[MANNAM World News] North youth group given nod to visit for UN event

Seoul has approved a visit from a group of young North Koreans to Gwangju that will participate in a UN-hosted international youth conference as a conciliatory mood settles over the peninsula.
South Korea’s Unification Ministry, which is in charge of all inter-Korean affairs, announced yesterday its decision to allow three North Koreans to visit the South along with an official from Pyongyang as their guardian. Relations between the two countries have entered a bright patch recently, with the joint Kaesong Industrial Complex reopening and reunions coming up for families split by the 1950-53 Korean War.
The three teenagers, whose identities have not been revealed, will take part in the seventh Youth Leadership Program being held at Honam University in the southwestern city of Gwangju. The event begins Thursday and will run through Sept. 13.
The four will arrive at Incheon International Airport via Beijing on Wednesday and leave on Sept. 4.
Hosted by the United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace (Unosdp) three or four times a year, the program provides leadership training for young people between the ages of 18 and 25 from developing countries, where they rarely get a chance to experience such education
The conference first convened in Doha in 2012.
During their 13-day stay, a total of 34 adolescents from 19 regions in Asia and Oceania will participate in a variety of programs including sports competitions, leadership lectures and Korean cultural activities.
Participation fees are all covered by the UN, with the accommodation provided by the Gwangju city government. Flights for all participants have been covered by Korean Air.
On Friday, North Korea sent a list of the three youths and the chaperon to the Unosdp headquarters that was handed over to the Gwangju city government. The city then asked the Unification Ministry for approval for the visit.

source: http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=2976356


I  can only hope that many group of young people want to be shared equally and discuss world peace through the Youth Leatdership program.
There are few Korean people who do not long for the unification of South and North Korea.
MANNAM Volunteer also wish for world peace, and we are moving to world peace.
I hope that the day of reunification would come as soon as possible.

[MANNAM World News] Bill, Chelsea Clinton return to Africa for foundation work

(CNN) -- Chelsea Clinton can trace her African awakening to February 11, 1990, when she sat on the kitchen counter of the governor's mansion in Arkansas and watched with her parents as Nelson Mandela walked out of prison in South Africa.
Just shy of her 10th birthday, Clinton knew then that history was being made and even more, "that the future was being born," she told CNN before leaving this week on a nine-day, six-stop African trip with her father, former President Bill Clinton.
Now she is part of that future she envisioned more than 23 years ago. The Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation is involved in myriad projects in Africa intended to help historically disadvantaged people get a chance to realize their human potential on a continent known mostly for squalor and conflict.
Changing both the reality of Africa and the perception of its failed progress are important to Clinton, a self-proclaimed child of advantage raised by wildly successful and famous parents.
She credits both with helping her better understand the world, quoting her father's maxim that "intelligence is equally distributed; opportunity and resources aren't," while citing travels around the world with her mother -- former U.S. Sen. and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- that always included time with women and girls in far-flung places such as Zimbabwe.
"I always got to meet girls who very much were my age and very much were experiencing different things and very similar things that I was experiencing in the United States," she said, describing encounters that helped her realize "how many more advantages I had by being born in late-20th century America."
It resulted in a simple but profound question that inspires her today: "How could I not have thought about what I could do in my life to try to close the gaps that happened just by accident of where I was born?"
The answer is reflected in her work with the foundation and its various initiatives focused on health care, economic empowerment, climate change and other issues.
This week's trip begins in Malawi, where Clinton and her father will meet with President Joyce Banda and tour a Clinton Health Access Initiative clinic to visit HIV-infected patients being helped by access to less-expensive medicine.
Other stops include Zambia, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Rwanda and South Africa, a regular destination on her African travels. She spent time there in 1997 with her mother on a trip that preceded her father's historic visit a year later as the first sitting U.S. president to go to the country.
Clinton and her father also visited South Africa last year as part of a similar African swing to visit foundation sites there and in Mozambique, Rwanda and Uganda.
Many of the projects result from work of the Clinton Global Initiative, a kind of facilitating arm of the foundation that brings together philanthropists, corporations and others seeking to do good with projects and partners that need help.
"One of the things that we see over and over again is that so often the right constituent parts aren't really that far from one another," she said. "They're just not connected or organized."
So far, CGI members have committed to projects and other participation in Africa worth $27.8 billion, more than a third of the initiative's total member commitment worth $73 billion.
Clinton will visit one of the CGI projects on Friday in Zambia, where the U.S.-based Starkey Hearing Foundation will work with local authorities to fit hearing aids for people who need them.
It is part of the Starkey foundation's plan to "to give 1 million people hearing aids this decade to restore the gift of hearing, and to make a difference in people's lives in new ways," according to its website.
"It's not giving a gift of hearing for a moment; it's giving the gift of hearing for a lifetime," Clinton said of the project, which also supplies batteries and teaches people how to use and maintain the devices to "totally transform the trajectory" of their lives.
For much of the work of the foundation and the initiatives, success generally means that at some point, their help no longer will be needed, Clinton explained.
For example, a coffee roasting plant in Rwanda, which she and her father will visit with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, will eventually process 3,000 tons a day to create 40 jobs while boosting the income of tens of thousands of farmers, according to the Clinton Development Initiative website.
Given the nation's troubled history, with the 1994 genocide still resonant as a symbol of African upheaval and misery, the coffee plant represents "the next chapter in what's been really exciting to watch unfold in Rwanda," Clinton said.

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/31/world/africa/clinton-africa/index.html


By looking at Clinton to promote and improve the location of Africa, we think about ourselves in what mind and shape we should do to volunteer.
And we know that this is more than just a simple volunteer. I hope all of you can donate your abilities and work together in our MANNAM volunteer association and give love to each other.

[MANNAM World News] Obama to Commemorate 60th Anniversary of Korean War Armistice

President Obama will commemorate the 60 year anniversary of the Korean War armistice today, marking the end of hostilities on the peninsula.
Communist North Korea invaded South Korea with 135,000 troops on June 25, 1950, and three years later with more than 2.5 million dead, including more than more than 36,000 Americans who died in combat, the war ended.
Joined by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Obama will lay a wreath at the memorial in Washington, D.C.
On Thursday, Obama issued a declaration making today National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, noting that the conflict “defined a generation and decided the fate of a nation.”
“We remember ordinary men and women who showed extraordinary courage through 3 long years of war, fighting far from home to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met,” Obama said in his proclamation. “This anniversary marks the end of a war. But it also commemorates the beginning of a long and prosperous peace.”
It is often referred to as the “Forgotten War,” because fighting half a world away garnered little domestic attention at the time. But the remnants of the conflict are still felt today. North Korea and South Korea remain divided, and there is still no peace treaty between the two countries.
According to the Department of Veteran’s Affairs there are still 2 million living veterans of that war.
“No monument will ever be worthy of their service, and no memorial will fully heal the ache of their sacrifice,” Obama said in the proclamation. “But as a grateful nation, we must honor them — not just with words, but with deeds.”

source: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/07/obama-commemorates-60-years-after-korean-wars-end/


The divided Koreas remain technically at war since an armistice stopped fighting between them in 1953. The Korean War is a national tragedy (for our people). The division of the Korean Peninsula became permanent after the Korean War.  And this year is the 60th anniversary of the Korean War.
We still was not a united Korea. I hope that the day of reunification would come as soon as possible.
To do that, I work hard with MANNAM Volunteer Association for the unification of the Korean Peninsula. Also, we are of one mind  Man Hee Lee, peace advocate who struggled for the world peace.

[MANNAM World News] South Africa celebrated Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday on Thursday

Well-wishers carry a large banner of Nelson Mandela as they march up and down outside the gates of the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in Pretoria, South Africa Thursday, July 18, 2013. South Africa celebrated Nelson Mandela's 95th birthday on Thursday, a milestone capped by news that the former president's health was improving after fears that he was close to death during ongoing hospital treatment. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

source: http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=104&oid=077&aid=0002676520


Nelson Mandela is an indispensable peace maker for us. He was committed to the cause of world peace. He try hard to keep peace. We need to some peace maker(peace leader) like him.
The need for some peace maker is of greater importance today than ever before for the world peace.
MANNAM Chairman, Man Hee Lee peace maker(peace leader) also is working diligently towards maintaining real peace throughout the world.
I think that he is a person for world peace like Nelson Mandela.
MANNAM Volunteer Association  also try to ensure peace. I'm also enjoying volunteer work with the MANNAM Volunteer Association.
War should be abolished for the peace of human beings. Why don't we work hard for world peace ?

[MANNAM World News] Syria Conflict Kills Over 5,000 Children: 'Pray For Syria,' Says Girl Survivor

The lives of more than 5,000 children may have been lost to the civil war in Syria, according to recent reports, and now Open Doors USA has brought to international attention the testimonies of two young girls living in fear in the country where violence and killings have become almost a part of daily life for the nation's most innocent victims.
"It's scary. We hear a lot of bad stories about what is happening around us. On the streets there are soldiers everywhere. We see smoke from fighting and hear bombings all the time," said 13-year-old Youmna, a Christian girl who lives in Damascus, Syria with her sister, 10-year-old Nashita, according to Open Doors USA.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims that around 100,000 people have been killed in the civil war between government forces and rebels, and among those numbers are 5,000 children under the age of 16.
"One day I was going to school by bus when we heard a shooting nearby," said Youmna. "So we all dived down, hiding under our seats, waiting until the shooting was over. Another day when we were at school there was an airplane very close by, threatening to bomb our school. We all had to go into the basement and stay away from the glass."
"My classmates and I were all very scared. Kids around me were crying and shouting at the teachers because they were so afraid. Some called their fathers crying to them that they wanted to go home," Nashita added.
The United Nations office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict can verify the reports of children being killed. To make matters worse, the children are sometimes being used as props of the war, and often 10-year-old boys are being used as combatants or porters.

"Syrian children are killed or injured in indiscriminate bombings, shot by snipers, used as human shields or victims of terror attacks," the organization said.
U.N. reports indicate that 1.3 million Syrian refugees have fled to neighboring countries and 4.2 million persons are displaced within Syria, with over half being children.
The two sisters are asking believers all across the globe to pray for their country and the victims of war.
"Please pray for the kids in Syria....that God will stop the bad things that are happening. Pray for the kids that have no food and the kids that lost their houses because of the war. Pray that God will free Syria from this evil and that all the people can come back. And also pray for my friend Lunah, so we can play together again," said Nashita.
"Please heed the requests of Youmna and Nashita to pray for Syria, especially for the innocent victims such as the young children," said Open Doors USA spokesman Jerry Dykstra. "Not only do the children face the daily violence of civil war, but they are also the targets of persecution, including kidnapping, because they are Christians."
Syria is No. 11 on the Open Doors 2013 World Watch List of the worst persecutors of Christians.
Note: The names of the sisters were changed for their protection.

source: http://global.christianpost.com/news/syria-conflict-kills-over-5000-children-pray-for-syria-says-girl-survivor-100219/

Many children's faces are filled with smiles, hopes, and dreams of a better future. On the contrary, that children's suffer from war.
we need to work for the world peace for young children.

[MANNAM World News] SOUTH AFRICA MANDELA HOSPITAL

SOUTH AFRICA MANDELA HOSPITAL
School children from St Mary's College carry a poster for ill Nelson Mandela outside the Mediclinic Heart Hospital where former President Nelson Mandela remains, Pretoria, South Africa, 15 July 2013. Nelson Mandela remains in a Pretoria hospital in a critical but stable condition. EPA/KIM LUDBROOK

source: http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=104&oid=091&aid=0003917665


Born on July 18, 1918 in South Africa, Nelson Mandela was the President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He played a pivotal role for black people in his country getting equal rights.
He is still the most admired man on the planet. He has retired from active politics but remains a concerned and influential citizen of the New South Africa. We hope that he will best of luck for a speedy recovery. 
It is worth emulating his spirit who worked hard to make the world a peaceful place.

[MANNAM World News] Asiana Airlines flight crash-lands at San Francisco airport

 (6th LD) Two killed in Asiana jet crash at San Francisco airport 

Asiana plane crash

Shown is Asiana Airlines's Boeing 777 taken on July 7, 2013,
 one day after its crash.
The plane carrying 291 passengers and 16 crew members
crash landed at San Francisco International Airport,
leaving two killed and 182 others injured. (Yonhap)

SAN FRANCISCO/SEOUL, July 6 (Yonhap) -- An Asiana Airlines passenger jet carrying 307 people crashed upon landing at San Francisco International Airport Saturday, killing two Chinese people and injuring dozens of others on board, officials said.
 The Boeing 777 plane, which departed from Shanghai, China and stopped over at Incheon International Airport west of Seoul, was carrying 291 passengers and 16 crew members, according to the airliner, which is South Korea's second largest.


Source: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news/2013/07/07/0200000000AEN20130707002451315.HTML

I was sorry to hear about the bad news.
Sadly enough, two killed in asiana jet crash at san francisco airport.
Also, many people wre ingured.
MANNAM all lament their death.
I heard injured people arrive in Korea today.
I hope they may well be treated. Get well soon!
Let's all pray those people.

[MANNAM Wolrd News] Volunteers clean up over 600kg of beach trash from Brunei beach

By Daniel Wood
 The Brunei Times/Asia News Network
 Monday, Jul 01, 2013  

MUARA - A total of 635.5kg of rubbish was collected in a span of almost two hours during a clean-up of Tungku Beach yesterday dubbed by organisers as their largest campaign of the year.
Organised by the Beach Bunch, 820 volunteers comprising family and friends from various schools and organisations as well as members of the public combed the littered beach, picking up garbage for disposal and recycling for the event, in conjunction with World Environment Day which fell on June 5.
Closely aligning to its motto of "Keeping our beaches clean and enjoyable", the Beach Bunch said that the event's main aim was to see people from all backgrounds come together to ensure a cleaner, greener and brighter outlook for themselves and future generations.
Running up to the morning activity, the Beach Bunch had been expecting a record turnout, with more than 1,600 participants registering online. Nevertheless, the final number was a huge encouragement, almost equalling the total of 847 volunteers achieved at the same event last year.
"Some of the organisations who had planned to come today had to miss it due to unforseen circumstances. Most importantly, we still managed to have fun while cleaning up the entire beach," said Beach Bunch President, Rizan Latif.
Kicking off at 7.30am, volunteers split up into three camps, covering an area of 4.5 sq kms. Two Beach Bunch members led each camp, supported by volunteers from Sultan Saiful Rijal Technical College (MTSSR).
The teams carried all the trash they picked up at collection centres at each camp, where it was then segregated into general trash for disposal and plastic for recycling. Out of the total amount of rubbish collected, 152.5kg was recyclable plastic.

Source: http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20130701-433843.html


Even though something is not planned, gathering in the same place and having one mind and volunteering is the true volunteer. By just one single person can't have or achieve the effect they wan. However if we gather together and give power each other we will receive the effect we want.
MANNAM Volunteer Association also need having one mind.
The true volunteer makes the world very beautiful.
Let's make the world a better place by helping and loving each other! With MANNAM Volunteer!

[MANNAM World News] 6.25 (LEAD) Korean War veterans honored at official anniversary event

By Lee Chi-dong
 WASHINGTON, June 25 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's top envoy to the United States on Tuesday emphasized the importance of further developing the alliance between the two nations based on their achievements over the past six decades.
   Delivering a speech at a formal ceremony to mark the 63rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War, Amb. Ahn Ho-young said what South Korea has done over the last 60 years economically and politically would have not been possible without the mutual security ties.
   He attached special meaning to this year's event, noting 2013 marks the 60th anniversary of the birth of the Seoul-Washington alliance with the armistice ending the three-year conflict.
   "I think on the 60th anniversary, of course, we celebrate all the achievements we have made, but what is even more important is to look ahead to the coming 60 years and beyond of the relationship between Korea and the United States," he said at the wreath-laying event at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Korean War veterans attend a formal ceremony in Washington to mark
the 63rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War. (Yonhap)

More than 150 Korean War veterans and government officials gathered for the ceremony, including Army Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti, nominated to become the top commander of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia David Helvey, and retired Lt. Gen. William Maloney, who served as a platoon leader in the Korean War.
   Ahn thanked Korean War veterans for their sacrifice.
   "Without your sacrifice 60 years ago, I wouldn't be here this morning," he said.
   Former USFK commander Gen. Walter Sharp also emphasized that their sacrifice has born "a lot of fruit" that has differentiated the South from the North.
   "I think everyone understands how the economics have moved forward but we all also must remember (South) Korea also stands on freedom, on human rights on dignity and that's such a difference, what is in South Korea and what is in North Korea," said Sharp, honorary chairman of the Pentagon's 60th Anniversary Korea War Commemoration Committee. "That would not have happened without sacrifices veterans did 60 years ago."
   From 2008 until 2011, Sharp headed the 28,500-strong American troops stationed in South Korea. His father was a Korean War veteran.
   In a separate message to the Asan Washington Forum 2013 on South Korea-U.S. ties, meanwhile, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon said their alliance is the "linchpin" of peace and security on the peninsula.
   "The alliance is now positioned to address common challenges, build peace and cooperation in Northeast Asia, and address global challenges as we welcome the Republic of Korea's leadership and active engagement on the world stage," the outgoing top security aide to President Barack Obama said.
   He affirmed Washington's commitment to the defense of the South against the North's military threats.
   "No discussion of the alliance is complete without reinforcing the U.S. commitment to the security of the Republic of Korea," added Donilon, who will be succeeded by Susan Rice, ambassador to the United Nations.
   According to the U.S. government, 36,574 American troops were killed and 103,284 others wounded in the war.
   The Korean War ended in a ceasefire, not a formal peace treaty, leaving the two Koreas technically at war.
   leechidong@gmail.com
(END)
Source: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/06/26/39/0301000000AEN20130626000300315F.HTML


 Before I knew it today is   63rd anniversary of the outbreak of the Korean War.
 The two Koreas fought the 1950-53 Korean War that ended in a cease-fire, not a peace treaty, leaving the sides still technically at war and their border one of the world's most heavily fortified.
There are no plans for reunification between the North and South just yet.
As one of the Republic of Korea,  I'm still hopeful that peace will someday be achieved in Korea. surely, many MANNAM Volunteer members are hopeful that peace comes true.
When we do for peace campaign, volunteer work etc. , the time will come soon when we shall live peacefully in the unified fatherland.

[MANNAM World News] 6.25 Korean War -(Yonhap Interview) Korean War veteran reminds people of 'forgotten war'

By Kim Eun-jung
 SEOUL, June 21 (Yonhap) - Larry Kinard's Korean War memories come back to him with a vivid clarity, which makes him shudder at the recollection of being so close to death.
   One of them is of an incident that took place in 1952, three years after he became a U.S. Army second lieutenant to serve in the 3rd Infantry Division on the front-line. He was 22.
   Looking out at the enemy territory over the Imjin River, an artillery shell exploded just 22 meters in front of a four-member observation team.
   "It literally blew us out of the bunker's back. Nobody was killed, but we suffered from concussion and shock for several days," Kinard, now 84 and the president of the Korean War Veterans Association (KWVA), said in an interview with Yonhap News Agency.

Larry Kinard, the president of the Korean War Veterans Association,
speaks during a lecture at the Korea Military Academy in Seoul on June 21, 2013. (Yonhap)

   "There were several experiences where I came close to dying. When it comes that close to death, you remember it."

The KWVA president living in Forth Worth, Texas visited Seoul as part of a veterans' event hosted by the Ministry of the Patriots and Veterans Affairs as South Korea commemorates the 60th anniversary of signing the Armistice Agreement that ended hostilities.
   The three-year war came to a halt in 1953, with a cease-fire agreement establishing a demilitarized zone roughly running along the 38th parallel that separated the two Koreas. Still today, there is no peace treaty and tensions continue with Pyongyang's threats of missile attacks and nuclear war.
   Although the Korean War has stuck with Kinard and other veterans for their entire lives, the war has been overshadowed in the public consciousness following many subsequent American military conflicts in recent decades.
   As the number of survivors with first-hand accounts of the war is dwindling -- with the youngest now nearing 80 -- Kinard decided to devote the rest of his life to tell stories of the "forgotten war" through an education program called "Tell America."
   Since 2005, the energetic veteran has traveled across the U.S. to meet people and students to tell what happened 60 years ago on the Korean Peninsula, and distributed booklets and brochures to libraries.
   Kinard stressed the education program is important because people should learn from history so as not to make the same mistakes in the future.
   "We tell the students that war is not fun," he said. "Some of what they see in movies and on TV is not real. War is terrible."
   If it is so terrible, why do people go to war?
   "Sometimes, you have to fight a war to defend freedom you have. I try to get them to understand what the real price of freedom is," he added.
   While the veteran's program was initially designed to raise awareness among students, Kinard discovered many teachers had very little knowledge of the war. So, he decided to expand the program from schools to churches and other organizations across America to give people the opportunity to talk with veterans and stimulate their curiosity.
   The great-grandfather with three children says the young generation should not forget where today's prosperity came from.
   "We stress to these children what it means to be a patriotic American, what it meant to us to fight for the freedom of the Korean people," he said. "We teach them that freedom is not free and many have paid a huge price for the freedom we enjoy today."
   The Korean War VA president called for more revisiting programs for survivors to make them in close contact and remember what they had sacrificed and contributed.
   "By meeting, living and fighting with these soldiers from other countries, we all became closer and learned first-hand what it truly means to be comrades-in-arms," Kinard said. "Through this togetherness, this comrade-in-arms personal contact, the entire world has become smaller and all of us have benefited as we learned each other's culture, language, history and traditions."
   The old veteran was particularly proud of the economic and political progress of South Korea, which has risen from the destruction of war to one of the leading economies, saying Koreans "accomplished a miracle."
   "I hope you know that the U.S. Korean War veterans are extremely proud of the Korean people and their accomplishments over the last 60 years," he said.
   Kinard, however, expressed regret that Korea still remains divided and hoped peace will come someday.
   "It's sad. I wish Korea to be reunified, but at this point, it seems to be almost impossible with standoffs from both sides," Kinard said. "Being strong is the best thing," he said, adding 28,500 American troops stationed in South Korea should remain in the country as a way to deter North Korea aggression.
   Though the last thing he wants is war, the white-hair veteran demonstrated his last-remaining fighting spirit to preserve the Korean War legacy.

   "Should war ever come to the Korean Peninsula again," he said, "we will be there, as we were in the 50s -- comrades-in-arms, fighting side by side with you."

Source: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2013/06/21/84/0301000000AEN20130621006800315F.HTML


The Korean War was a bloody battle of brother against brother.
It tooks the lives of some 5 million men and women.
The divided Koreas remain technically at war since an armistice stopped fighting between them in 1953.
It is regrettable that many soldiers have to be parted from family by war and civilians died.
Also, It’s a sad fact that many of those killed were children.
I hope that the day of reunification would come as soon as possible.
All humankind must exert every effort for peace.
MANNAM and MIYC memvers work for the world peace.
"We need to stick together!"
World peace is the greatest prize of all.

[MANNAM World News] 'Standing man' inspires Turkish protesters in Istanbul

Erdem Gunduz (C) is seen here standing on the square early on Tuesday

 

A Turkish protester dubbed the "standing man" has led a vigil on Istanbul's Taksim Square days after the authorities evicted demonstrators.

Performance artist Erdem Gunduz stood silently for eight hours, facing a portrait of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern, secular Turkey.

Hundreds of others joined him in the square, which was reopened on Monday, before being dispersed by police.

Mr Gunduz later told the BBC he had wanted to take a symbolic stand.

Two leading trade unions held rallies and a one-day strike in defiance of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday.

Mr Gunduz appeared in the square at around 18:00 (15:00 GMT) on Monday and remained there until 02:00 when police moved in.

Ten people who refused to be moved on were detained.

"There are many, many young people on the streets," Mr Gunduz told the BBC.

"I'm nothing... The idea is important: why people resist the government. The government doesn't want to understand, didn't try to understand why people are on the streets. This is really silent resistance. I hope people stop and think 'what happened there?'"

His protest quickly captured the imagination of the protest movement. The hash tag "duranadam" ("standing man") dominated Turkish-language Twitter on Tuesday morning.

Mr Gunduz's protest contrasts sharply with the violent clashes of recent weeks, in which some 5,000 people have been injured and at least four have died.

The protests began on 28 May against a plan to redevelop Istanbul's Gezi Park, on the city's central Taksim Square, but it snowballed into nationwide anti-government protests after the perceived high-handed response of the authorities under their three-term prime minister, Mr Erdogan.

 

 

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22949632

 

 

'Chapuller'

 

This is newly coined word made by Turkish protesters. It means that the man who is fighting for justice against the odds.

 

These things have a way of turning around.

I wish them a speedy coming stable.

MANNAM Volunteer members also fear for their safety.

We are looking forward to having finish all this situation.

 I do hope they can reach a compromise. Also, We would like World Peace!

 

[MANNAM World News] North Korea offers chance for talks with United States

North Korea has said it wants to have high-level talks with the United States in a bid to ease tension in the region.
The move comes just days after the North called off plans for talks with South Korea, intended to mend ties between the two countries. The meeting would have been the first in more than two years.
North Korea blamed the cancellation on the South for scuttling discussions.
North Korea says Washington can pick the date and place for talks and the two sides can discuss a range of issues. However it added that no preconditions should be attached.
Earlier this year, North Korea threatened nuclear and
 missile strikes against South Korea and the United States after
 it was hit with U.N. sanctions following a nuclear weapons
 test.
Pyongyang says it will be happy to discuss disarmament but the world, including its southern neighbor, should also be denuclearised.
It also wants the US to sign a peace treaty formally ending the 1950-53 Korean War that divided the two Koreas.

Source: http://www.euronews.com/2013/06/16/north-korea-offers-chance-for-talks-with-united-states/

The need for a mutuality of understanding between the nations of the world is of greater importance today than ever before for the world peace.
An opportunity that I hope It will have good new  in Korea, too, further more there will be peace all over the globe.
World peace is the greatest prize of all.
I believe such efforts will eventually lead to a peaceful reunification of the South and the North.
Why don't we work for peace together through MANNAM Volunteer Association and learn about the importance of world peace?