DISARMAMENT & SECURITY .
An article from KBS radio
About 500 students from around the world plan to hold a peace march near the Demilitarized Zone(DMZ) separating the two Koreas.
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Gangwon Province Office of Education said on Tuesday that it will hold the 2017 world peace education festival from May 27th to 31st in Gangneung and Goseong.
About 500 middle and high school students as well as teachers from seven countries including Japan, China, Russia and Indonesia plan to participate.
The event is jointly sponsored by the organizing committee of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics and the Asia-Pacific Center of Education for International Understanding under UNESCO.
Participants plan to hold a debate on ways to make a better and peaceful world in Gangneung.
They are then schedule to visit the Unification Observatory located in Goseong and hold a peace march to the nearby DMZ museum.
(Editor’s note: It is not clear if this is the same initiative as the peace march by 300 youth in the demilitarized zone scheduled for June 23 and sponsored by the U.S.-based International Cooperation of Environmental Youth (ICEY), led by Korean-American environmentalist Jonathan Lee – see article in the Yonhap News Agency).
(Thank you to the Global Campaign for Peace Education for calling this article to our attention.)