The Rev. Sun Myung Moon carried out one of the signature events of his church on Wednesday: He blessed about 7,000 couples in Seoul, South Korea — most of whom never saw each other before they were ...

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Dec. 2 (UPI) --The desire for unification among North Korean people could be driven by several factors, rooted in both the tangible benefits they hope to gain and a sense of shared heritage with the ...

On Tuesday, in a building along the border between North and South Korea, negotiators will sit down face to face for the first time in more than two years. That meeting, the latest in a flurry of ...

Han Hak-ja — the widow of the church’s founder, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon — was accused of bribing a former first lady for business and political favors. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul The widow ...

The leader of South Korea’s Unification Church has been arrested over allegations of bribery in the form of luxury bags and an expensive necklace linked to the country’s former first lady. In a ...

FOR MOST of the century since Ireland gained independence from Britain, control of the country has alternated between two parties. On February 8th that duopoly was smashed apart, when Sinn Fein got ...

It has been conventional wisdom among South Korean leaders – conservative and progressive – that the peaceful unification of the Korean Peninsula is the only correct endgame with North Korea. From Roh ...

Nearly two decades after the unification of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), Germans in the east and the west continue to express positive opinions about ...