South Korean church council urges Bush to lift sanctions on North.(National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A.)

The Christian Century | August 22, 2006 | Copyright

The head of South Korea's National Council of Churches has written to President Bush, urging that sanctions on North Korea be lifted and that a peace agreement be negotiated to replace an armistice signed on the Korean Peninsula in 1953.

Anglican bishop Park Kyung-Jo, president of the National Council of Churches in Korea, said he had sent his letter July 7 on behalf of churches. In it he said: "It is generally understood that the sanctions against North Korea since 1950 have been enforced by the U.S.A. in its own political interest. Experts indicate that the ...

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