The NUAC Chief of Women and North Korean Refugees Support Standing Committee (Chief: Professor Kim Sun-uk of Ewha Law School) held its 3rd Standing Committee meeting on Feb. 26 with the agenda of “Analysis of Social Discussion on North Korea’s Nuclear Issue and Methods to Proliferate a National Bond of Sympathy.”

“Today’s discussion will be a big help in resolving North Korea’s nuclear issue, as we are under a national crisis such as North Korea’s nuclear experiment and closure of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex,” said Kim Sun-uk in her opening speech.

According to Park Young-ja, a research fellow at the Korea Institute for National Unification, the unification environment and South-North Korea relations have drastically changed after the 4th nuclear experiment and launch of long-range missile. She stressed the desperate need to come up with a plan to have the change in environment translate into a new power source for unification preparation.

“In order to do so, we need to assess objectively society’s discussion and problems and search for measures to form proper social discussion and to proliferate the bond of sympathy,” she added.

Education on the threats posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons, spread of discussion on “Unification, a New Opportunity in our Life,” and organization of the all-partisan “Unification, Security, and Peace Chapter” were suggested to proliferate proper national discussion and bond of sympathy.

In the debate that followed, diverse opinions such as increasing lectures on North Korea’s nuclear issue as well as on peace & security, creating and distributing videos or materials to show the real danger of North Korea’s nuclear weapons, and expanding field and participatory education to introduce the issue in an easier manner were raised.

The contents of this debate, integrated with the results of other Standing Committees, will be reported to the Chairperson in March.