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The Moonies and the Military Industrial Complex

△ Pictured: Japanese members with UC-produced weapons During the Vietnam War, the Unification Church was accused of supporting the South Vietnamese government and providing funding and resources to the South Vietnamese military.

In the 1980s, the church was reported to have provided support for the Contras in Nicaragua, a right-wing guerrilla group that was involved in the armed conflict against the Sandinista government.

In the 1990s, the church was linked to the Croatian military during the Balkan Wars, providing funding and resources to the Croatian military during its conflict with the Serbs.

In the early 2000s, the church was reported to have provided support for the U.S.-led war in Iraq, including through its close ties to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies.

In the same time period, the Unification Church was also linked to the war in Afghanistan, providing support to the U.S.-led coalition and the Afghan government.

These are just a few examples of the Unification Church's support for military interventions, but there may be other instances that have not been publicly documented.

The Moonie have a complex relationship with the military-industrial complex and its support for military interventions and wars of aggression.

This global religious organization that operates in many countries around the world has been criticized for its close ties to political and economic elites, as well as its support for right-wing political movements and causes.

One aspect of this relationship is the Unification Church's connection to the military-industrial complex. The church has been accused of providing support for military interventions and wars of aggression, including through its funding of right-wing political organizations and its close ties to military and intelligence agencies.

Critics argue that the Unification Church's support for military interventions is rooted in its conservative political ideology, which places a strong emphasis on national security and the use of military force to maintain stability and order. The church has also been accused of promoting militarism and aggression through its support for right-wing political movements and its involvement in military training programs.

The Unification Church's close ties to the military-industrial complex and its support for military interventions also raise concerns about the church's potential influence on government policies and its role in shaping global security and foreign policy. This relationship may also be indicative of a broader trend of religious organizations becoming involved in military and political affairs, often in ways that reinforce existing power structures and perpetuate violence and aggression.

The church has been criticized for its close ties to the military-industrial complex, including its relationship with weapons manufacturers and its involvement in military contracting. 

The Unification Church has manufactured weapons for imperialist powers since at least the 1960s under Tongil Heavy Industries. 

S&T Motiv is a South Korean technology company that provides a range of products and services, including military equipment and technology. The company is also a subsidiary of the Tongil Group, a Unification Church-owned business group (chaebol).  S&T Motiv is known for its expertise in developing and producing advanced military technology, including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), and other military equipment. The company has a strong presence in the South Korean market and is a major supplier of military equipment to the South Korean government and to other governments, including the Philippines. S&T Motiv weapons have been used by the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police, specifically units assigned to combat communist insurgents. 

Unification Church-associated businesses and organizations continue to make millions every year from the US government and military.

These connections raise questions about the influence of the military-industrial complex on the church's political and economic activities, as well as the potential for conflicts of interest and the exploitation of vulnerable communities.

The Unification Church's support for military interventions and wars of aggression raises serious concerns about the church's political and ideological motivations, as well as its impact on local communities and global peace and stability. Further research is needed to better understand the church's relationship with the military-industrial complex and its involvement in military conflicts.

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Business engine of a global faith (2010)

[The faces inside KOREA'S CONGLOMERATES]

▲ Yongpyong Resort in Pyongchang, Gangwon is one of Tongil Group's key sources of revenue. The Winter Olympics were held at the venue. Provided by the group.

Once near dissolution, Tongil Group has been resurrected to the cusp of profitability by new CEO Moon Kook-jin.

[Moon Kook-jin was fired in about 2013 by Hak Ja Han.]

JoongAng Daily April 12, 2010

Tongil, or unification in Korean, means different things to different people.

Some associate it with the reunification of the peninsula, while others might think of Tongilgyo, the Unification Church, a powerful religious sect whose believers number at least three million worldwide. While even most Americans have probably heard of the Unification Church founded by Reverend Moon Sun-myung, chances are not many know Tongil Group, the Unification Church's business empire in Korea whose ventures stretch from manufacturing to tourism and newspaper publishing.

For instance, Yongpyong Resort in Pyeong-chang County, Gangwon, frequented by many Koreans especially during the skiing season, is one of the group's key businesses.

Tongil Group was founded by Reverend Moon on Oct. 4, 1963, nine years after he proclaimed himself the messiah and officially established the Unification Church in Seoul. The group started as a nonprofit whose gains were all to be pumped into the religious and educational activities of the church, and its core business back then was manufacturing, under affiliates that included Tongil Heavy Industries, Hankook Titanium and Ilsung Construction, among others.

In coming years, Tongil Group expanded into drugs, tourism and publishing. In 1971, it established Ilhwa, which makes pharmaceuticals, ginseng tea and the famous barley drink called McCol. In 1985, Tongil established Seil Travel, and in 1988, the top 10 daily newspaper Segye Times (Segye Ilbo) launched. The group also strengthened its presence in manufacturing, setting up Ilshin Stone in 1971 and Tongil Industries Company, or TIC, in 1988.

Tongil Group was hit hard by the financial crisis that engulfed Asia in the late 1990s. In 1998, five of the group's affiliates – including Tongil Heavy Industries, which was its flagship affiliate at the time – went into receivership. Poor management led to deterioration in the following years, so much so that in 2004, the group was saddled with some 40.9 billion won ($36.6 million) in debt. Group officials today look back on that sober time and say the group came very close to dissolution.

"Tongil Group was founded to support the activities of the Unification Church, but in those years it was the other way around – business was so bad that Unification Church ended up supporting the work of Tongil Group," said Ryu In-yong, a Tongil public relations manager.

But a few key investments put an end to those dark days.

In 2000, Tongil established Sunwon Construction, and in 2003, it acquired Yongpyong Resort from Ssangyong Cement with the cash raised from selling the land under the Segye Times building in Yongsan, downtown Seoul. Yongpyong Resort is now one of the group's biggest sources of revenue.

But the real "resurrection" of Tongil Group came in January 2005 when Moon Kook-jin, the fourth son of Reverend Moon, was inaugurated as the new chairman. Like Reverend Moon's other sons, Kook-jin was educated in the United States, with a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of Miami. A hobby target shooter, he founded the U.S. arms manufacturer Kahr Arms in 1993. Today, the 40-year-old Moon has been trying to turn the debt-ridden Tongil Group into a viable conglomerate.

Coming into the post, Chairman Moon gave a frank assessment. "Survival itself will be the biggest challenge," he said, but Tongil "will never fail." As he predicted, in three years the company was able to rebound.

Its operating income improved from a loss of 40 billion won in 2006 to one of 6.2 billion won last year. Its percentage of debt to assets was also drastically reduced – from 767 percent in 2004 to 194 percent last year.

Tongil Group believes that the turnaround was possible because Moon put results, rationality and transparency above anything else, streamlining its businesses. He sold off losing companies, reducing the number of affiliates from 34 to 15.

The group's total assets stood at 1.75 trillion won last year, up 33 percent from 2004. The group is still mostly private, with Ilshin the only publicly traded affiliate. That company reported last month that although sales and operating profit had decreased, by 11 and 33 percent, respectively, it posted a record net profit of 1.9 billion won last year, up 228 percent from 2008.

Moon's streamlining efforts also shifted Tongil's key business from manufacturing to tourism and leisure, moving 70 percent of its assets into resorts and leaving just 18 percent in manufacturing and 6 percent in construction.

"I believe the resort business is something that can bring synergy with our religious activities," Moon said. "We use resorts for religion-related meetings, conferences and educational programs. Also, leisure activities at resorts can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of their religion or race.

The group's biggest current task, according to Tongil Group officials, is a project to build a world-class marine tourism and leisure complex in Yeosu, South Jeolla, to include golf courses, football fields, hotels and condominiums, by 2015. Worth some 1 trillion won, the project is spearheaded by Ilsang Ocean Development, a Tongil affiliate. The southern port city is set to host the Yeosu Expo in 2012.

Taking a closer look at Tongil affiliates and their CEOs, Ilhwa is led by Lee Sung-kyoon, who joined the company in 1978 and worked his way up through departments such as planning, pharmaceuticals and food.

At the helm of the Segye Times is Yoon Jeong-ro, who served as the vice president and secretary general of the Peace Unification Family Party, a political entity set up by the church that has been defunct since 2008.

Yongpyong Resort and Ilsang Ocean Development are both led by Jeong Chang-joo, who joined the Segye Times in 1998 as a planning office director.

Song Sang-yoon, a veteran of the industry, is CEO of Sunwon Construction, and Park In-sub, a Cornell graduate and son-in-law of Reverend Moon, operates Seil Travel.

Other units include stone materials supplier Ilshin Stone, metal-related products and technology manufacturer JC and auto-parts maker TIC.

Chairman Moon, in a recent interview with Forbes, said he has high hopes for TIC, and that he is proud the company produces axles for armored vehicles. TIC was established by merging several subsidiaries of Tongil Heavy Industries, which previously supplied hardware for the Korean armed forces.

Other units include building management company Seilo, helicopter operator Tongil Air Systems and agricultural company Pyongnong.

Through these entities, Tongil Group finances about 20 religious and educational institutions, including the Sun Moon University, Sunhwa Arts High School, music group the Little Angels and others.

But Tongil Group is not the only fiefdom in the Unification Church's business empire. It's not to be confused with Unification Church International, which is run by Kook-jin's older brother Hyun-jin and whose major businesses include The Washington Times and True World Foods in the U.S. as well as Marriott hotels and the Central City complex [now sold] in Korea.

The CEOs and their styles differ, but on the surface Tongil Group and UCI share the same goal – to support the Unification Church, with another brother, Hyung-jin – the youngest of Reverend Moon's 14 children – leading the congregation since he was appointed president of the church by his father in 2008.

By Kim Hyung-eun

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Moon owned shares in Central City sold for $925 million dollars

SOLD! Korean HQ in Seoul Sold Without Warning Given to Members

[Exclusive Report] Cheongpyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center. Claims have been made that hundreds of billions of won (hundreds of millions of dollars) were embezzled from Unification Church followers.

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Kook Jin Nim’s Resentment Powers the Sanctuary Church

It goes without saying that, while Hyung Jin Nim (H2) is the face of the Sanctuary Church, Kook Jin Nim is the power behind the SC. He provides the financial means (some from business, some apparently from gutting a nonprofit organization set up for another purpose), offered up his lavish property to serve as the “Palace” (the King’s, H2’s home), and by various accounts is a controlling force behind H2. (One Korean leader famously said: “There is no Hyung Jin Nim. There is only Kook Jin Nim.”)

What is the source of KJN’s resentment against his mother? We know of his penchant for resentment and internecine discord given the years-long sibling battle with older brother Hyun Jin Nim (H1), complete with broadcast talks equating his brother with Satan and one report of an alleged fistfight even before Hyun Jin Nim’s split from the church. But what of that with his mother, since he is the apparent power behind the denunciations of his mother and has been active in spreading rumors against his mother?

Though there may be deeper psychological roots, the conflict with his mother really surfaced publicly over control of the Tongil Foundation. Beginning in 2013, Kook Jin Nim was in a very public battle with True Mother over his control of the Tongil Foundation. She wanted him replaced. He was adamant to stay in position, and it became a board of directors fight, which he eventually lost. He was dismissed on March 24, 2014, from leadership of the Tongil Foundation.

Interestingly enough, some tied his removal to the large number of lawsuits he filed against his brother Hyun Jin Nim. Dong Woon Kim, former Tongil Heavy Industries Representative, was quoted as saying: “The most serious problem is that church donations are being wasted because of lawsuits. We believe that the core of this problem lies in chairman Kook Jin Moon’s destructive administration of the Tongil Foundation. He’s waging legal warfare in Korea and abroad through meaningless lawsuits and wasting donations. When the church loses in the Yeouido lawsuit, the damage will be enormous. The amount the church will have to pay in damages for delaying the construction will be an astronomical amount of money. Members calling for the chairman to step down is something without precedent and unimaginable in our church. Think how bad things must be for us to have to stand up like this.” Quote from Shin Dong A Magazine, May 2013.

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Reverend Moon Rises Above Ailing Businesses (1999)

By Don Kirk, International Herald Tribune Feb. 5, 1999

▲ Pictured: Reverend Sun Myung Moon addresses the Third International Ocean Challenge in Kodiak Alaska, September 9 through October 18, 1998. Peter Kim translates. (source: tparents.org)

The Reverend Sun Myung Moon, leader of the Unification Church, opened a "world culture and sports festival" Thursday night asking participants: "What happens to us when we die?" His temporal business empire in South Korea, meanwhile, was asking: How do we repay debts approaching $2 billion

Weakness emerged within the Tong Il group, a conglomerate whose name means "unification," as Mr. Moon toured South Korea over the past week drumming up support for his church and his companies.

"The Tong Il companies suffer from bad management," said Huh Man Jo, who is monitoring the restructuring efforts of Korea's chaebol, or conglomerates, for the government's newly formed financial supervisory service. "They relied too much on church donations. It was a kind of moral hazard."

Mr. Huh said the debts of the group's 16 companies exceed 2 trillion won ($1.7 billion).

Its four leading companies, which manufacture products ranging from ginseng tea to tank guns, were all bankrupt awaiting reorganization under court supervision, he said.

Mr. Moon appeared oblivious to his earthly problems Thursday night. Alexander Haig, a former secretary of state and White House chief of staff during Richard Nixon's presidency, introduced him as "a leading force for inter-religious dialogue and understanding between peoples of all backgrounds."

The closest Mr. Moon came to mentioning the companies that he founded in the 1960s as the basis for his worldwide ministry was when he told a rapt audience that "Earth is but a speck of dust."

The spirit world that people enter after death transcends time and space, Mr. Moon said, speaking in Korean after a six-course banquet. Interpreters translated into seven languages for an audience that included former Third World heads of state and ambassadors. "There are no factories there to produce food," Mr. Moon said. "There are no automobile factories. There is nothing like that."

In the real world, the Tong Il group's flagship Tong Il Heavy Industries Co., founded in 1962, has suffered the most of any of the companies in the group.

The factory, which produces motor vehicle transmissions, has had to lay off 40 percent of its or conglomerates, for the government.

2,000 workers as a result of sagging car sales in South Korea, said Seo Pyong Kyu, a manager in the group's financial planning department.

"There is a cash flow deficit," Mr. Seo said. "Production is very low."

Church donations, a traditional source of funding in hard times, "have helped but are very much limited," said Mr. Seo. "Maybe we can expect the Reverend Moon to help, but it is not certain."

Mr. Moon, who maintains a headquarters in New York but has been spending much of his time on a vast farm project in Brazil, focused throughout his speaking tour of South Korea on the theme of "family ethics and world peace," the topic of a three-day series of seminars sponsored by the church. The festival is scheduled to wind up Sunday with a mass wedding in which 40,000 couples will exchange vows in Seoul's Olympic Stadium in a ceremony broadcast worldwide by cable. As in previous mass weddings, Mr. Moon himself has personally selected many of the marriage partners flying in from throughout the world, from submitted photographs and brief biographies.

Periodically, however, the realities of South Korea's economic crisis intruded upon his national tour.

At stops on the way, workers who had lost their jobs staged demonstrations accusing Mr. Moon's lieutenants of illegally dismissing them without pay. During an appearance in Pusan, South Korea's largest port city, workers from Tong Il Oil Heavy Industries briefly threatened violence.

Mr. Moon did not talk directly to the workers, leaving negotiations to his lieutenants. The response from management was not sympathetic.

"They want to get money from the company," said Ahn Ho Yeol, vice president in charge of the Korean branch of its Youth Federation for World Peace. "We cannot make money. They did not work. We did not offer them money."

Mr. Moon opened his remarks Thursday night by calling for "the realization of a culture of love, a global culture of heart."

Pak Bo Hee, who co-founded The Washington Times with Mr. Moon, goes to North Korea on Monday to negotiate the rights to open a tourist service to the North and to join the celebration of the 57th birthday of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Feb. 16.

Tong Il Heavy Industries, meanwhile, survives on military contracts that it first obtained during the rule of Park Chung Hee, a former general who ruled South Korea for 18 years until his assassination in 1979. "We make rifles and cannon for tanks," said a company official. "The contract is going on."

Source: NY Times

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Two articles below shed light on the relationship between Moon and Alexander Haig, who in the article above called Moon “ a leading force for inter-religious dialogue and understanding between peoples of all backgrounds."

Excerpted from article: taken from a Facts and Details article n Sun Myung Moon

“After Moon’s release from a US prison after serving 13 months he was still welcomed by the great and good. At various times he met or received support from the British prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Edward Heath, ex-presidents Gerald Ford and George Bush Sr, Canadian ex-premier Brian Mulroney, US senators Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms, William Fulbright and Orrin Hatch, Reagan’s defence secretary Caspar Weinberger, the former Nato chief general Alexander Haig, former US education secretary William Bennett, Boston University president John Silber, Christian Coalition ex-chief Ralph Reed, and the rightwing Christian leader the Rev Jerry Falwell.

Excerpted from a paper: The Unificationist Funerary Tradition by Lukas Pokorny describes the seunghwa’s role and evolution in UC/FFWPU history

“[“Honoring a Legacy of Peace”] was held on 18 March 2010 in the New York UN headquarters, 37 “involving” the spirits of Alexander Haig (1924–2010), a general and Secretary of State under Ronald Reagan (1911–2004; p. 1981–1989); 38 former South Korean president and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kim Tae-jung 김대중/金大中 (1924–2009; p. 1998–2003); Hédi Annabi (1943–2010), the head of the UN Stabilisation Mission in Haiti, and some one-hundred of his staff, who died when the Port-au-Prince UN Headquarters collapsed during the Haiti Earthquake; former Costa Rican president Rodrigo Carazo Odio (1926–2009; p. 1978–82) called by Mun a Peace President (p’yŏnghwa’ŭi taet’ongnyŏng 평화의 대통령) for his role in the establishment of the University for Peace; former Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid (1940–2009; p. 1999–2001); former Icelandic prime minister Steingrímur Hermannsson (1928–2010), who hosted the 1986 Reykjavík Summit between Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1931); the Senegalese head of the Tijaniyyah Sufi order Hassan Cissé 1945–2008); and the Indian politician and diplomat Laxmi Mall Singhvi (1931–2007), whom Mun called an Ambassador of Reconciliation and Peace (hwahae’wa p’yŏnghwa’ŭi taesa 화해��� 평화의 대사). On 13 April 2010, the first of a corresponding series of events held in South Korea—the World Peace Leaders Memorial Unification Seunghwa Festival Commemoration Meeting (segye p’yŏnghwa chidoja ch’umo t’ongil sŭnghwa ch’ukche kinyŏm taehoe 세계평화지도자추모통일승화축제기념대회/世界平和指導者追慕統一昇華祝祭紀念大會)—was staged in Seoul. 39 There the Seunghwa Blessing was once again given to Haig, Kim, Annabi, Carazo Odio, and Wahid. Additional receivers were Douglas MacArthur (1880–1964); the former South Korean minister of labour Cho Ch’ŏl-gwŏn 조철권/趙澈權 (1929–2007); the former Nepalese prime minister Girija Prasad Koirala (1924–2010); the naval diver Han Chu-ho 한주호/韓主浩 (1958–2010), who died on a rescue mission for the Ch’ŏnan corvette which was scuppered by a North Korean torpedo in March 2010; 40 and, surprisingly, also the Unificationist elder Kim Wŏn-p’il 김원필/金元弼 (1928–2010), who had already obtained a World Seunghwa Ceremony a few days prior.

Excerpted from article: The below excerpt is from a Forbes article ‘Reaching for the Stars’ by Toni Fitzgerald that reveals that Paul Rogers, a professional Moonie, was able to make profit with Moon-associated businesses during the South Korean financial crisis. Rogers is known to have had strong business relationships with notable UC leaders, such as both Kwak and Pak. 

In the late 1990s, the darkest days of South Korea’s financial crisis, operators such as Paul Rogers of Lehman Brothers were parachuting in to pick through the bargains. But amid all the moneylosing units being shed by the country’s conglomerates, what caught his eye was something that wasn’t for sale: a vacant 12-acre lot. It was in the heart of Yeouido, the island in the Han River that serves as Seoul’s financial and broadcasting district.

Owned by Reverend Moon Song-myung’s Unification Church Foundation, the giant lot had sat empty for three decades. Best known internationally for its cultish practices and its members, called Moonies, the church is also a business empire with interests ranging from media properties to North Korean industrial ventures. And like other Korean conglomerates, it needed money. “Investment banks were making a quick buck from acquiring and flipping distressed assets,” says Rogers, then Lehman’s head of structured finance for Asia. “I saw a much bigger opportunity: developing whole city blocks and making an impact on Asian cities which are sorely in need of iconic but commercially successful projects.”

Excerpt from article: Excerpted from Joongang Daily's 2010 article on Kook Jin Moon, 'Business Engine Of A Global Faith' by Kim Hyung-eun

Chairman [Kook Jin Moon] Moon, in a recent interview with Forbes, said he has high hopes for TIC, and that he is proud the company produces axles for armored vehicles. TIC was established by merging several subsidiaries of Tongil Heavy Industries, which previously supplied hardware for the Korean armed forces.

Other units include building management company Seilo, helicopter operator Tongil Air Systems and agricultural company Pyeongnong.

Through these entities, Tongil Group finances about 20 religious and educational institutions, including the Sun Moon University, Sunhwa Arts High School, music group the Little Angels and others.

But Tongil Group is not the only fiefdom in the Unification Church's business empire. It's not to be confused with Unification Church International, which is run by Kook-jin's older brother Hyun-jin and whose major businesses include the The Washington Times and True World Foods in the U.S. as well as Marriott hotels and the Central City complex in Korea.

Video: A 1 minute clip from the Japanese news of a Japanese UC service in 1998 where a church leader begged and guilted members to make a donation. This was a year after the South Korean financial crash and UC families in Japan were forced to make a $16,000 donation. This was during Japan’s decade(s) of economic stagnation. 

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Full article from June 23, 2015 - Foreign arms firms considering manufacturing in Philippines: official

MANILA (Reuters) - Weapons and munitions manufacturers from Canada, the United States, South Korea and South Africa are considering setting up operations in the Philippines once its first defense economic zone is launched, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

Rheinmetall Denel Munition of South Africa and a unit of South Korea’s S&T Holdings Co. top the list of defense companies looking to lease land in the Southeast Asian country, said Roger Gamban, chief of the state agency overseeing the country’s weapons and munitions output.

U.S.-based Colt’s Manufacturing Co and Canada’s Waterbury Farrel are also considering manufacturing in the Philippines, he told Reuters.

The move to launch a defense economic zone in the northwest Bataan province by August comes as Manila has become increasingly uneasy about China’s assertiveness in the South China Sea.

Under President Benigno Aquino, the Philippine government has embarked on a five-year, 75 billion-pesos ($1.68 billion) modernization program to improve its capability to defend its maritime borders.

The South Korean company has firmed up a proposal for a 2 billion pesos ($44 million) firearms manufacturing plant in the defense zone, Gamban said. Waterbury plans to set up a 2-billion-peso facility in the country, he said.

All four firms did not immediately respond to emails or calls by Reuters.

The Philippines currently produces munitions only for small caliber firearms, and imports all its medium and large caliber ammunitions. By getting foreign firms to produce munitions in the country, the government will cut short its procurement process and create jobs, Gamban said.

($1 = 45.13 Philippine pesos)

▲ Former fascist president of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte

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South Korean dealer to set up firearms production in PH

A South Korean arms dealer apparently made a mark on President Rodrigo Duterte that it was the first booth he visited at the 3rd Asian Defense, Security and Crisis Management Exhibition and Conference (ADAS) 2018 in Pasay City on Wednesday night.

S & T Motiv Co., Ltd took part in the biennial defense expo held at the World Trade Center in Pasay City, alongside its new partner in the Philippines, the United Defense Manufacturing Corp. (UDMC).

According to S & T Motiv president and chief executive officer Kijoon Yu, he first met Mr. Duterte in June when the President visited South Korea and the firearms manufacturer, and the Korean Ministry of National Defense conducted a presentation of the company and its products.

Yu told the Inquirer on Thursday that he was even able to take a selfie with Duterte.  He noted that when the President walked to their booth, they were the only company with whom he took pictures with.

Gene Cariño, UDMC chairman and CEO, said that when Yu discussed the joint venture agreement between S&T Motiv and UDMC which was signed on Tuesday, “He was very happy. He was very pleased with the business model of producing firearms here (in the Philippines). He said that’s what he wants.”

Yu said the joint venture agreement involves a comprehensive cooperation between the two companies for firearms manufacturing and supply, and possible expansion into the overseas markets.

“Based on the joint venture agreement we signed we will continue to participate in the commercial biddings to satisfy the continued demand of the Philippines for arms… and expand in the future in terms of research and development on existing platforms and the development of new weapons,” he explained.

He said that while there are plans to set up a manufacturing facility in the country, the UDMC facilities will have to do in the meantime.

The plans, Yu pointed out, depend on how much the joint venture is able to expand.

“I’m not sure if UDMC’s existing facilities are wide enough to accommodate our future goals so we will gradually expand, think of some other locations as well,” he said, adding that S&T Motiv is still in discussions with the government on a possible firearms manufacturing facility at the government arsenal in Bataan.

He said that S&T Motiv and UDMC previously supplied 7,000 K3 light machine guns and has taken part in the bidding process for a small quantity of K2C1 rifles.

Yu explained about doing business in the Philippines, “Demand is here so that we can enjoy our business here in the Philippines. We do have a really good relationship in the government level and civil level as well. We have very good technological basis and infrastructure. Demand is there and there’s a good infrastructure and business structure around it so we can take advantage of those environment here in the Philippines.”

For his part, Cariño said UDMC, through the joint venture, can produce the firearms locally particularly in Parañaque City, as part of its commitment to supply quality and price-competitive products.

ADAS 2018 will conclude on Friday and features government agencies and defense and security manufacturers from Israel, the United States, Ukraine, Russia, the Czech Republic, France, Singapore, Indonesia, and China, showcasing their products and services.

The Moonies and the Military Industrial Complex

UDMC partners with S&T Motiv to develop new technological firearms

South Korea-Philippines Military Ties in Focus With New Firearms Deal

Death Squads in the Philippines by Doug Cunningham

The UC should be held responsible for supplying weapons that killed young Filipino activists

U.S. Department of State Transcribing the Soviet News Program on Moon’s Ties to the Military-Industrial Complex

Thoughts on Dying for the People

Moon didn’t know about the guns! - Bo Hi Pak, really?

Moon and Guns in the 60s

Sasakawa and Kodama may have had another reason for their alliance with Moon

Moon goes hunting with rifle, but he did not want to defend his country

Unification Church business manufactured the Vulcan 20mm cannon Moon business, Tong-il Heavy Industries, manufactures machine guns

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An estimated 25,000 union members took part in the rally in downtown Seoul, causing massive traffic congestion and leading to some 80 noise complaints being filed with the police.

The union falls under the umbrella Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU).

"Our Constitution guarantees the freedom of assembly and demonstration, and as president, I, too, have respected this," Yoon said.

"However, guaranteeing the freedom of assembly and demonstration does not mean infringements on another person's freedoms and basic rights, or acts disturbing the public order, are justified."

Yoon said the previous administration effectively abandoned its law enforcement duties with regard to illegal rallies and demonstrations, leading to intolerable levels of inconvenience for the people.

"It will be difficult for the people to tolerate the actions of the KCTU during the rally that infringed on people's freedoms and basic rights, and disturbed the public order," he said. "Our government will not neglect or tolerate any form of illegal action."

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Korea: union offices raided - January 2023

The Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) had their offices raided twice this week, by the National Intelligence Service (NIS), alleging that members of KCTU violated the National Security Act.

No Letup in Strikes as KCTU Mobilizes - June 2003

The KCTU also held rallies in 18 regions all over the country, demanding the abolition of the National Education Information System (NEIS). The Korean Public Officials Union’s 500 members also held a rally at Jongmyo Park, demanding three labor rights—to organize, negotiate and to take group action.

The 25,000 day and night-shift employees of the Hyundai Motor Company Union each held a four-hour strike. They plan to hold another six-hour strike and to refuse overtime work for two hours on June 26.

The Ministry of Labor said that the two-day strike is predicted to cause a total of W73.6 billion in losses for Hyundai Motors. A Kia Motor factory in Hwaseong will suffer from W1.2 billion in losses, and Ssangyong Motor will suffer a W3 billion loss, for a total of W88 billion in damage to the three firms, the ministry said.

Furthermore, this strike is expected to affect large-scale manufacturers such as Doosan Heavy Industry, Tongil Heavy Industry, Hanjin Heavy Industry, and Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries. The labor unions of most of the companies are to participate in another KCTU general strike on July 2, which could sink the firms’ export plans.

Union Is Ensuring Its Own Demise - January 5, 2003

Workers of Tongil Heavy Industries Co. and Kohap Corporations, which are under court receivership and a debt restructuring program, respectively, are on strike, demanding pay raises and protesting restructuring.

Tongil/S&T?

Tongil was well known for its militant labor union, which led Choi to hesitate about an acquisition at first.

South Korea: More than 100 Trade Unionists Detained - October 2, 1998

Even in South Korea, Few Know Extent of Rev. Moon’s Empire (1988)

Kishida continues shallow MRA-style apologies for war crimes Catholic mass in South Korea demanding President Yoon to resign for “selling out Korea to Japan” The Imperial Ghost in the Neoliberal Machine (Figuring the CIA) - Koichiro Osaka

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Tongil/S&T?

How much does the Unification Church own S&T Motiv/Dynamics?

From a 2010 article on S&T's chairman Choi Pyung-Kyu, "A long ride in a fast machine"

The group’s main business has remained machinery and automotive components, but S&T has also advanced into renewable energy, motorcycles, defense, finance and leisure. Strategic mergers and acquisitions have been key to its success. Excluding S&Tc, the group’s main businesses including S&T Dynamics, S&T Daewoo and S&T Motors were all established through M&A deals. Choi has a natural talent for finance, and what he considers first in a potential merger is a company’s level of technology. S&T Dynamics, created after S&T acquired Tongil Heavy Industries in 2003, is one example of how much Choi values technical skill. Tongil was well known for its militant labor union, which led Choi to hesitate about an acquisition at first. However, Choi went ahead with the deal when he discovered the firm’s high technical capabilities. S&T Dynamics mainly produces automotive components, defense products, machine tools and castings. Its main customers are world-class corporations such as the U.S.-based Allison and Mercedes Benz Truck.

UC leaders, though, would continue to report on both S&T/Tongil through the 2000s, after Tongil was acquired by S&T. 

It’s apparent that the UC still has holdings in S&T/Tongil, making millions a year off their holdings in this company which makes billions off of the South Korean and Philippine governments. 

Does anybody have updated info on how much these companies come under the domain of the UC?

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Moon didn't know about the guns! - Bo Hi Pak, really?

A post originally written by "Don Diligent" on April 14, 2016

According to Bo Hi Pak: 

The Tong-il company…It has nothing to do with Reverend Moon’s teaching. In fact, he has no control over the situation. He does not even know what has been produced. However, I have checked and I can confirm that Tong-il has nothing to do with the production of M-16 rifles.

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Even in South Korea, Few Know Extent of Rev. Moon’s Empire (1988)

▲ From a recent Tongil Heavy Industries PR video

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1988/03/28/even-in-south-korea-few-know-extent-of-rev-moons-empire/9cff7bc3-2ad1-4d37-8d6f-8bac81934659/

Fred Hiatt Washington Post March 28, 1988

SEOUL -- In a skyscraper office high above the Han River, men in identical navy athletic jackets and women in tailored brown suits worked their way through piles of papers and files.

In one corner of the large room crowded with wooden desks, a portrait of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon sat on the floor, leaning against a wall. It was the only visible clue that this recently opened headquarters of the Tong Il Co. Ltd. was the control room of Moon's business empire in his native land, the flagship of Unification Church enterprises in South Korea.

Moon's business efforts in the United States, from fishing boats to newspapers to flower-selling in airports, have been objects of curiosity and extensive investigations. But even within South Korea, few people realize that the church also controls one of the largest and fastest-growing conglomerates in this nation's fast-growing economy.

The Tong Il Co. alone, one of more than 20 firms associated with the church in South Korea, employs more than 5,500 people and last year sold nearly $200 million worth of auto parts, machinery and weapons. Total sales for the seven largest firms in the conglomerate were estimated at $460 million, an increase of 40 percent over the previous year, according to business analysts here. The Tong Il group's products include machine guns, ginseng tea, axles and ornamental pagodas carved from stone.

Although it began as a rudimentary firm manufacturing shotguns and relying on church members' unpaid labor in 1959, it has evolved into a modern industrial combine that connects to the church only at the top, analysts say. The businesses remain shrouded in mystery, however, and one of the most puzzling mysteries concerns the source of their rapid growth. For while profits have been low or nonexistent for many years, new capital has continued to surge into the conglomerate, analysts said.

In the United States, many analysts have assumed that funds for the church's money-losing operations, such as The Washington Times newspaper, have been funneled from South Korea. But analysts in South Korea, where the church has invested vast sums in money-losing enterprises, have made the same assumption, in reverse. "Where is the money coming from?" one stock analyst asked. "Nobody knows."

"It's a mystery on the stock exchange," agreed Kim Goon Ho, an analyst at Coryo Research Institute. "Tong Il's future is bright, because the prospects for the auto parts and machine industries in Korea are bright. But the source of capital is a mystery."

Some analysts, such as former church member Lee Dae Bock, believe that much of the money comes from profits generated by church-related businesses in Japan. In particular, marble vases and religious objects produced by the Il Shin Co. in Korea are sold at high profit in Japan, Lee said.

The Japanese Federation of Bar Associations supported that claim in a report this month that accused businesses connected to the Unification Church of using unfair pressure tactics to sell such supposedly supernatural objects at extremely high prices. The lawyers' group condemned what it called an "unprecedented victimization of consumers."

A spokesman for the church in Tokyo, Hiroshi Sakazume, said the church has no connection to the sales businesses, adding that "worshipers have the freedom to choose their own occupation."

"We presume the existence of satans standing behind the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations," Sakazume said.

After rapid growth in the past several years, the conglomerate -- known as a chaebol in Korean -- plans to invest an additional 200 billion won ($264 million) for growth and modernization during the next three years, according to a recent analysis in Business Korea magazine. This investment comes despite a reported net profit of less than $10 million in 1986 and net losses in prior years, according to a report by the Management Efficiency Research Institute.

"The biggest puzzle for local businessmen and the general public was the seemingly unending source of such huge sums of money," Business Korea reported.

Church and company executives declined repeated requests for interviews, although one official agreed to answer selected written questions on condition he not be named. This account is based on those answers and on company publications and interviews with Korean businessmen, investment analysts, journalists and former church officials.

Church spokesman Sakazume, in Tokyo, also provided the following statement in written Japanese when asked for comment by The Washington Post:

"We have nothing to do with any kind of business, because the church is not engaged in profit making of any kind. Worshipers have the freedom to choose their occupation. There are some left-wing people in the Japan Federation of Bar Associations who deny the existence of God.

"We deeply regret that for their own reasons they persecute religions and infringe on the freedom of religion which is guaranteed by our constitution, using the mass media, such as the Asahi Shimbun {newspaper}, as a tool. We want to arouse media people's attention not to be used by them. We presume the existence of satans standing behind the Japan Federation of Bar Associations."

Moon founded the Unification Church in Korea more than 30 years ago. About one-fourth of South Korea's 42 million people are Christian. The church has had limited success in recruiting followers here, with outside observers estimating membership at about 20,000 and the church claiming 400,000.

Nonetheless, the church presence here has been considerable, and controversial. Its strongly anticommunist philosophy encouraged close working relations with the authoritarian and military regimes that ruled South Korea for much of the past three decades, and government aid has been instrumental in the church's business growth, according to former officials.

The church prospered especially under the late president Park Chung Hee, who ran South Korea from 1961 until his internal security chief assassinated him in 1979. The Park regime designated Tong Il as a weapons manufacturer, protected its auto parts business and worked closely with church anticommunist activities.

Lee Dae Bock, for example, who served as a church official for 20 years, was secretary general of the Seoul chapter of the Federation for Victory over Communism when he resigned in 1983. He said the church maintained close ties with South Korea's omnipresent internal security forces through such organizations.

The Korea bribery investigation in Congress in 1977 and 1978 unearthed a CIA memo that linked the formation of the Unification Church to Kim Jong Pil, first director of the Korean CIA and now an opposition party leader in Seoul. Kim denied any links to the church in a recent interview.

Jonathan Park, the son of Bo Hi Pak, Moon's top deputy and a key official in church-affiliated businesses in the United States, said in a recent interview that there was no financial connection between church companies and the South Korean government. "I am 100 percent confident there is no government financial support or contribution," Park said. "And as far as I know, there never has been."

The Korea bribery investigation, which focused on Korean influence-peddling in the United States, also prompted the regime to distance itself from Moon's church, as did criticism from mainstream Christian churches. The government of president Chun Doo Hwan, who held office from 1980 until last month, was "very careful not to come too close, but also careful not to stray too far," according to Yu Jae Gol, a journalist who investigated the church's financial empire for the respected Shin Dong-A monthly magazine.

Tahk Myeong Whan, a preacher who is Moon's most persistent critic here, said the church continues to enjoy close ties with police. Tahk has tracked the church and other groups he calls cults for more than 20 years through his International Religious Research Institute.

Tahk said he has survived booby-trap bombs set in his car and other attacks, most recently when dozens of young men interrupted a lecture he was giving and beat him, breaking his leg.

Certainly, government aid was instrumental in Tong Il's early growth, according to former officials and company documents. Moon's first business venture was the Yeohwa Shotgun and Air Rifle Co., established in December 1979 to produce and sell bird-hunting guns.

Lee Dae Bock, who eventually concluded that the church was "a money-making business posing as a religion," said that sales languished until Moon himself took charge of the business.

"He ordered all leaders and congregations to sell rifles," Lee said. "He allocated quotas. . . . The basic method of making money was to exploit the labor of congregations."

Business improved further in the mid-1960s when the company won a government contract to produce mock wooden rifles for high school and university military training, Lee said. In 1968, the company changed its name to Tong Il, which means unification.

Four years later, the government designated Tong Il as an official producer of transmissions and axles, according to company documents, probably for military vehicles as well as for heavy trucks and buses. The company also won a government license to make firearms that same year, Yu said.

Since then, Tong Il has grown into "the recognized ROK {Republic of Korea} leader for small- and medium-caliber gun and cannon barrels," according to one company catalog. Products include Vulcan antiaircraft guns, heavy machine guns and grenade launchers.

Chae Hee Pyung, a Tong Il official, said at a conference last fall that military business, including a technology link with Rockwell International, accounts for more than 30 percent of the firm's sales.

Like the other companies in the conglomerate, Tong Il does not advertise its connection to the Unification Church. But the president of Tong Il is Moon Sung Kyun, described by Yu Jae Gol as a distant relative of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

And, according to stock market documents, the publicly traded company is 32 percent owned by the Tong Il Religion Support Foundation, which is headed by another relative, Moon Seung Yong. Yu said the church uses the foundation to control its entire financial empire.

A senior official of The Washington Times said that during a visit to the Tong Il plant several years ago, he and other executives were told by a company official that Tong Il provided direct financial support for the newspaper. "I was told that company provided $25 million of the subsidy we get," said the official, who asked not to be identified.

Moon's overall organization has invested more than $200 million in The Washington Times and related publications, such as Insight magazine, since the paper was founded in 1982, according to Times executives. The paper's subsidy last year was $35 million, these executives said.

The Tong Il company was built on the labor of church members, Lee said. "They never paid them, up until 1975," he said. "After '75, they started paying low wages."

Church members would frequently live in company dormitories, rising at 5 a.m. to pray before photographs of "the Real Father and Real Mother," Lee and Tahk said, meaning Moon and his wife. Nonchurch members came under strong pressure to convert.

In recent years, however, Tong Il has recruited more nonchurch members with technological skills and military backgrounds, a company official said. The official said that only 5 percent of the work force now belongs to the church.

Last summer, Tong Il endured two months of damaging strikes at its factories on the southern coast. One issue, Lee said, was non-church members' complaints about discrimination in promotions, a charge the company official denied.

"My judgment is that they had more-than-average damage from labor disputes last year," stock analyst Kim Goon Ho said. The strikes have accelerated automation plans, according to the company.

Moon's best-known company in South Korea is not Tong Il, but its affiliate, Il Hwa Co., meaning "One Peace." Il Hwa, with 2,500 employees, is the nation's largest exporter of ginseng, a native root said to have health-enhancing properties, and recently moved successfully out of the health foods market with the soft drink McCol.

Il Hwa is not listed on the stock market and is believed to be owned entirely by the church and its foundation. Its sales increased from $51 million in 1985 and $69 million in 1986 to an estimated $132 million last year, according to the Management Efficiency Research Institute.

"The ultimate goal of Il Hwa is to enhance the health and happiness of all mankind," the company said.

The church foundation also owns 44.5 percent of the Il Shin Co. (meaning One Belief), which makes decorative pagodas and religious objects out of stone and marble. The company sells most of the objects in Japan, where its hard-sell tactics -- warning of disaster if pagodas are not purchased -- and markups of 1,000 percent or more have brought criticism from some consumer groups.

Recently, the company has diversified into production of building materials for domestic use.

A fourth company, Hankook Titanium, is 26.1 percent owned by the church foundation and 24 percent owned by a related foundation in Japan, according to stock records. The company, which recently benefited from a government decision to bar DuPont from building a similar plant in South Korea, makes materials used in paint and other industrial products.

Tahk said that Moon controls more than 50 firms altogether, while Business Korea identified 23 such firms. Their interests include fishing, construction, trading, water bottling, brickmaking, jewelry handicrafts, machinery sales and printing and publishing. The church recently applied for permission to publish a daily newspaper in Seoul, according to the Korean press.

In addition, the church is a major holder of real estate. On one of the most valuable plots of land in Seoul -- a $200 million lot near the National Assembly -- the church has unsuccessfully sought government permission for a 100-story skyscraper.

Staff reporter Michael Isikoff contributed to this report.

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Moonies alienate our children and serve the CIA

By Larry Henares Jr., from his book Rise and Fall

Excerpted from https://philippinefolio.com/list-of-books/book-12-rise-and-fall/36/

Part 1.  Moonies alienate our children and serve the CIA

EVERY so often, parking your car or seated in a fast-food restaurant, you are accosted by a young person who introduces himself as a student raising money for a trip for student leaders’ conference in South Korea. If you are curious enough, you will upon questioning, discover that this person selling you some worthless item, is connected with the Unification Church, founded in 1954 in Korea by Reverend Sun Myung Moon, an organization known as the Moonies.

Noli de Castro in one of his Magandang Gabi Bayan broadcasts,  exposed a sect of religious nuts called Metro Manila Christian Church (MCC) operating in the University of the Philippines, alienating children from their parents, seducing them into parting with their lunch money, and selling their personal belongings to raise money for the organization. Noli paraded parents one after another, pathetically recounting how their children left home and away from parents, to join this sect. This MMCC seems to have the same Method of Operation as the Moonies.

In the 1970s, the Moonies created an uproar in the United States, when parents hysterically complained to the authorities that their children were being recruited without their knowledge and consent, inveigled to repudiate all further contacts with the family, live in barracks on bread and water, and work their posteriors off creating wealth for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Reverend Moon himself spent time in prison for tax evasion, the method by which Americans punish gangsters like Al Capone.

So bizarre are the Moonies that parents are forced to kidnap their own children from their clutches, and subject them to painful “de-programming” complete with drugs, doctors, psychiatrists and social workers to rid them of their Moonie obsessions. In the 1970s, the Moonies were subjected to Congressional investigations for subverting the American way of life; and to anti-trust prosecution for ill-gotten wealth.

Moonies acquired great wealth from the sale of arms and military equipment. The Argentine army uses uniforms and parachutes made in Korea, and Uruguay armed forces have purchased cannons, machine guns and fatigues from Moon-owned suppliers.

The South Korean company, TONG IL, arms manufacturer and distributor, is owned by the Moonies. It operates under licence from Colt, a major US arms company, and sells arms throughout the world. It is reportedly looking for Filipino partners in the military influential enough to influence the purchase of arms in the Philippines.

Mose Durst, president of the Unification Church in USA, said that “more than $20 million” is raised annually by US fund-raising, including small groups who travel by van from city to city selling flowers imported from South America, boxes of candy and inexpensive trinkets. Such fund-raisers bring in at least $100 per day, but sometimes as much as $1,000 on week-ends.

Shoshee Larkey, 27, said she worked on a four- to six-person team in the San Francisco Bay area during 1982-83, spending most of her time peddling roses in bars, restaurants and factories and giving all proceeds to the church. Each team member set a goal of $200 a day. Members fasted when they failed to reach their goal, she said, “The less money you made, the more time you spent repenting and praying for your failure to fulfill your mission.”

It was found that the church sent more than $800 million over nine years into the USA from a Tokyo business operation that sells marble vases, miniature treasure pagodas and other religious icons.

Church documents indicated that the Japanese church raised $100 million a year in 1981-82; $54 million in a 3-month period June-September 1981; $81.4 million January-August 1982. Moon even conducted a mass wedding of 2,075 Japanese couples in Madison Square Garden, charging each person $2,000. The Moonies control Happy World Inc., a diversified company which among others, distributes computer equipment, runs a canning factory on Hokkaido Island and a health drink factory near Tokyo. But its main activity is importing marble vases, miniature treasure pagodas and ginseng teas from church-owned companies in South Korea, including IL SHIN stoneworks, TONG IL Co., and IL HWA Co. The goods are distributed to about 10 outlets controlled by the church and which use church members as door-to-door salesmen.

More than 2,600 complaints were lodged with the Japan Consumer Information Center in 1976-82, of intimidation, threats or misrepresentations made by Moonie salesmen preying on the “religious anxieties” of consumers. The products were often  portrayed as having mystical powers that can save unhappy marriages, cure illnesses or purge the evil spirits of samurai ancestors.

A vase that cost $21 was sold for $8,300; ginseng worth $42 sold for $336. One salesman can raise about $4,000 per month. Salesman live in grimy group houses where they slept six to a room, and are told never to reveal their church connections.

The Moonies are here now, and are in the service of the CIA. More about this next time.

Part 2.  God save us from the crazy Moonies!

NO one knows the extent of the wealth of the Unification Church of Reverend Sun Myung Moon, mostly because Moon is trying to hide it from the US government.  The US Congress investigated the Moonies, on the complaint of parents that the Moonies were recruiting their children without their knowledge or consent, forcing them to cut off all family ties, and using them as slave labor to earn money for the church.

In frustration, the US government accused Moon of income tax evasion, and sent him to Federal prison, the same way it dealt with Al Capone, Lucky Luciano and the other “untouchable” American gangsters.

Today the Moonies are sacrosanct, Rev. Moon having been pardoned by Reagan upon the request of Jerry Falwell, and asked to operate outside USA and support the CIA as organizer and financier of conservative, anti-communist, pro-American, extreme right-wing groups.

Moon’s Unification Church exalts its founder, Reverend Sun Myung Moon, as a new Messiah to fulfill Christ’s failed mission.  South Korea is regarded as the biblical New Israel.  Strident anti-communism marks every aspect of the Moonies’ theory and practice, bolstered by some $1 billion in assets.

The Moonies function under different names: the Washington Times newspaper in Foggy Bottom; the Moonies’ political arm, the CAUSA International; and Asian Ecumenical Inter-Faith Council.

Among the top leaders of CAUSA International, are Cleon Skousen, a Mormon Church leader, Douglas MacArthur II, and Bo Hi Pak, formerly of the Korean CIA who chairs the organization and admits CIA funding.

In August 1986, Ulrich Vokel of Asian Ecumenical Inter-Faith Council, contacted Brother Rafael Donato of the Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines (AMRSP), asking for an audience for Nicaraguan priest Msgr. Bismark Carballo of the US-backed Contras against the Sandinistas.  The AMRSP refused because Msgr. Carballo’s trip was paid for by CAUSA.

CAUSA sponsored a seminar at the National Defense College, and an October 4 conference in Manila Hotel both of which were attended by Minister Johnny Ponce Enrile, and reportedly co-sponsored by La Salle University, in the person of its president Bro. Andrew (now Bulletin president).  Raul S. Manglapus bitterly criticized the tone of the conference, assailed the National Defense College for lending its name to an extreme right-wing organization, and protested the presence of such Marcos supporters as A. James Gregory, and Ray Cline, formerly CIA deputy director.

There were other characters sponsored by CAUSA coming in and out of the Philippines: General John Singlaub fired by Carter for his extremist views, then chairman of the World Anti-Communist League, funded by the Moonies; Edgar Chamorro, CIA-supported right wing extremist brought here by CAUSA to have an audience with President Cory.

On August 12-14, 1986, CAUSA-sponsored International Security Council met in Manila to draft the “Manila Declaration”’ which asked the USA to be Policeman of Southeast Asia, sought “the retention of military facilities in the Philippines, and the enhancement of an American deterrent capability that will contain the formidable Soviet military threat… “Among the signatories: Carolina G. Hernandez of U.P.; Brig. Gen. Florencio Magsino (Ret.); Santanina T. Rasul; Pablo Tangco of U.S.T.; and Angelesio Tugado, National Defense College.  Raul Manglapus attacked the “Declaration” as a justification of a military take-over.  And in November a rightist military plot was uncovered.

On March 8, 1987, in the Dao Room of the Manila Hotel, a three-day conference on Anti-Communism was sponsored again by CAUSA, attended by militarists, religious extremists and rightist politicians, such as Vice President Salvador Laurel, Colonel Koronel, General Abenina, and Brother Andrew from La Salle (now Bulletin president). And five months later on August 28, 1987, a military coup was attempted.

Others in CAUSA Conferences were: Monsignor Moises Andrade, Monsignor Ted Bacani who delivered a special message from Jaime Cardinal Sin; Education Minister Lourdes Quisumbing; Colonel Rodolfo Biazon of the Philippine Military Academy; Dr. Gloria M. Santos of the Asian Ecumenical Interfaith Movement; Mr. Rogelio Lizada of the Council of the Laity; Atty Danilo Deen, Integrated Bar (IBP); Princess Tarhata Lucman of Tawi-Tawi; Sonia Zaldivar-Ronda, CLP treasurer.

The Moonie Unification Church believes that: (1) its leader, Sun Myung Moon, is the earthly incarnation of God; (2) Its purpose is to set up a world government, in which church and state would be united under Moon’s leadership; (3) as their slogan states, “To win heaven one has to be powerful on earth”; (4) that the world is divided into “Cain type” communist dictatorships and “Abel type” democracies, which will clash inevitably in World War III.

God save from these crazies!    

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Youth Committee for Peace with Freeedom

Conservative pundit Bret Stephen's father Charles Stephens organized over 100 Moonies in the 70s, including Gary Jarmin, Dan Fefferman, Edwin Ang, etc., under the organization "Youth Committee for Peace with Freedom". They lobbied and protested on behalf of continuing the Vietnam War. 

It's been said that the Unification Church benefited from the Vietnam War due to Tongil Heavy Industries' production of weapons used to fight the Vietcong.