Seeds of peace

George Penaluna reflects on the situation in North and South Korea

by George Penaluna 25th August 2017

Watching the news in April, with North Korea test-firing missiles and Donald Trump sending ‘an armada’ towards the Korean peninsula, it was not a great way to prepare for my trip to Seoul in May. I was travelling to see friends, having visited South Korea several times since a year-long internship in the early 1980s.

When I attended my friend’s community church I met Il Yung Lee, chair of ‘Seeds of Peace’, which runs the Border Peace School. As its name suggests, it is right on the border between South and North Korea. When we told him we were thinking of visiting the school he said: ‘Don’t think, just come, come!’