Chung Hwan Kwak
Chung Hwan Kwak, (born January 22, 1936) is a South Korean religious leader.  He was a leader in the  Unification Church (UC), and was appointed to many leadership positions in related organizations by its founder Sun Myung Moon. Since 2002, he was the chairman and president of News World Communications, which owns United Press International, and numerous other publications, including the Middle East Times, and Tiempos del Mundo, a Spanish-language newspaper published in 16 countries throughout the Americas. He was also the president of the Family Party for the Universal Peace and Unity, a South Korean political party founded by UC members, one of whose main goals is the reunification of Korea. He was  the president of  the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification and has been described as Sun Myung Moon's assistant and advisor. He was also the chairman of the ″Social Responsibility Committee″ for the Asian Football Confederation.

Kwak wanted The Washington Times to "support international organizations such as the United Nations and to campaign for world peace and interfaith understanding." This created difficulties for editor Wesley Pruden and some of the Times columnists. Issues of contention included the Unification movement's reconciliatory attitude towards North Korea, which at the time included joint business ventures, and Kwak's advocacy for greater understanding between the U.S. and the Islamic world. David Ignatius, reporting for the The Washington Post, predicted that conservatives in Congress and the George W. Bush administration would support Pruden's position over Kwak's.

Kwak's daughter, Jun Sook Kwak, is married to Moon's son, Hyun Jin Preston Moon, the leader of the Global Peace Foundation.  Kwak left the UC in 2009 after internal strife and is now the Honorary President of the Global Peace Foundation.

After the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kwak held a press conference in which he apologized and blamed other UC leaders. Kwak has not named those leaders, and has so far not apologized for his role in exploiting UC workers while he oversaw News World Communications in the 1980s.

Speeches and writings
 collected speeches and writings

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Living people
1936 births
South Korean Unificationists