May 9, 2002

Conference Explores Search for Peace in Northeast Asia and Reunification of Korea

2002-115

Episcopal News Service
James Solheim

[During a visit to the Dem...]
During a visit to the Demilitarized Zone marking the tense border between North and South Korea, commission members stopped at Freedom Bridge used for repatriation of prisoners at the end of the war and now often called the Berlin Wall of Korea. (Left to right), Bishop Richard Shimpfky, chair of the Standing Commission on Anglican and International Peace with Justice Concerns; the Rev. Sam Koshiishi, general secretary of the Nippon Sei Ko Kai (Anglican) church in Japan; the Rev. Brian Grieves, director of the Office of Peace and Justice Ministries for the Episcopal Church; and Louie Crew of Newark, a member of the commission and the church's Executive Council. (ENS photo by James Solheim)