American Peace Activist Is Denied Entry to South Korea

American Peace Activist Is Denied Entry to South Korea
Ms. Ahn said that Ms. Wright still plans to go to Seoul, where she
and other female activists from the United States, Switzerland, Japan and Australia plan to campaign for a peace treaty to officially end the 1950-53 Korean War.
On Sunday, two of its members, Ms. Steinem and the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire, sent letters
to Ahn Ho-young, the South Korean ambassador to Washington, urging Seoul to lift the ban on Ms. Ahn.
In that campaign, a group of 30 female peace activists, including Gloria Steinem
and two Nobel Peace Prize laureates, visited North Korea and then crossed the Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, into South Korea, calling for a treaty to formally end the Korean War.
Ms. Ahn said she suspected that the government of the former president Park Geun-hye, a conservative who was impeached over a corruption scandal
and removed from office in March, had put her on a blacklist for helping organize the Women Cross DMZ campaign in May 2015.
Ms. Ahn said she was now in China with other female peace activists from the United States and Canada.
Ms. Ahn said there were no indications that Ms. Wright or any of the other activists would be barred from South Korea.