Rev. Jeff Ridges visited Korea this past November and held meetings with Rev. Kim, Young Ju General Secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea and the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. World Mission Regional Liaison, Rev. Lim, Choon Sik.   Previously, Rev. Ridges spent 8 years serving in Korea as a PC(USA) co-worker with the Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK) working with the Agriculture and Fishery Ministry Department. He currently serves as the Associate Director of the PC(USA) Outreach Foundation in Louisville, Kentucky. Through his service in Northeast Asia, he has maintained relationships with South Korea as well as China, visiting China at least twice a year on behalf of the Outreach Foundation.   He is currently interested in emphasizing relations with both China and North Korea.   Rev. Ridges especially wanted to meet with NCCK staff and Rev. Kim in order to talk more about the potential for reunification on the Korean peninsula. He is hoping to learn more about North Korea through the NCCK because he is interested in building a network between NCCK, Amity, and the Korean Christian Federation (KCF) of North Korea. During his time in Korea he also paid visits to Presbyterian University (Jangshin) and other professors with whom he once worked.   Patti Talbot, Program Coordinator for the United Church of Canada People in Partnership office, visited the NCCK at the end of October. She especially sat down with the International Relations Department, the Gender Equality Department, and the Reconciliation and Reunification Department to see how her office could work more closely with the projects of the NCCK. In addition to the peaceful reconciliation movement, she was particularly interested in connecting Canadian women theologians with the Korean Association of Women Theologians (KAWT), and also connecting the Canadian Church to those working with migrant worker communities, a current focus for the UCC.   The NCCK is interested in building up more relationships and networks with passionate Christians and denominations around the world. The conflict on the Korean peninsula involves more than just Koreans. Rather the conflict here relates to conflicts all around Northeast Asia and in fact around the world. If powers around the world could redeem their relationship to the conflict here, redeeming mistakes of the past, reconciliation here could provide hope for tension all around the world.