세계 40여개 나라 213명 저명 여성지도자들과 남북 해외 평화지향 단체들,
미국 트럼프 대통령에게 편지 보내어 코리아반도 평화보장을 촉구
세계 각계 여성들이 코리아반도 평화를 촉구하는 공개서한을 미국 대통령과 국무장관 및 국방장관 등에 보내 주목들 받아 왔다. 한편 이 편지에 담은 내용들이 뉴욕타임스 등 미국 유수언론에 보도되어 코리아반도의 평화문제가 세계의 관심을 집중시키고 있다. 이같은 활동을 주동적으로 실천한 크리스틴 안(안은희) 재미동포여성으로 알려졌다. 그는 북과 코리아전쟁 참가국들을 포함한 40개 나라의 학계, 실업계, 시민 사회계, 군부출신 등 여성지도자들을 대표하여 코리아반도의 평화보장을 요구하는 편지를 4월 26일 미국 대통령 트럼프에게 보냈다. 편지는 외교만이 코리아가 직면한 핵위기와 전쟁위협을 해결할 수 있는 유일한 방도라고 밝히며, 1953년의 정전협정을 평화협정으로 바꾸어 코리아 평화를 보장할 절차를 시작하라고 촉구하였다.
편지 전문은 다음과 같다.
President Donald Trump Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson
Secretary of Defense James Mattis
McMaster, National Security Council
April
26, 2017
Dear
President Trump:
We are women leaders from over 40 countries,
including the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea (DPRK), and many from nations that fought in the Korean War.
We are from academia, business, civil society and the military, and represent a
diversity of ethnicities, nationalities, religions, and political views. We are
united by our belief that diplomacy is the only way to resolve the nuclear
crisis and threat of war now facing the Korean peninsula.
On July 27, 1953, leaders from the United
States, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and China
signed the Armistice Agreement to halt the Korean War. They promised to
re-convene within three months to replace the ceasefire with a binding peace
agreement. This never occurred and an entrenched state of war has ever since
defined inter-Korean and U.S.-D.P.R.K. relations. This war must end.
Korea is the only nation to remain divided as a
result of WWII. For three generations, millions of families have been separated
by the world’s most militarized border. We
urge you to do the following to avert war in Korea and bring about a
long-desired peace on the peninsula:
- Negotiate a freeze of North Korea’s nuclear and long-range ballistic program in exchange for
a U.S. security guarantee that would include suspending U.S.-South Korea
military exercises.
- Initiate a peace process with North Korea,
South Korea and China to replace the 1953 Armistice Agreement with a
binding peace treaty to end the Korean War. Women must be significantly
represented in the peace process in accordance with the spirit of UNSCR
1325.
- Support citizen diplomacy to heal the
legacies of the Korean War by establishing a liaison office in Washington
and Pyongyang to facilitate retrieval of U.S. Korean War servicemen’s remains and Korean- American family reunions.
Since 1950, the Korean peninsula has been
threatened with nuclear weapons, missile tests, and military exercises that
have only served to make 75 million Korean people less secure. In the United
States and on both sides of the Korean De-Militarized Zone, the absence of a
binding peace accord fuels fear and economic deprivation caused by diverting
public resources in preparation for war, including deploying the controversial
THAAD missile defense system in South Korea. This endless militarization must
stop.
Peace is the most powerful deterrent of all. We
urge you to take steps now to help formally end the Korean War with a peace
treaty. Doing so would lead to greater peace and security for the Korean
peninsula and region and halt the proliferation of nuclear weapons. We look to
you to accomplish what successive U.S. Presidents have failed to do for seven
decades: establish peace on the Korean peninsula.
Sincerely Yours,
- Abigail Disney, USA, Filmmaker and Philanthropist
- Aimee Alison, USA, President Democracy in Color
- Aiyoung Choi, USA, Steering Committee Member, Women Cross DMZ
- Alana Price, USA, Editor of Truthout
- Alice Slater, USA, Coordinating Committee Member, World Beyond
War
- Alice Walker, USA, Author and Activist
- Alicia Garza, USA, National Domestic Workers Alliance and Black
Lives Matter
- Amina Mama, Nigeria/USA, Professor, University of California,
Davis
- Amira Ali, Ethiopia, Author and Activist
- Ana Oliveira, USA, Philanthropist
- Anasuya Sengupta, India, Feminist author and activist,
co-founder Whose Voices?
- Angela Chung, USA, Attorney and Human Rights Activist
- Angela Davis, USA, Professor, University of California, Santa
Cruz
- Ani DiFranco, USA, Singer, Songwriter, Poet,
Multi-instrumentalist & Businesswoman
- Annabel Park, USA, Filmmaker
- Ann Frisch, USA, Professor Emerita University of Wisconsin
Rotary Club of White Bear Lake, 5960
- Anne Delaney, USA, Artist and Philanthropist
- Anuradha Mittal, USA, Executive Director, Oakland Institute
- Ann Patterson, Northern Ireland, Peace People
- Ann Wright, USA, Retired US Army Colonel & Diplomat
- Anne Beldo, Norway, Lawyer and Partner of Hegg & Co. Law
Firm
- Annette Groth, Germany, Member of Bundestag
- Annie Isabel Fukushima, USA, Professor, University of Utah
- Audrey McLaughlin, Canada, Former President, Socialist
International Women
- Becky Rafter, USA, Executive Director, Georgia Women’s Action
for New Directions (WAND)
- Betty Burkes, USA, Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
- Betty Reardon, USA, Founding Director of the International
Institute on Peace Education
- Bridget Burns, Co-Director, Women’s Environment and Development
Organization (WEDO)
- Brinton Lykes, USA, Professor, Boston College
- Caitlin Kee, USA, Attorney, Thomson-Reuters
- Carrie Menkel-Meadow, USA, Chancellor’s Professor of Law,
University of California Irvine Law School
- Catherine Christie, Canada, United Church Canada
- Catherine Hoffman, USA, Coordinator, Cambridge Restorative
Justice Working Group
- Carter McKenzie, USA, Springfield-Eugene Chapter of Showing Up
for Racial Justice
- Charlotte Wiktorsson, Sweden, Swedish Physicians Against War
- Christine Ahn, USA, International Coordinator, Women Cross DMZ
- Christine Cordero, USA, Center for Story-based Strategy
- Chung-Wha Hong, USA, Executive Director, Grassroots
International
- Cindy Wiesner, USA, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance National
Coordinator
- Clare Bayard, USA, Catalyst Project
- Coleen Baik, USA, Twitter @Design Alumna
- Cora Weiss, USA, President, Hague Appeal for Peace
- Corazon Valdez Fabros, Philippines, Co-Vice President,
International Peace Bureau
- Cynda Collins Arsenault, USA, Philanthropist, Secure World
Foundation
- Cynthia Enloe, USA, Professor, Clark University
- Darakshan Raja, USA, Executive Director, Washington Peace Center
- Deann Borshay Liem, USA, Filmmaker
- Don Mee Choi, USA, Poet & Translator, International Women’s
Network Against Militarism
- Dorchen A. Leidholdt, USA, Attorney, Professor, Feminist
- Dorothy Ogle, USA, National Council of Churches
- Dorothy J. Solinger, USA, Professor Emerita, University of
California, Irvine
- Ekaterina Zagladina, Russia, Permanent Secretariat, Nobel Peace
Summit
- Elaine H. Kim, USA, Professor, University of California,
Berkeley
- Eleana J. Kim, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University
of California, Irvine
- Eleanor Blomstrom, Co-Director, Women’s Environment and
Development Organization (WEDO)
- Ellen Carol DuBois, Professor, History and Gender Studies,
University of California, Los Angeles
- Ellen-Rae Cachola, USA, Women’s Voices Women Speak
- Emilia Castro, Canada, Co-Representative of Intl. Committee,
Americas Region, World March of Women
- Eunice How, USA, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO,
Seattle chapter
- Eve Ensler, USA, Playwright
- Ewa Eriksson Fortier, Sweden, Humanitarian Aid Worker
- Faye Leone, USA, Writer and Editor, International Institute for
Sustainable Development
- Fenna ten Berge, Netherlands, Director of Muslims for
Progressive Values
- Fiona Dove, Netherlands, Executive Director, Transnational
Institute
- Fragkiska Megaloudi, Greece, Journalist
- Frances Kissling, USA, University of Pennsylvania; former
President, Catholics for Choice
- Francisca de Haan, Netherlands, Professor, Central European
University
- Gabriela Zapata Alvarez, Mexico, Consultative Group to Assist
the Poor
- Gay Dillingham, USA, Filmmaker, Former Advisor to Governor Bill
Richardson
- Gayle Wells, USA, Business owner
- Glenda Paige, USA, Secretary, Governing Council, Center for
Global Nonkilling
- Gloria Steinem, USA, Writer and Activist, Presidential Medal of
Freedom Awardee
- Grace Cho, USA, Professor, College of Staten Island, City
University of New York
- Gwen Kim, USA, Ohana Koa, Nuclear Free and Independent Hawaii
- Gwyn Kirk, USA, Women for Genuine Security
- Haeyoung Yoon, USA, human rights lawyer
- Hazel Smith, United Kingdom, Professor, University of Central
Lancashire
- Helen Caldicott, Australia, Founding President of Physicians for
Social Responsibility
- Helena Wong, USA, U.S. National Organizer, World March of Women
- Hope A. Cristobal, Guam, Former Senator
- Hye-Jung Park, USA, Filmmaker, Community Media Activist
- Hyaeweol Choi, Australia, Professor, Australian National
University
- Hyunju Bae, Republic of Korea, Central and Executive Committee,
World Council of Churches
- Ingeborg Breines, Norway, Co-President, International Peace
Bureau; former Director UNESCO
- Isabella Sargsyan, Armenia, Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly
- Isabelle Geukens, Netherlands, Executive Director, Women
Peacemakers Program
- Jaana Rehnstrom, Finland, President, KOTA Alliance
- Jackie Cabasso, USA, U.S. Mayors for Peace
- Jacquelyn Wells, USA, Women Cross DMZ
- Jacqui True, Australia, Professor, Monash University
- Jane Chung-Do, Professor, University of Hawaii Manoa
- Jane Jin Kaisen, Denmark, Artist and Filmmaker
- Janis Alton, Canada, Co-Chair, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
- Jasmine Galace, Philippines, The Center for Peace Education,
Miriam College
- Jean Chung, Republic of Korea/USA, Founder, Action for One Korea
- Jennifer Kwon-Dobbs, USA, Professor, St. Olaf College
- Ji-yeon Yuh, USA, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern
University
- Joanne Yoon Fukumoto, USA, Trinity United Methodist Church
- Jodie Evans, USA, Co-founder, Code Pink
- Joy Dunsheath, New Zealand, President, United Nations
Association New Zealand
- Judith LeBlanc, USA, Director, Native Organizers Alliance
- Judy Hatcher, USA, Executive Director, Pesticide Action Network
North America
- Judy Rebick, Canada, Former President, National Action Committee
on the Status of Women
- Julie Young, USA, Board Chair, Korean American Story
- Justine Kwachu Kumche, Cameroon, Executive Director, Women in
Alternative Action—WAA
- Kate Dewes, New Zealand, Former Member of United Nations
Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters; Co-Director of
the Disarmament and Security Centre
- Kate Hudson, United Kingdom, General Secretary, Campaign for
Nuclear Disarmament
- Kathy Crandall Robinson, USA, Women in International Security
- Kathy Kelly, USA, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
- Kavita Ramdas, USA, Ford Foundation
- Khin Ohmar, Burma/Myanmar, Coordinator, Burma Partnership
- Kim Ku’ulei Birnie, Hawaii/USA, Women’s Voices, Women Speak
- Kim Phuc, Canada/Vietnam, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador
- Koohan Paik, USA, Journalist and Activist
- Kozue Akibayashi, Japan, Intl. President, Women’s International
League for Peace and Freedom
- Krassimira Daskalova, Bulgaria, Professor, University of Sofia
- Krishanti Dharmaraj, USA, Executive Director, Center for Women’s
Global Leadership
- Kyeong-Hee Choi, USA, Professor, University of Chicago
- Kyung-Hee Ha, Japan, Assistant Professor, Meiji University
- Laura Dawn, USA, filmmaker & Founder, ART NOT WAR
- Laura Hein, USA, Professor, Northwestern University
- Laurie Ross, New Zealand, The Peace Foundation of New Zealand
Aotearoa, International Affairs and Disarmament Committee
- Lekkie Hopkins, Australia, Professor, Edith Cowan University
- Leymah Gbowee, Liberia, 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate
- Linda Burnham, USA, National Domestic Workers Alliance
- Lindsey German, United Kingdom, National Convener, Stop the War
Coalition
- Lisa Natividad, Guam, President, Guahan Coalition for Peace and
Justice
- Liza Maza, Philippines, former Parliamentarian; Gabriella
Network
- Lourdes Leon Guerrero, Guam, Fuetsan Famalao'an
- Luisa Morgantini, Italy, Member, European Parliament
- Lydia Alpizar, Mexico, Executive Director, AWID (Association of
Women's Rights in Development)
- Madeline Rees, United Kingdom, Secretary General, Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom
- Madelyn Hoffman, USA, Executive Director, New Jersey Peace
Action
- Maggie Martin, USA, Iraq Veterans Against the War
- Mairead Maguire, Northern Ireland, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate
- Maja Vitas Majstorovic, Serbia, Gender Coordinator, Global
Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict
- Marevic Parcon, Philippines, Asia Regional Coordinator, Women's
Global Network for Reproductive Rights
- Margaret Gerhardt, USA, University of Pennsylvania
- Margo Okazawa-Rey, USA, Professor Emerita, San Francisco State
University
- Marilyn Waring, New Zealand, Professor of Public Policy,
Auckland University of Technology
- Marta Benavides, El Salvador, Siglo XXIII
- Mary C. Murphree, USA, Sociologist
- Mavic Cabrera-Balleza, Philippines, International Coordinator,
Global Network of Women Peacebuilders
- Maya Schenwar, USA, Truthout Editor
- Medea Benjamin, USA, Co-founder, Code Pink
- Meenakshi Gopinath, India, Women in Security, Conflict
Management and Peace (WISCOMP)
- Megan Amundson, USA, Executive Director, Women’s Action for New
Direction (WAND)
- Megan Burke, USA, Director, International Campaign to Ban
Landmines-Cluster Munitions Coalition
- Melissa Giovale, USA, Founder and Board Member, Bell Garden
Buddhist Center
- Meredith Woo, USA, Open Society Foundations
- Meri Joyce, Australia, Regional Coordinator, Global Partnership
for Prevention of Armed Conflict
- Mimi Han, Republic of Korea/USA, International Vice President,
YWCA
- Mimi Kim, USA, Professor, Cal State University, Long Beach
- Mina Watanabe, Japan, Secretary General, Women’s Active Museum
on War and Peace
- Miranda Cahn, New Zealand, Head of Programme Development and
Quality, Save the Children New Zealand
- Musimbi Kanyoro, Kenya/USA, Executive Director of Global Fund
for Women
- Nada Drobnjak, Montenegro, Member of Parliament
- Namhee Lee, USA, Professor, University of California, Los
Angeles
- Nan Kim, USA, Professor, University of Wisconsin
- Nancy Ruth, Canada, Senator
- Naomi Klein, Canada, Journalist and Activist
- Nathalie Margie, USA, Urgent Action Fund
- Netsai Mushonga, Zimbabwe, Commissioner, Zimbabwe Electoral
Commission; African Women Active Nonviolence Initiative for Social Change
- Nighat Said Khan, Pakistan, Executive Chair, DidiBahini
- Nina Tsikhistavi-Khutsishvili, Georgia, Board Chair,
International Center on Conflict and Negotiation
- Noura Erakat, USA, Human Rights Attorney
- Nunu Kidane, USA, Board Member, Priority Africa Network
- Orysia Sushko, Ukraine, President, World Federation of Ukrainian
Women's Organizations
- Ouypourn Khuankaew, Thailand, Founder, International Women’s
Partnership for Peace and Justice
- Pam McMichael, USA, Director of Highlander Research and
Education Center
- Pamela Brubaker, USA, Professor Emerita, California Lutheran
University
- Patricia Thane, United Kingdom, Professor, Kings College
- Paula Garb, USA, Co-Director, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding,
University of California, Irvine Penny
- Rosenwasser, USA, Founding Board Member, Jewish Voice for Peace
- Phyllis Bennis, USA, Director, New Internationalism Project,
Institute for Policy Studies
- Regina Munoz, Sweden, Peace Activist
- Robina Marie Winbush, USA, Minister, Member of World Council of
Churches Exec and Central Committee
- Rose Othieno, Uganda, Executive Director, Center for Conflict
Resolution
- Saloni Singh, Nepal, Executive Chair, DidiBahini
- Samanthi Gunwardana, Australia, Monash University
- Sandra Moran, Guatemala, Co-Representative of Intl. Committee,
Americas Region, World March of Women
- Setsuko Thurlow, Canada, International Educator,
Hibakusha/A-Bomb Survivor
- Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, Fiji, Executive Producer, FemLINKpacific;
Board Chair, Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict
- Shirley Douglas, Canada, Actor and Activist
- Simone Chun, USA, Journalist and Activist
- Sophia Close, Australia, Australia National University, Canberra
- Sophie Toupin, Canada, Women Peace and Security Network Canada
- Soya Jung, USA, Writer and Activist
- Sue Wareham OAM, Australia, Vice-President, Medical Association
for Prevention of War
- Sung-ok Lee, USA, Assistant General Secretary, United Methodist
Women
- Susan Cundiff, USA, Oregon Women’s Action for New Directions
(WAND)
- Susan Smith, USA, Muslim Peace Fellowship
- Su Yon Pak, USA, Professor, Union Theological Seminary
- Suzuyo Takazato, Japan, Okinawa Women Act Against Military
Violence
- Suzy Kim, USA, Professor, Rutgers University
- Taina Bien-Aime, USA, Executive Director, International
Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
- Tani Barlow, USA, Professor, Rice University
- Tanya Selvaratnam, USA, Senior Producer, Art Not War
- Terrilee Kekoolani, Ko Pae'Aina Hawai'i, Kanaka Maoli
- Terry Greenblatt, Israel/USA, The Ploughshares Fund
- Una Kim, USA, Researcher
- Unzu Lee, USA, Presbyterian Minister, Women for Genuine Security
- Valerie Plame, USA, Former Covert CIA Operations Officer
- Vana Kim, USA, Spiritual Teacher
- Visaka Dharmadasa, Sri Lanka, Founder, Association of War
Affected Women
- Wei Zhang, USA, Folk Art Researcher
- Wendi Deetz, USA, Global Fund for Women
- Winnie Wang, USA, Center for Global Nonkilling
- Wonhee Anne Joh, USA, Professor of Theology, Garrett-Evangelical
Theological Seminary
- Yayoi Tsuchida, Japan, General Secretary, Japan Council Against
Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs
- Yifat Susskind, USA, Executive Director, MADRE
- Yoonkyung Lee, Canada, Professor, University of Toronto
- Youngju Ryu, USA, Professor, University of Michigan
(List in formation & Note:
Organizations/Affiliations Listed Only for Identification Purposes )
International Women’s Organizations
Church
Women United CODE PINK
International
Women’s Network Against Militarism MADRE
Women’s
International League for Peace and Freedom, UK Section
North Korean Women’s Organization
Korea
Socialist Women’s Union
South Korean Women’s and Peace Organizations
- Women Making Peace (평화여성회)
- Korea Women's Association United (한국여성단체연합/7개 지부, 30개 회원단체)
- Korean Association of Women Theologians (한국여신학자협의회)
- The Council of Churches in Korea, Women's Committee (한국기독교교회협의회 여성위원회)
- The Association of Major Superiors of Women Religious in Korea (한국천주교여자수도회 장상연합회)
- The Righteous People for Korean Unification (새로운 백년을 여는 통일의병)
- The Gongju Women Human Rights Center (공주 여성인권)
- The World Council of Churches (세계교회협의회)
- The Christian Network for Peace and
Unification (평화와통일을위한기독인연대)
- beyondit (너머서)
- Okedongmu Children in Korea (어린이 어깨동무)
- Women History Forum (여성역사포럼)
- Peace Mother (평화어머니회)
- Kyunggi Women's Association United (경기여성연합)
- Kyunggi Goyang-Paju Women Link (경기 고양파주 민우회)
- Kyunggi Women's Network (경기여성네트워크)
- The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual
Slavery by Japan (한국정신대문제대책협의회)
- Korea Women's Political Solidarity (여세연)
- Korean Sharing Movement (우리민족서로돕기운동)
- People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy (참여연대)
- Iftopia (문화세상 이프토피아)
- Ewha Women's Alumni Meeting for Democracy (이화민주동우회)
- Kyunggi Jinbo Women United (경기여성자주연대)
- Kyunggi Council of Women (경기여성단체협의회)
- Chungchung-namdo Education Center for Equality (충청남도 성평등교육문화센타)
- 21st Century Seoul Women's Union (21세기 서울여성회)
- Common Nourishing and Education (공동육아와 공동체 교육)
- Ecumenical Youth Network (에큐메니칼 청년 네트워크)
- Women Ministers Association of Presbyterian Churches Korea (대한예수교장로회 전국여교역자연합회)
- Women Ministers' Association of Presbyterian Church in the
Republic of Korea (한국기독교장로회여교역자협의회)
- Korea Association Methodist Women in Ministry (기독교대한감리회 여교역자회)
- Korea Methodist Women's Leadership Institute (감리교여성지도력개발원)
- Korea Church Women United (한국교회여성연합회)
- Duraebang (두레방)
- Sunlit Sisters' Center (햇살사회복지회)
- United for Women's Rights Against US Military Bases' Crime (기지촌여성인권연대)
- United Voice for the Eradication of Prostitution: Hansori (성매매근절을위한 한소리회)
Women Cross DMZ (www.womencrossdmz.org)
Women Cross DMZ is an organization led by women
working globally for peace in Korea. In May 2015, on the 70th anniversary of
the division of Korea, Women Cross DMZ led a historic women’s
peace walk across the De- Militarized Zone from North to South Korea to draw
global attention to the urgent need to end the Korean War with a peace treaty,
reunite divided families, and ensure women’s leadership in peacebuilding.
Representing 15 countries, our 30-member international delegation walked with
10,000 Korean women on both sides of the DMZ. Our mission is to: 1.) Promote
women’s
leadership in the peacebuilding process in Korea; 2.) Raise awareness about the
urgent need for peace in Korea; and 3.) Expand and deepen relationships with
women leaders and organizations in South Korea, North Korea, and around the
world.
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