This speech was delivered by FFWPU Korea President Kyeng-seuk Ryu, representing Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, historic at the 2015 Citizens' Rally for Peaceful Reunification of the Homeland, on November 17, 2015, at Olympic Hall in Olympic Park, Seoul.
Beloved peace ambassadors, citizen representatives preparing for unification, and leaders of every area of society who are eagerly longing for unification! The year 2015 is historic because it marks 70 years since our independence.
At the same time, it is the 70th year of our people's painful division. Due to our colonization and the war and division that followed colonization, our people have gone through unspeakable pain and difficulty.
The cornerstone for North-South unification and world peace
When we look at the history of the providence and the history of civilizations, despite the appearance of the True Parents on the Korean Peninsula, which is the blessed land where all civilizations should bear fruit, in our world which is divided by foreign powers and ideology Korea has remained a nation divided for more than 70 years, with the result that parents and children, brothers and sisters have been blocked by the walls of the ideologies of democracy and communism.
They have had to live through a miserable history, not even knowing if their family members were alive or dead. The dividing line of tears and sorrow, which has separated the Korean Peninsula into North and South for the last 70 years, is a geographical line, but it is also a line that divides lineages.
Actually, when considering whether God exists or not, this line is an ideological line of division in the intense confrontation between materialism and theism, as well as a dividing line between value systems.
This sharp confrontation of thought and values resulted from the Fall of our first human ancestors and has continued to expand throughout the course of Restoration history.
It has grown from the individual to the family, people, nation and world levels, and in the twentieth century, it has come to the surface under the names of democracy and communism and has become the fundamental cause of the division.
Accordingly, the peaceful unification of the Korean Peninsula cannot be accomplished without fundamentally solving the problem of the ideology of the Cold War that caused the division and without addressing the issue of establishing absolute values, which are the basis for unification.
Beloved peace ambassadors and citizen representatives, preparing for unification!
True unification cannot be established through military power, with guns and swords, nor can it be accomplished solely through the logic of politics, which puts economic growth at the forefront.
Unification is possible only when the lofty unification ideal and a national vision are presented that can awaken us to the understanding that we are all brothers and sisters under our Heavenly Parent and can at the same time fundamentally resolve the limitations of both capitalism and communism.
For brothers and sisters to become one, the parents must be at the center. If they do not attend to their parents as the center, there is no way for the brothers and sisters to become one.
Accordingly; Reverend Moon and I resolved the fundamental problem of the ideology of the Cold War, which is the cause of the division, and at the same time we revealed the True Parents of the Korean people and of all humankind and systematized a philosophy of peace as the Divine Principle and Unification Thought (headwing thought).
Through our 1990 meeting with President Gorbachev, we ushered in the end of communism, and through the 1991 meeting with North Korean President Kim Il-Sung, we alleviated the strained North-South relationship and opened the way for realistic exchanges for unification.
We initiated diverse North-South exchanges for economic cooperation, such as business plans for the development of Geumgang Mountain, Pyeonghwa Motors, and the Botonggang Hotel, as well as university student exchanges, Pyongyang sightseeing, and performances by the Little Angels and the Pyongyang Students Performing Arts Company.
In addition to help international society actively cooperate for the unification of the Korean Peninsula, we established peace organizations in 194 nations. These include the Universal Peace Federation, the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace, the Women's Federation for World Peace, the Youth Federation for World Peace, the World Peace Federation, and other organizations.
We established world-class media organizations such as The Washington Times, whose work has contributed greatly to the resolution of the problem of North Korea's nuclear program and to easing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
Based on this kind of groundwork, in 2015 I instituted the Peace Road Project, in which 121 nations participated. Through this, we brought the whole world together to unite its power for the peaceful unification of the Korean Peninsula.
Hundreds of thousands of the world's people of different races, languages, and nationalities participated and joined in wishing for the unification of the Korean Peninsula.
When they joined in singing the “Song of Unity” together in Korean, it was a moving and great moment in history, one never seen since the foundation of the Republic of Korea.
Now, to establish a substantial foundation for world peace and for North-South unification, I am carrying out various projects aimed at establishing a fifth United Nations Office in the DMZ.
Sun Jin Moon
I am connecting and mobilizing the entire global network my husband and I have established throughout our lives, and, starting with the success of this project, which has the unification of the North and South as its central focus, we are seeking to lay the cornerstone for North-South unification and world peace.
The true unification that Heaven awaits
Beloved peace ambassadors and citizen representatives, we are preparing for unification!
The purpose of the North-South unification that Heaven awaits is not just unification itself. It is for eternal freedom, peace, and happiness, and for the flowers of the ideal to bloom on the foundation of unification.
Accordingly, unification cannot be achieved through power or intimidation. Rather, it must be accomplished through true love, which gives to the other.
The true unification that Heaven is expecting is peaceful unification based on the foundation of true love and based on the principles of interdependence, mutual prosperity, and universally shared values.
That is, peaceful unification brought about through mutual trust between the North and the South and nonviolence with no military force. When the South Koreans can love North Korea more than they love South Korea, and North Koreans can love South Korea more than they love North Korea, unification will be possible.
To expand this kind of true-love spirit of unification into a movement of all the citizens of Korea, I have been actively motivating the Citizens' Federation for the Unification of North and South Korea, the Korean Ambassadors for Peace Association, and the Mountain Stream Club for Loving the Nation, and other organizations.
Through them, I am assembling one million Citizen Representatives Preparing for Unification. This is because North-South unification must come primarily from the unity of sincere, involved citizens.
In addition, it is necessary to be able to wisely confront any difficulties that may arise in the process of unification with thorough preparation and the right mindset.
At this point, I hope that this Citizens' Rally to Realize Peaceful Unification being held today will become a true starting point to prepare for the era of unification. I hope that all of you who have established sisterhood and brotherhood relationships will become leaders in the foundation of the unified homeland with our Heavenly Parent at the center.
I pray that our Heavenly Parent's blessings will be with your families and the Republic of Korea.
Hak Ja Han Moon