Towards an Ethics of Korean Reunification

An ethics of Korean reunification needs to uncover issues of oppression, exploitation, and domination that are results of the division of Korea. This division is one of the main causes of the structural evils present in the societies of both South and North Korea. The steady escalation of military competition, mutual distrust, reciprocal vilification, and hostility between the South and the North generates and sustains these structural evils. From a Christian perspective, the division of the Korean peninsula is sinful, not only because of the violence in which it is rooted and the pain it has caused the people, but also because it has contributed to the creation and sustaining of unjust systems in the North and South.