The Korean Literature Club will be holding a screening of Crossings, a documentary about a group of international women peacemakers setting out on a risky journey across the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, calling for an end to a 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula. The groundbreaking mission of Women Cross DMZ is captured in an intimate cinema vérité style, framed with historic newsreels of the Korean War and punctuated with dramatic contemporary news coverage.

Although the Korean War was halted by armistice in 1953, the warring parties never signed a peace treaty. Now 70 years later, the threat of renewed fighting looms as American troops continue to occupy the Korean peninsula, North Korea and the United States remain adversaries, and millions of Koreans are separated from their family members.

We’d like to explore greater discourse on the subject of the armistice and peacekeeping operations through screening this documentary for the campus in conversation with a guest speaker, Aiyoung Choi, activist and Board Chair of Women Cross DMZ.

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