Tag Archives: North Korea

Engaging North Korea: Quaker Work for Peace on the Korean Peninsula

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Jeff Kisling

Sunday March 18, 2018   4:00 PM Des Moines Valley Friends Meeting, 42nd and Grand, Des Moines, Iowa The Quaker-affiliated American Friends Service Committee has been working in North Korea for over three decades; by 1998, AFSC had established an on-going … Continue reading →

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Opening Humanitarian Channels with North Korea

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Jeff Kisling

Please share the following information about a presentation by Daniel Jasper and Linda Lewis, from the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC), about Opening Humanitarian Channels with North Korea. The meeting will be Sunday, March 18, at 4:00 PM at Des … Continue reading →

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North Korea and the Olympics

Posted on January 9, 2018 by Jeff Kisling

Today’s announcement that North Korea will participate in this year’s Winter Olympic Games, held in PyeongChang, South Korea is welcome news.  This represents an improvement in relations between North Korea and the rest of the world.  Many were concerned about … Continue reading →

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Quakers and North Korea–Update 11/2/2017

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

I was very glad to have a phone conversation with Dan Jasper, Asia Public Education and Advocacy Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).  I have written some about his work before.  He spoke of how alarming it is that … Continue reading →

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KHOI Radio Interviews-North Korea Exchange

Posted on October 21, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

Following up on recent articles in the Des Moines Register about Iowa and agricultural diplomacy, KHOI (89.1 FM) radio talk producer Susan Franzen created an episode titled “Citizen Diplomacy through agriculture from USSR to PRNC“. From the program’s website: Ambassador Kenneth … Continue reading →

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Reactions to Invitation to North Korea

Posted on October 18, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

As discussed here, Bear Creek Friends meeting wrote a letter to the Des Moines Register inviting another visit from a North Korean delegation to discuss agricultural practices.  I was wondering what the reader comments would be.  Following are what have … Continue reading →

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US-Korea Exchanges Possible

Posted on October 10, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

Daniel Jasper, the Asia Public Education and Advocacy Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee has just published the article Opening More Channels in US-North Korea Relations, explaining that there are exceptions to the travel ban that still allow exchanges between the … Continue reading →

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Is it impractical to invite North Korean visit?

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

Yesterday I wrote about the visit by a North Korean delegation to Bear Creek Friends meeting in 2001, and the meeting’s hope a similar visit could happen again.  The question of whether such a visit would even be allowed was … Continue reading →

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Bear Creek Friends Meeting and North Korea

Posted on October 8, 2017 by Jeff Kisling

I just wrote about the current interest in the idea of “farm diplomacy” after a couple of editorials were published in the Des Moines Register.  Sept. 1, 2017, Kenneth M Quinn, President of the World Food Prize suggested inviting a … Continue reading →

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