‘World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit 2014’ - Day 1-Event

‘World Alliance of Religions Peace Summit 2014’ was held in Seoul, the last remaining country in the world in separation with North and South. It was great honor for me to participate it as one of youth wishing for the world peace more than anyone. The official events were lied in three consecutive days and the first one was held in ’88 Olympic Stadium’ in Jamsil, where Seoul Olympic game had once been held in 1988. In this huge stadium, more than 100,000 people gathered together and shouted world peace together. That filled me up in my heart and mind with great hope of completion and achievement of true peace in this globe.

As the countdown for the ‘Day 1-Event’ began, all religious people and the politicians from different countries strode and marched altogether. It was extreme beauty for me seeing them appeared in harmony, and such transcendence of borders, religions, ethnicities, and genders for the world peace seemed to make it possible.

Soon after, an astounding performance has caught the eyes of every single people in the stadium. A card section performance was that amazement performed by 12,000 youths. Its unbelievably impact message was, though quite short, powerful enough to put everyone in recognition of the importance of the world peace during this generation. With its frame by frame message, the spectators came to know how helpless and powerless a government would be for the countless number of innocent sacrifices of youths in the crisis of wars. Those youths whose lives were supposed to bloom with talent and dream but ended to death are one of our families, friends and colleagues.

War must be terminated and ended and the completion and achievement of peace for all mankind must be taken in place.

Followed, congratulatory addresses of prominent figure guests instilled the genuine definition of peace in us. Then, beautiful performances, including 'Arirang', a Korean traditional folk song, were received much attention from the spectators in the stadium.

The chairman of Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL) addressed and urged why we all need to be together and unified to one through WARP Summit in such necessities. Our world where full of screaming, crying and agonizing in the wars can now see the certainty of unprecedented peace in human history.

As for the last event, all the people in participation gathered and went around together in the field, singing ’88 Olympic Theme Song, ‘Hand in Hand’. Such harmonized and unified scene of them impressed and actually touch me deeply.

For the completion of peace, greed in people needs to be abandoned, mutual respect should be taken in place and all must be the put together in one purpose; peace. With this beautiful peace movement as a great and powerful tool, our dauntless courage and endless effort should be paid in order to achieve peace in ultimacy.

Is North Korea still digging tunnels to the South?

Standing inside a basement of an apartment block in the heart of the capital, the former two-star general in the South Korean military says, "This is a kind of invasion, North Korean soldiers working underneath us."

Hahn says residents had complained of underground vibrations, but the subway does not run beneath them.

He says dowsers detected three tunnels, 13 to 16 feet (4 to 5 meters) wide at a depth of up to 39 feet (12 meters). His team drilled two bore holes to lower a camera, but before they could, they detected two underground explosions and their drill holes were blocked. Hahn is certain that North Korean soldiers were working beneath their feet, protecting the tunnel.

A history of tunnels

Four tunnels from the North have been found in all, although none since 1990. The South Korean Defense Ministry still officially looks for them as it believes there may be 20 in all, but the budget is small and tunnel hunters believe it is merely a token effort. North Korea has said the tunnels were not for invasion, but part of its mining industry.

While the Defense Ministry believes there may be up to several tunnels dug under the Demilitarized Zone, it is convinced that none would reach as far as Seoul. It believes that Pyongyang would not be able to dig more than 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the DMZ -- the heavily fortified border -- because of the Imjin River. Seoul's northwestern boundary is about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from the DMZ.

"To dig tunnels tens of kilometers, it must be angled properly," says Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-Seok. "There is a huge amount of groundwater in the Korean Peninsula, so water and soil have to be removed consistently. South Korea and the U.S. have always taken aerial photographs, and we found no evidence of this."

READ: Is North Korean leader Kim Jong Un lying low?

A view from a former North Korean official

But a former intelligence official from North Korea says the notion is not as far-fetched as it might sound. The military defector, who is not using his name as he still has family in the North, said North Koreans "usually pulled out soil and stones during the night so as not to be detected by the U.S. or South Korea. They dig into the ground vertically from 100 to 150 meters (328 to 492 feet) and slope upwards to South Korea so the water drains back to the North."

The man says he had knowledge of the tunnel digging when he lived in the North. Saying that operations peaked in the 1980s, he believes Pyongyang would still protect the multiple tunnels it dug over many decades.

"I was told the tunnels are not directly connected to the streets of Seoul because of the risk of being detected. The tunnels are connected to the sewers linked to the relevant organizations."

READ: North Korean 'Defector Girl Boxer' fights for the South

The relevant organizations that would be targeted are the U.S. Embassy, the Blue House presidential compound and government buildings, he says.

The former official says that in case of war, infantry troops would flood into the tunnels dressed in American or South Korean uniforms. The tunnels would then be blown up behind them so there would be no retreat.

But in recent years, many suspected tunnels have been proved false. And concerns about Pyongyang have shifted to its nuclear ambitions and long-range ballistic missiles.

Tunnel hunters do not always get much respect in South Korea. But Hahn, and others who have dedicated their time and money to the search, say the government should not ignore the threat they believe exists under their very feet.

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/02/world/asia/north-korea-dmz-tunnels/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

From Jordan to Morocco, the pro-Gaza Rubble Bucket challenge goes viral

“I liked the idea of the ice bucket challenge, so I decided to invent the Palestinian version.”

A new trend in support of Gaza is going viral across Arab social media, after a Palestinian journalist filmed himself  dumping a bucket of sand and rubble over his head, in an activity he dubbed the “Remains Bucket” challenge.
The challenge imitates the popular Ice Bucket challenge,in which people photograph themselves pouring a bucket of ice water over their heads, to promote awareness of the disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Palestinian journalist Ayman Aloul started the trend with a video posted to his YouTube channel on Saturday.

“I liked the idea of the ice bucket challenge, so I decided to invent the Palestinian version,” Aloul says, as he stands amid the rubble of a bombed out building in Gaza.

Aloul says that the Remains Bucket challenge is a way of showing empathy for Gazans affected by Operation Protective Edge, by enabling those who take the challenge to show they understand the children’s suffering.

Explaining why he chose rubble instead of water, Aloul said that water is a scarce resource in Gaza, and would be difficult to freeze.

Pointing to the rubble, he said he decided to use that for the Palestinian version of the challenge, instead of water.

The trend quickly caught on in, and beyond, Gaza.

Among those taking the challenge include Jordanian comedian Mohammed Darwaza, who said it enabled him to feel the pain felt by children in Gaza.

Turkish pro-Palestinian NGO IHH posted a video of a Gazan man and four children undertaking the challenge.

source: http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/From-Jordan-to-Morocco-the-pro-Gaza-Rubble-Bucket-challenge-goes-viral-372129

This relay, Don't forget the children in the Gaza Strip, has put into the praying for peace.
I wish that the war come to an end and peace will come as soon as possible.

Let's look at the WARP SUMMIT

Let us try to read the script excerpts, WARP.

beyound borders, races and religions if people can be united into one through
heavenly culture, and peace is implanted in everyone's heart who became one family,
,the will of heaven and wishes of all people wanting peace are moved
into one, then 'World Peace, Restoration of Light' can be achieved to unites all people
into one where there is no king or servant, higher person or lower person.

for the first time I thought,
How can religion be a one??
But It is said that as Heaven Culture it can be achieved it.!!
what is Heavenly Culture??

In the sky , There is no boundary and no discrimination.
Just like that its purpose is to achieve true peace for all without national
boundaries and discrimination.
Just as how the heavens gives light, air, rain to all people equally,
this purpose is to give peace as a gift to all.
People who all received the same things from heaven, but why are there separation and war??
Peace is when life is given to all without discrimination.
The activities that WARP is doing. The WARP summit are part of heavenly culture.

It is amazing Activities!!
I hope that a lot of people know about the WARP.

Anyone who wants to make world peace needs to know this good News !
I want a lot of people  to hear , to see, to join the WARP!!

As a person who wishes for peace_WARP SUMMIT

A few days ago, I found an interesting conference that is WARP Summit.
WARP is World Alliance of religions for peace Summit.
Many people are dying in the war, and there is a terrible things happening in other parts of the world lately.

Due to religious dissensions, wars and conflicts break out and innocent youths and women have been victimzed.
For this reason, WARP is bringing all religions and youth groups together to make a peaceful world.
because of religion for this reason WARP collects all religion for one and youth groups gathered together to create a peaceful world.



I applied for the WARP as a supporters.
I'm  expected for the peace conference in September.
I will help support the Summit with my friends.
As a messenger of peace, I'm happy that can be work to others.
Until now, many people have been crying out for peace. But, It has not yet been achieved in the world.
WARP is proposed in order to achieve the true peace wanted in heaven and on earth.

U.S. celebrates 61st anniversary of Korean War Armistice

An official ceremony celebrating the 61st anniversary of Korean War Armistice signing is held in Washington on July 26, 2014, with about 200 veterans, diplomats and senior officials of the two nations attending. (Yonhap) (Photo courtesy of Korean Embassy in U.S.)

source: yonhapnews

Let's not forget to thank the war veterans.

If war breaks out, there's no knowing how many people will be killed.
Who can recompense for their dead? Nobody ever recompense for them.
The war is never supposed to happen again.
The world  is now at war.
We now work for world peace and believe that it can be possible thing.
change our mind! we can make beautiful world! world peace!

Missile shot down Malaysia Airlines plane

(CNN) -- A Malaysia Airlines passenger jet crashed in a rebel-controlled part of eastern Ukraine on Thursday, spurring swift accusations from Ukrainian officials that "terrorists" shot down the aircraft.
The United States has concluded a missile shot down the plane, but hasn't pinpointed who was responsible, a senior U.S. official told CNN's Barbara Starr.
The Boeing 777 with 298 people aboard fell from the sky near the town of Torez in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, officials said. A top Ukrainian official said the plane, which was on the way from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, was flying at about 10,000 meters (nearly 33,000 feet) when the missile hit.
A radar system saw a surface-to-air missile system turn on and track an aircraft right before the plane went down, the senior U.S. official said. A second system saw a heat signature at the time the airliner was hit, the official said. The United States is analyzing the trajectory of the missile to try to learn where the attack came from, the official said.
source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/17/world/europe/ukraine-malaysia-airlines-crash/index.html?hpt=ias_c1


Oh no! I'm so sorry to hear that again. There have been airplane accidents lately.
Bad things keep happening one after another these days.
many people were killed in those attacks.
I didn't want to hear that news... I'm just sorry to hear that.
I wish that don't let it happen again.
I want nothing more to do with war!
I'm hoping to bring peace in the world ASAP.

Striking Gaza could buy Israel peace for a year, maybe more, analysts say

(CNN) -- The dark curtain rises again on the tragedy of Israel and Gaza, and the next act begins much like its forerunners.
Rockets hunt humans. Bombs crush buildings. Blood spills. The dead ride in caskets through streets, and mothers wail their grief to the heavens.
As Israeli reserves gather like a storm over Gaza's horizon, the added bloodshed of an incursion appears imminent, and millions watching around the world ask:
What could they hope to achieve?
There is no dramatic endgame in this, but there are concrete objectives, says Israeli military analyst and columnist Ron Ben-Yishai.
There are official ones and unofficial ones, short-term and long-term, that make sense for Israel, he argues.
Many of them will work, concedes critical Israeli columnist Gideon Levy. But he disagrees about their wisdom.
They won't cure the disease but instead feed it, he argues.
Military objective No. 1
First, the conservative government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to stop the rocket fire by force.
And weaken the Hamas militants and other groups behind it, Ben-Yishai says.
"Erode the political clout and the ability of Hamas to act both as a political and military-terrorist movement."
Those are the official goals given by the Cabinet for the military operation named Protective Edge, he says. And they'll probably be achieved, Ben-Yishai says.
"For the short-run, no doubt," Levy concurs. But he also thinks Hamas will come back stronger militarily and politically.
That's what happened over two years ago in operation Pillar of Defense and over five years ago in Operation Cast Lead, he says.
In the latter, 1,300 Palestinians and more than a dozen Israelis died.
Rockets' roots
Levy sees the rocket fire from Gaza as the boiling over of cumulative tensions.
He points to the peace process initiated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry between Israel and Palestinians. The one that broke down weeks ago.
The whole time, a piece was missing from the negotiating table, he says. "Gaza was ignored totally."
Then a litany of youth killings ignited passions on both sides.
Three Jewish teens were murdered, and Israeli forces swept the West Bank for suspects, making arrests that had nothing to do with the case, Levy says. Palestinians were killed.
The murder of a Palestinian teen quickly followed; his body was torched. Suspicions arose that it was revenge for the Israelis' deaths.
Add to that the desperation in Gaza. The narrow strip of land is locked in on all sides, and people there live in dire poverty and deprivation. "Gaza is today the biggest cage in the world," Levy says.
The rocket fire is just a part of it all, he says. It's a way of Hamas pounding the table, pointing out Gaza's misery.
Levy's solution to the rocket fire: Pay more attention to Gazans. Don't marginalize them. Open borders, so they can move freely.
Ben-Yishai, on the other hand, believes that the peaceful approach -- that calm will be met with calm -- hasn't worked out.
"This formula is out of the game. It's not in the cards now," he says. The military option has become inevitable.
How Iron Dome blocks rockets from Gaza, protects Israelis
Operation drill-down
Hamas militants have come back stronger after the last military operation in at least one sense, Ben-Yishai says.
They have more long-range rockets. Previously, militants had to import them all from the outside. Now they can also construct them themselves.
They've also buried a network of launch sites below the ground's surface. Hitting them "is quite a job," Ben-Yishai says.
The Israel Defense Forces will have to strike deep into those systems. But the IDF has also adapted. Its bombs have become more accurate.
That also reduces collateral damage in Gaza, he says. Most who die were shooting rockets, he says. "Those who deserve it."
It's all a vicious cycle he's seen before, Levy says. The IDF destroys the militants' capabilities; they come back stronger.
"By the next operation, they will be even better equipped," he says. So will the Israelis.
Ground incursion
Israel has called up 30,000 reserve troops and has talked about pulling in 10,000 more, a signal that there may be a ground incursion into Gaza.
Levy firmly believes it will happen, that the IDF otherwise will not be able to root out militants' rocket systems.
Ben-Yishai is less certain. "I think it is in the cards. They've not made the decision yet," he says of the government.
Netanyahu may use aggressive rhetoric but is cautious about military decisions, he says. And so far, the government is satisfied with the operations as they have been -- only from the air thus far.
The endgame
The government hopes that Protective Edge will give Israel a few years of relative peace, restore normalcy for a time, Ben-Yishai says.
"After every round of hostility ... there is a sort of lull that Israel enjoys very much," he says. People can think about other things and tackle other issues, like the economy.
But it's not nearly worth the cost, Levy says. Droves of Palestinians will be killed, others' lives ruined. But even from a purely selfish standpoint, it's at best an empty victory.
"We will see horrible scenes," he says. "The world will condemn Israel. And what comes out of it? One year of peace."
Ben-Yishai believes there is a permanent gain to be made, that repeated operations in Gaza will wear the enemy down.
He hopes that the lulls between battles will get longer and longer, "until our neighbor realizes that they cannot make us disappear. They cannot erase us from the map."
Levy thinks Gaza militants won't quit until the misery there ends.
He predicts that military intervention will set the stage for the next bloodcurdling act -- and then the next.
New wave of Israeli airstrikes hammers Gaza
Flare-up in Israeli-Palestinian violence: Why now?
Has the Middle East crisis reached a tipping point?

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/10/world/meast/mideast-gaza-endgame/index.html?iid=article_sidebar
Can peace ever come to Middle East?
War is the most barbarous thing. Millions of peaple were uprooted by the war!
The victims of all the war were children.  Many thousands of children die from the war every year.
I feel sorry for that poor children. The war should be over! We want peace.
I hope that there will be peace all over the globe.

Eager to advance world peace

                                                                                                      source: yonhap news

    I have been working as a professional photographer in Santa Barbara. I have a dream that I want to express all joy of the world with photos ,so I have been accomplished it through the journey of the world . One of the most impressive experiences was to visit to Korea last year where had the most beautiful weather in May. While taking pictures in Olympic Park ,I found by chance a great number of people who were covered with many various colors. Many foreigners as well as Koreans , maybe about several ten thousand people were preparing something. They were all youths and they looked very active and bright like youths of my hometown. After some time,there was a great shout on the prepared stage.and then started walking campaign with a big joy. Their message in shouting was World Peace and not to forget dead youths as victims of war all around the world. They were youths to get together in order to keep World Peace. I felt their shouting fervent.I think the reason why their shouting is eager is because they have experienced deep sorrow which is divied in two.

I was so surprised when I heard peace advocate Man Hee Lee, the middle of this movement, there was him..

He is over his youth age, but his cry for peace was hotter than youth. I joined in his peace walk, and I could leave bright smile , joy of youth as photographs. while the walking many publics were joining and lots of traditional festival for each continent was very good. when I face Man Hee Lee's news from any kinds of media, I can remember the day that was gathering for peace.

His first sentence of the peace walk day, "who can against the world peace?" I try to answer with this question and work support with my local youth people. 

Thank you Mr. Man Hee Lee!

lyrics of Imagine, the bestseller music sung by John Lennon

Imagine that everyone can live peaceful lives. no one doesn't need to kill somebody in war, and don't need to be died due to war. there is no need to have religion, private property.

It's a part of lyrics of Imagine, the bestseller music sung by John Lennon. He is a peace-loving antiwar activist, who tried to express the peace in his songs. His songs are known as a peace symbol.

A world free from possession, greed, and hunger. How wonderful it would be if there exists that world! Amazingly, there is a peace activist who makes utmost effort for that world. It is Man Hee Lee. He is 83 years old but nevertheless he has been trying to save the global village howling in wars, hunger, and darkness and touring around the world for years . Even without a personal life!

This peace advocate, Man Hee Lee, has been touring the world many times and calling for "Only peace! We are the one!". And I really expected his move! If more people of like his minds join and join, doesn't the peace come that has no more terrible and cruel wars, a gap between rich and poor, suffering, and tears?

Even though I can't run together with him, I should cheer up the peace advocate Man Hee Lee in my mind.

Ukraine crisis: Early results show Crimea votes to join Russia

Perevalnoye, Ukraine (CNN) -- Preliminary results in Sunday's referendum on whether Ukraine's Crimea region should join Russia or become an independent state show overwhelming support for Russia.

With 75% percent of the ballots counted, close to 96% of voters want to become part of that country, according to the Crimean Electoral Commission. An official had announced earlier that more than 80% of voters had cast ballots by the time polls closed at 8 p.m. local time (2 p.m. ET) Sunday.

Final results are expected later.

"We are going home. Crimea is in Russia," Crimea's Prime Minister Sergey Aksyonov told crowds celebrating in Simferopol's Lenin Square. Music blared as they cheered and waved Russian flags.

The United States has already said it expects the Black Sea peninsula's majority ethnic Russian population to vote in favor of joining Russia. Moscow has strongly backed the referendum.

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Sunday, according to a readout from the White House.

"President Obama emphasized that the Crimean 'referendum,' which violates the Ukrainian constitution and occurred under duress of Russian military intervention, would never be recognized by the United States and the international community," it said. "He emphasized that Russia's actions were in violation of Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity and that, in coordination with our European partners, we are prepared to impose additional costs on Russia for its actions."

Earlier, the White House released a statement that said the vote was "administered under threats of violence and intimidation from a Russian military intervention that violates international law."

The voting has put the United States and Russia on the kind of collision course not seen since the end of the Cold War. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry reaffirmed in a call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that the United States considered the referendum illegal under Ukrainian law and that the United States would not recognize the outcome.

The European Union on Sunday repeated its "strong condemnation" of the referendum and called on Russia to withdraw its troops from the region. It, too, has called the referendum illegal and said it is looking at sanctions.

Lavrov said in a statement Saturday that Crimea's referendum conforms to international law.

European nations and the United States have announced some targeted punishments against Russia and have threatened tougher sanctions if the secession vote goes through, as now appears likely.

Is the referendum legal?

'Russia is an opportunity'

At a polling station in Perevalnoye, near a military base, a steady stream of voters arrived to cast their ballots despite the wintry weather.

Blaring dance tunes and Russian folk music welcomed them to the polling station, in an echo of Soviet times. What appeared to be a group of Russian soldiers -- without identifying insignia but with Russian license plates on their vehicles -- stood nearby.

One voter, Grigory Illarionovich, told CNN, "I'm for restoring Crimea to Russia. Returning what Khrushchev took away."

The Black Sea peninsula was part of Russia until Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev gave it to Ukraine in 1954. Ukraine was then part of the Soviet Union.

Another voter in Perevalnoye, Viktor Savchenko, said he would never vote for the government in Kiev. "I want us to join Russia, and live like Russians, with all their rights," he said.

Victoria Khudyakova said she also had voted to join Russia, which she sees as being "spiritually close" to Crimea. "For me, Russia is an opportunity for our Crimea to develop, to bloom. And I believe that it will be so," she said.

But Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, speaking in Kiev, dismissed the referendum as illegitimate under Ukrainian and international law and improperly run.

He said Ukrainian authorities had information from Crimea about voting irregularities, including people who are not Crimean citizens casting ballots, the absence of proper monitoring and the presence of armed men.

Mikhail Malyshev, the head of the Crimean Election Commission, said there was no information that people with foreign passports were voting in the referendum. He also said no "provocations" had been reported at polling stations.

CNN analyst and Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner similarly stressed that Sunday's vote was in no way staged.

"When you look at the celebrations, you can't doubt that these people really are very happy," he said.
Double voting?

In Simferopol, voters filed into a polling place, picked up white and yellow ballots and headed to private booths to fill them out before dropping them through the slits of clear ballot boxes.

In another polling station, the vast majority of ballots dropped in the boxes appeared to be marked in favor of joining Russia.

Some 80% of voters turning out at a polling station in Bakhchysaray were not on the electoral roll, the registrar told CNN. Those not on the roll have their passports and papers checked to establish identity. On the spot, election staff decide, with a show of hands, whether to allow those voters to participate.

A CNN team photographed one voter dropping two pieces of paper into the ballot box, raising questions over how effectively the vote is being monitored.

Turnout was high, but many Crimean Tatars, an ethnic Turkic group with deep roots on the peninsula, were boycotting the vote, as were many ethnic Ukrainians.

Tatars, who make up about 12% of the Crimean population, have faced severe persecution in the past, when Crimea belonged to Russia. On Saturday, representatives issued a statement recognizing Ukraine with its present borders, which would include Crimea.

They asked the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev for more legal protection for their ethnic group.

Much pro-Russian propaganda has been in evidence in the run-up to the referendum, both on the airwaves and in the form of campaign posters showing the Crimean Peninsula painted with either a Nazi swastika or the Russian flag.

Moscow has insisted it has the right to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine, who it claims are threatened by radical nationalists and "fascists."

Could Donetsk go in the same way as Crimea?

Russian squeeze

Pro-Russian troops remain firmly in control of the Black Sea peninsula. Ukraine and the West insist the soldiers belong to Moscow, but the Kremlin vehemently denies it, saying they are Crimean "self-defense" forces.

Ukraine's acting Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh said Sunday that Ukraine had reached an agreement "with the Russian side" that Russian forces will allow the delivery of food and basic supplies to Ukrainian military bases in Crimea until Friday. The bases have been blockaded for days.

Tenyukh told a Cabinet meeting that there are now 21,500 Russian troops on Crimean soil. Russia is entitled to station 25,000 troops at its leased Sevastopol naval base -- but the question is where those troops are.

Tenyukh also said Ukrainian troops and equipment are being moved into Ukraine's east and south, in line with where Russian military forces are located.

Moscow has been carrying out mass military exercises not far from Ukraine's eastern border.

Russia tightened its military grip on Saturday within Ukraine. About 60 Russian troops in six helicopters and three armored vehicles reportedly crossed into Ukraine's Kherson region and were in the town of Strilkove, on a strip of land just northeast of Crimea.

The region is key to neighboring Crimea, because it gets electricity, fresh water and natural gas from there. The Russians said they were in Kherson to prevent a possible terrorist attack on oil assets, according to Ukrainian border guards.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Russian activities in Kherson in a phone call with Putin on Sunday, according to a statement from her office.

She urged an increase in the presence of observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, so they can quickly be sent to contested areas, especially in eastern Ukraine, and called on Putin to talk to the government in Kiev.

The Kremlin's readout of the phone call said the pair had "constructive" discussions on sending an OSCE observer mission to Ukraine.

Putin also voiced concern that "radical groups" in league with Kiev were stirring up tensions in eastern and southeastern Ukraine and argued that the Crimean referendum is legal, it said.

Ukraine's Cabinet said Sunday it had asked for a new OSCE diplomatic monitoring mission to be sent to Ukraine. A military observer mission is currently in the country but has been prevented from entering Crimea.

CNN team in Crimea: This is a McMoment to remember

What happens next in Crimea?

If the vote goes in favor of joining Russia, as it looks like it will, Crimea's government will declare its independence and ask Moscow to let it join the Russian Federation. Russian lawmakers have said they'll vote on the question on Friday.

Christopher Hill, a former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, Iraq and Poland, described Sunday as a bad day for East-West relations.

"Putin has left our president with no choice. He needs to impose sanctions. I know Putin will come back and impose his own," he said. "I think the end of this is going to be to cast Russia out into the cold. And the problem is, I don't think Putin really cares. I think this is where he wants to take Russia."

In Simferopol and other places with Russian majorities, blue, white and red Russian flags have dominated the streets.

In the coastal Crimean town of Sevastopol, concerts on the main square have been celebrating the return to the "motherland" this past week.

"Everybody believes the results are already rigged," said CNN iReporter Maia Mikhaluk from Kiev.

"People are concerned what is going to happen after the referendum," she said. "People are concerned that the Russian army will use force, guns to push (the) Ukrainian army from Crimea."

In the city of Donetsk, near the Russian border in eastern Ukraine, pro-Russian demonstrators stormed the prosecutor's office, forcing their way through a door of the building.

The activists are demanding the release of pro-Moscow movement leader Pavel Gubarev, who was arrested on March 6 for leading an occupation of the regional administration office.

Earlier, thousands of pro-Russian demonstrators gathered for a second day in a central Donetsk square before marching through the city. Riot police stood on guard outside the offices of Ukraine's security service and the regional administration.

Addressing the Cabinet meeting, acting Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said small rallies in Donetsk and another nearby city, Lugansk, had ended. About 4,000 pro-Russian protesters have gathered for a third rally, in Kharkiv, he said.

source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/16/world/europe/ukraine-crisis/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Why Gaza conflict risks wider war

Editor's note: Michael B. Oren is the Abba Eban chair in international diplomacy at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, Israel, and an ambassador-in-residence at the Atlantic Council. He was formerly Israel's ambassador to the United States.

(CNN) -- Back in the mid-1960s, a Palestinian guerrilla group called Fatah -- the Conquest -- began launching cross-border attacks against Israeli civilians.

Sponsored by Syria and led by Palestinian activists, among them the young Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah aroused admiration throughout the Arab world. So much so that Egypt, then Syria's rival, formed its own group and called it the Palestine Liberation Organization -- the PLO -- which also staged attacks into Israel.

The Israelis wouldn't sit passively, though, but struck back at Fatah's Syrian hosts, who in turn shelled Israeli villages. Not to be outdone, Egypt in May 1967 evicted U.N. peacekeeping forces from the Sinai Peninsula and amassed troops along Israel's border. This precipitated an Israeli pre-emptive strike against Egypt which, within hours, ensnarled Syria and even Jordan. Six days later, Israeli troops controlled the territories, whose final status remains bitterly unresolved.

Recalling the background to the Six-Day War -- a conflict almost nobody wanted and even fewer anticipated -- is crucial today in the face of a frightfully similar process unfolding along Israel's southern border.

If left unchecked, the rising violence in Gaza could quickly spiral uncontrollably. Another conflagration, no more desired or foreseen than that of 1967, could once again engulf the Middle East.

Though Fatah and the PLO merged long ago and are now headed by Mahmoud Abbas, who has since forsworn terror, other Palestinian groups are vying for power. By attacking Israel, they gain credibility in the Palestinian street and prestige throughout the region.

One such group was Hamas, a wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, that violently expelled Abbas' men from Gaza in 2007 and proceeded to fire thousands of rockets at Israel. Still not passive, Israel retaliated with punishing operations in Gaza in 2008 and 2012. Those blows, together with the Brotherhood's fall from power in Egypt, subdued Hamas, but now another Gaza organization has risen to challenge it.

Islamic Jihad has been firing rockets and aiming ground attacks at Israel. Characteristically, the Israelis responded with force and earlier this week killed three Islamic Jihad operatives engaged in mounting a strike. The terrorists then fired some 50 rockets and mortar shells at southern Israeli towns, spurring Israeli fighter jets to bomb 29 targets in Gaza.

(An Islamic Jihad leader told CNN on Thursday a truce had been declared, but the Israeli government has not commented.)

But Israel regards Hamas as the sovereign authority in Gaza and holds it ultimately responsible for any attacks emanating from there, even those conducted by Islamic Jihad. If the rocket fire and shelling continue, Israel is likely to retaliate against Hamas, which could be dragged, however unwillingly, into the fighting.

Islamic Jihad is funded and armed by Iran. Just last week, Israeli naval commandos intercepted a cargo ship -- the Klos-C -- carrying 400,000 bullets and 40 rockets capable of hitting Tel Aviv. Made in Iran, the arms would have enabled Islamic Jihad to join with Hezbollah, Iran's chief proxy in Lebanon, to rocket every Israeli city. The goal is to deter Israel from striking Iran's nuclear facilities and to paralyze it with multiple existential threats.

But what if Iran -- much like Egypt in 1967 -- miscalculated? What could happen if an Israeli reprisal for Islamic Jihad's rockets results in a confrontation between Israel and Hamas?

Would Hezbollah then join the clash, unleashing its arsenal of more than 100,000 rockets against the Jewish state, and would Israeli forces have to invade Lebanon to stop them? Would Iran watch idly while its closest Middle East ally was crushed by the "Zionist enemy," or would it, too, leap into the fray?

Gaza remains a combat zone as of this writing, and rocket alert sirens are wailing in southern Israeli cities. As in previous exchanges, a de facto cease-fire might be worked out and relative calm restored to the region. Or the confrontation could widen, and what began as a skirmish could inexorably expand into war. As the example of 1967 reminds us, a single spark in the combustible Middle East can swiftly fan a flare-up into a firestorm.


source: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/03/13/opinion/oren-gaza-conflict-implications/index.html?hpt=imi_t3

[Putin & Ukraina] wars at their borders have not stopped.

                                                                              source: CNN

Big and small wars at their borders have not stopped.
The recent, news comes that the wars at their borders.
There hasn't been peace in the world.
Anyone want world peace but, the war isn't over.
As the Wars, more and more people will die.
I really don't feel like fears anymore.
We need to make the world around you change.
Also, We should stay awake.
we will make efforts to secure peace in the world.

North Korea fires 4 projectiles believed to be short-range missiles

N. Korea fires 4 projectiles believed to be short-range missiles 

SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) -- North Korea fired four projectiles believed to be short-range ballistic missiles off its southeast coast Thursday, a South Korean defense ministry official said.

The projectiles were fired from the Gitdaeryeong area on the North's southeastern coast toward the waters beginning at 5:42 p.m., the official said.

source: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2014/02/27/0401000000AEN20140227009300315.html

I feel a growing sense of unease.

We do not know what's going to happen or when clashes with North Korea.

By when we fear of possible war on the Korean peninsula?

Now It should stop the wars! 

We must shout a peace to halt the war.

We don't want war!! We want world peace.

[Different thinking] The World is One Piece, We Hope World Peace

Why do wars break out?
I think wars break out from the differences.
Different thinking, ideologies, religions, etc.
So how can we make world peace in real with overcome these differences?
I think 'being one' is the answer of the question.