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A PLANNED North-South Korea women’s peace march went ahead yesterday by bus, despite South Korea failing to guarantee their safety.
The group of 30 women from 15 countries, including Northern Irish Nobel peace laureate Mairead Maguire, had made a final appeal to be allowed to walk across the heavily guarded Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the two Korean republics but were turned down.
Instead the North Korean government allowed a South Korean bus to pick the women up.
United Nations Command officials met the group inside the DMZ after they crossed the demarcation line, and allowed them to march again after the final checkpoint on the southern side.
Korea has been divided since the 1950-53 Korean war ended in an armistice.
Organiser Christine Ahn said the group originally wanted to walk through the symbolic village of Panmunjom, where the armistice was signed.
