century. Shall we end the age of division and struggle and construct a new world of peace, prosperity, and unification, or shall we continue the miserable history of division, struggle, and war? It surely is a serious problem.
So many concerns occur throughout the world, including struggles between nations, races, religions, ranks, and sexes. The deterioration of ethics, family breakdown, drug concerns, AIDS, starvation, and disease all obstruct the realization of the human ideal of a true world of peace and unification.
This is because human beings at the beginning of the world lost God’s love. God wanted the first human ancestors, Adam and Eve, to become the ideal couple and ideal parents, centered on God’s true love, and establish the ideal family through which human beings would be able to realize the ideal race, nation, and world.
Unfortunately, because our human ancestors, Adam and Eve, betrayed God and His ideal, human history has taken a tragic course. When people denied God and lost the absolute value centering on God, they fell to the bottom of hell in greed, struggle, and confusion.
However, people’s original nature has continually pushed them to seek a better world, and God has worked His providence to save fallen mankind through numerous seers, prophets, and religions. But sadly, mankind has been wandering about, having lost its way, with no central figure to lead it out of this suffering world of crime and sin. Today, we must be able to jointly present a hopeful new vision of the 21st Century to mankind.
Dear representatives of YFWP: You are in the leading position to give hope to this world. Historically speaking, youth has been the hopeful light in difficult times; young people are the pioneers and forerunners who will create a new history.
Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon
Now YFWP has the historical mission of leading and encouraging mankind’s efforts to end the unhappy human history and to construct a new century abounding in peace and happiness. We should promote a new viewpoint of values and create a social system that can save mankind, recognizing that the dominant ideologies and systems have not been able to do so. Moreover, we should develop a campaign to construct a true family based on true love and ethical principles.
We are called to construct a world of true peace and unification for the coming 21st Century. We will promote a peace campaign based on the ideology of the great human family; embracing all mankind as brothers and sisters in one family, under Godism and head wing thought.
The autonomous rights of all races and nations must not be violated for any reason, and all people must be recognized as having equal membership in the international society. However, the major powers have been trampling on the lesser powers here and there throughout this world. Such things must necessarily be corrected to construct the peaceful global community of the 21st Century.
Therefore, we will develop a campaign of peace and unification, opposing any kind of invasion or war. Moreover, we shall encourage the unification of nations and races, ending the present state of suffering and division.
Dear representatives: YFWP will foster world peace by accelerating the pioneering role of youth for world peace, under the cooperation of FWP, IRFWP, WFWP, etc.
Furthermore, we will pour all our strength into the unification of the Korean peninsula, our fatherland, which is the only remaining divided country on this globe.
Furthermore, we will develop the mission of youth in relationship with the United Nations through international exchange and cooperation among students working to realize world peace. We will create all kinds of organizations for the preparation of a new cultural age in the coming 21st Century.
For all humankind to be able to experience freedom and equality and enjoy a proper life, YFWP will campaign to bring people into oneness with God’s true love and to construct the ideal world in which everyone can live together in peace and prosperity. We will promote a democratic society with equal distribution of economic resources.
Numerous people in many underdeveloped countries on this globe are still dying in misery. This is not just about someone else, but it is our situation too. Therefore, we will not just look at the miserable tragedies of our brothers and sisters in this global village, but we will develop the ultimate worldwide campaign to give them practical help.
From now on, YFWP will stand on the front line in relief work to save our suffering brothers and sisters around the globe, through following the will of our founder.
Dear representatives: Today, we should once again be aware of our need to receive the absolute help of God and heavenly fortune in our historic calling. You are a voluntary participants in this campaign. Although numerous righteous people have been killed while trying to make a better world, their great footprints have been brilliantly and elaborately engraved in human history and in God’s heart.
You should become the forerunners of this new age. I want you, as representatives of YFWP, to stand in front and pioneer this way, joining with me as we sincerely and passionately strive to bring about a new world of peace and happiness.
In conclusion, I pray God’s blessing and protection will be with YFWP and you. Thank you.
Dr. Sun Myung Moon
