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  Hyun Kyung-dae, Executive Vice-chairperson of the NUAC

  Hyun Kyung-dae, Executive Vice-chairperson, emphasized that what NUAC should do is to combine the people's will for unification and take a role of building a safe society, which we are now facing. He attended the Policy Meeting by division held on June 2nd at Daejon and delivered the keynote address where he said that the safety of the people and national security are the prerequisites to establishing the foundation for national unification. He requested the council members to perform the roles of guarding the safety of the country to protect people’s lives and property.

Hyun said that the type of unification that President Park described was not merely about re-unifying the land, but that it was about resolving North Korea’s nuclear issues, maintaining the peace and safety of Northeast Asia, and pursuing world peace and economic prosperity.

About 140 council members involved in 18 fields of South Korean society attended the Policy Meeting by division of the NUAC to suggest their professional opinions on the unification policy. The members who attended the meeting represented the three divisions of unification, administration, and agriculture/fishery/forestry.

Hyun, the Executive Vice-chairperson, delivered a keynote lecture, followed by greetings from Secretary General Park Chan-bong, and then a special lecture by Choi Jin-wook, president of the Korea Institute for National Unification. The council members then engaged in intensive group discussions. They pointed to the urgency in combining their determination and strength together in order to achieve national unification.

Choi Jin-wook, the president of the Korea Institute for National Unification, analyzed the factors hindering unification that have occurred, due to the unification environments at home and abroad. He also explained how to create a unification-friendly society in his special lecture on the "Recent Changes in Unification Environments in the Korean Peninsula and in Inter-Korean Relationships.”

He mentioned the negative public opinion that South Koreans have about supporting North Korea, due to its repeated provocations. He stated, "The stance of Park Geun-hye’s government is clear: If the North comes in peace, we take them with hospitality, if not, they’ll get what they deserve. It is necessary for the people to support the trust-building process of the current administration and the government’s unification policy.”

• Secretary General Park Chan-bong, explained President Park Geun-hye’s Unification Bonanza Theory, the, Necessity to Establish a Unification Preparation Committee and the Dresden Plan. He said, "Now is the time to prepare for unification in earnest. The council members are required to prepare for unification in each area with a professional mindset. The NUAC is ready to support specialized preparations for unification."

Group discussions by division covered the following subjects listed below:△The Unification division: The method to gain more support from the public with the Unification Bonanza Theory. △The Administration division: The method to recover the homogeneity between the people of South and North Korea△The Agriculture/fishery/forestry division: The method to revitalize the exchanges of agriculture/fishery/forestry between the South and North.

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  Choi Jin-wook, director of the Unification Research Institute

  Choi said that strengthening our cooperation with China based on the Korea-U.S. alliance faces difficulties due to competing hegemonies between the U.S.A., China, and Japan. He said that securing the foundation for supporting the unification of the Korean Peninsula from the world’s top powers was essential and that this could be achieved by improving South Korea’s relationship with other surrounding countries.

Council members agreed that advertising virally was critical to the progress in achieving unification of the Korean Peninsula. This means that council members are required to be able to lead discussions on the topic of unification at any time and place with people, and to bring up the issues related to the contents and methods of national unification. For such reasons, various programs to reinforce the ability of the council members are required.