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Archbishop Hyginus Hee-joong Kim

A delegation from National Reconciliation of the Korean People, part of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of [South] Korea (CBCK), will visit North Korea from Dec. 1 to Dec. 4. The committee received an official invitation from the North Korean Catholic Association.

A total of 17 people will join the delegation to North Korea, including Archbishop Hyginus Hee-joong Kim, Bishop Kim Un-hoe, chair of the Committee for National Reconciliation, and Archbishop Cho Hwan-gil and Bishop Lee Gi-heon, both of whom are also committee members. The delegation will be led by Archbishop Kim Hui-jung, who is the president of the CBCK.

The trip to North Korea - which marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Korea from Japanese colonial rule and the division of the peninsula into North and South - is intended to foster discussion about continuing forms of cooperation and exchange, including repairing Changchung Cathedral in Pyongyang, and interaction between Catholics from North and South Korea with the goal of peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula.

By Lee Kil-woo, senior staff writer

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