Which Korea are you from?

Eighty years ago, the 38th parallel was a temporary arrangement. After the surrender of Imperial Japan, the United States and Soviet Union divvied up a home, a peninsula of strategic importance, among themselves. How they and we managed to convince generations and generations of soldiers to bury 2 million landmines in a demilitarized zone is both tragedy and farce. Their removal will take more than 450 years. I was not alive in 1945, but these intervening years have seen, by my count, the mass production of plastic, the invention of the internet and the Berlin Wall being constructed and felled. Womens’ absence — or exclusion rather — from the peace and security process is glaringly obvious from one glance at the infinite security panels on the Koreas. As a “global movement of women mobilizing to end the Korean War,” Women Cross DMZ aims to end the division by bringing women into the process. The group's most famous action? A peace bus from North to South in 2015. Organized by Women Cross DMZ co-founder Christine Ahn, 30 female peace activists from around the world, including