[Policy Paper] Risk of Nuclear War in Korea and Peaceful Solutions

Korea Peace Appeal Report
from Armistice to Peace
Risk of Nuclear War in Korea and Peaceful Solutions

“One day we will be able to see the Korean War like this :
We will talk not about combat but about the war, not about the cruelty of the enemy but about the cruelty of war, about the scars left on the people by the long war, and about the stories of the ‘ordinary people who lived in an extraordinary time.’”
– Lee Hyangkyu, 《Unflattening》, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2020

Military tensions on the Korean Peninsula are higher than ever. With an unstable ceasefire far from over, an unprecedented threat of war is brewing again.

In 2018, when the United States (U.S.), South Korea (ROK) and North Korea (DPRK) governments agreed to shift to a new relation in 「Panmunjom Declaration on Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula」, 「Pyongyang Joint Declaration of September 2018」, and 「Joint Statement of at the Singapore Summit by the leaders of the DPRK and the U.S.」, the people of the Korean Peninsula saw a ray of hope that the threat of war would disappear and a future of peaceful coexistence would open up. But despite the hard-won inter-Korean and DPRK-U.S. agreements, dialogue has halted. Strength for strength confrontation has escalated, and now the Korean Peninsula is plunging deeper into darkness.

We cannot sit back and watch helplessly as the peace we have been calling out for over 70 years slips away and the clouds of war are approaching. We still have time to prevent conflict and catastrophe. There is still an opportunity to find ways to stop hostilities and reduce mutual threats, and to reopen the dialogue.

Korea Peace Appeal Campaign is a global peace movement that has conducted various activities from 2020 to 2023 to end the more than 70-year long Korean War, transform hostile relations, and realize peace and denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula through dialogue and negotiation. Based on the opinions and activities of civil society organizations, seven major religions in the Republic of Korea, overseas Koreans, and international partner organizations that have been working together for peace, we review the crisis on the Korean Peninsula and propose peaceful solutions to the conflict. We hope we can be of help on the way to creating hope for peace again.

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