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	Pyonghwa Motors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pyonghwa Motors (also spelled Pyeonghwa) is originally a South Korean car importer, which set up a car producing joint-venture with the North Korean Ryonbong General Corp. in Nampo.
		The Chairman bears a strong resemblance to Mercedes-Benz cars, which are favoured by North Korean government officials, and is indeed based on an old Mercedes design, the W124 E-Class.
		Pyonghwa also plans to export cars to China, Vietnam and South Korea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pyonghwa_Motors (367 words)

	Unification Church :: Pyonghwa Motors, Unification Church Do a Deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Seoul-based Pyonghwa, principally a car dealer that imports Ford Motor Co. products into South Korea, is associated with the Unification Church, run by the Rev. Moon Sun-myung.
		Kim says Pyonghwa even produced a seven-minute-long commercial for North Korea's state-run television network, which he claims was the first commercial to be broadcast in the North.
		Pyonghwa has not produced a profit yet, but the company expects to be in the fl by 2006, when production is forecast to reach 12,000 cars per year.
	religionnewsblog.com /4218-Pyonghwa_Motors,_Unification_Church_Do_a_... (1138 words)

	theage.com.au - The Age -
		Against all odds, Pyonghwa Motors is next month opening a $US55 million ($A104 million) car assembly plant on former rice paddies in the coastal city of Nampo.
		As well as the car assembly plant, Pyonghwa wants to open a department store, petrol stations, car showrooms and what the company describes as a "World Peace Centre" in Pyongyang to promote cultural and educational exchanges.
		Pyonghwa officials hope the investments will aid the reconciliation process between the two Koreas, estranged for more than 50 years.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/03/25/1017004764843.html (452 words)

	Commie Cars: Sun Myung Moon Does Business With Axis of Evil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Against all odds, Pyonghwa Motors next month is opening a $55-million auto assembly plant where there once were rice paddies in the western coastal city of Nampo.
		Pyonghwa officials say they hope the investments will advance the reconciliation process between the two Koreas, estranged for more than half a century.
		Pyonghwa also owns a Fiat assembly plant in Vietnam and has tried various automotive projects in China, which so far have been unsuccessful.
	www.usasurvival.org /moon-cars.shtml (1652 words)

	Pyonghwa Builds NK Auto Plant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Pyonghwa Motors, an automaker owned by the Unification Church of Rev. Moon Sun-myung, said yesterday it has completed to build an auto assembly in Nampo,North Korea's southwestern coast.
		Pyonghwa Motors said it has invested some 71 billion won or $55 million to the build auto assembly in Nampo area, aiming to produce around 10,000 Italy's Fiat cars annually.
		A year ago, Pyonghwa Motors laid a groundwork to build the auto plant in Nampo, and at current level, around 200 North Korean employees are working at the site.
	www.rickross.com /reference/unif/unif158.html (255 words)

	Welcome To Korea Now !!!-Business Briefs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Officials from South Korea's Pyonghwa Motors and North Korea's Ryonbong Corp. celebrate the first automobile produced from the Pyonghwa auto assembly plant in Nampo near Pyongyang on April 6.
		Pyonghwa Motors, owned by the Unification Church of Rev. Moon Sun-myung, said it has invested some 71 billion won ($55 million) to build auto assembly lines...
		Hyundai Motor Co. has won an order for 6,000 Verna compact cars for handicapped use in an international bid invited by the Libyan government, the loc...
	kn.koreaherald.co.kr /PI/2002/04/24/brief (246 words)

	FFWPU Group Tours North Korea - Unification News 12/2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The program was hosted by the Pyonghwa Motor Company and sponsored by FFWPU (President: Rev. Dr.
		Besides the Pyonghwa Motors plant located in Nampo City, the tour itinerary included the birthplace of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon in Jeongju, North Pyongan Province, Man Su Dae Art Theatre, the Arch of Triumph, Mount Myohyang, Kim Il-sung's birthplace, Changgwang Kindergarten and Man Gyeong Dae Student Palace.
		It was actually Chairman Kim Jong-il himself who had selected the 330,000 pyong-plot of land (equivalent to almost 110 hectares or about 275 acres) as the best possible site for the Pyonghwa Motors Assembly Plant in Nampo City, where the construction of the general factory and the repair workshop has already been completed.
	www.tparents.org /UNews/Unws0212/cars_n_koreaa.htm (400 words)

	Unification Church :: Unification Church Group to Begin Tours to North Korean Capital (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Church-owned Tongil Group's auto venture in North Korea, Pyonghwa Motors Co., will take as many as 2,000 South Korean tourists to the communist country's capital by year-end, South Korea's government said in a statement.
		Participants must attend a half-day class on dos-and-don'ts in the North, will have their movements restricted and will be banned from speaking to North Koreans, he said.
		Pyonghwa spokesman Kim Byung Gyu said the company will get 7 percent of sales, with the North's government keeping the balance.
	religionnewsblog.com /4135-Unification_Church_Group_to_Begin_Tours_t... (587 words)

	Don't Let This Get Covered Up: Rev. Sun-Myung Moon's Unification Church and WMD Proliferation - single post for printer
		One of those firms is Korea Ryonbong General Corporation, a Pyongyang-based company that launched an automobile assembly line in 2002 with South Korea's Pyonghwa Motors...
		The order ("Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters") is said to allow the U.S. Treasury Department to freeze assets not only of the listed companies but also those of any person or organization that has business dealings with them.
		That includes Pyonghwa Motors, the Unification Church, the Washington Times, any number of tax supported Moonie fronts for Faith Based Community Initiatives, Falwell's Liberty University, Moon's personal holdings, and by a very ironic stretch of the imagination, the entire Republican Party.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/single.php?post=1520514 (284 words)

	Pyonghwa Motors, Unification Community Do a Deal - Unification News 11/2003 - Unification News 12/2003 - 1/2004
		Seoul-based Pyonghwa, principally a car dealer that imports Ford Motor Co. products into South Korea, is associated with the Unification Community.
		The Italian carmaker’s model is being assembled in the Nampo factory backed by South Korean capital and North Korean labor.
		The assembly line also recently started producing Fiat’s commercial Doblo van under its own name, Ppeokkugi, or "Cuckoo." Pyonghwa says its will be able to design its own models soon.
	www.tparents.org /UNews/Unws0311/panda_n_korea.htm (502 words)

	Moon's North Korea Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The North Koreans also allowed Moon's followers to develop Jongju, the northwestern town where Moon was born, into a pilgrimage site-another coup for the Unification Church because the communist nation bans all practice of religion.
		The workers are very clever, very quick to learn, and they are harshly controlled by their superiors." Pyonghwa also owns a Fiat assembly plant in Vietnam and has tried various automotive projects in China, which so far have been unsuccessful.
		Park painted a picture of life in the North Korean capital far different from the horrific images of outer regions described by aid workers.
	www.usasurvival.org /mnntkr.shtml (459 words)

	Report: DaimlerChrysler Near Deal [Free Republic]
		The two companies were negotiating a comprehensive tie-up and have entered the final stage of their talks with a deal possible by the end of this month, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun economic daily said, citing unidentified sources.
		Last December, Mitsubishi Motors formed an equity alliance with Sweden's AB Volvo to produce trucks and buses.
		The church's Pyonghwa Motors and North Korea's state-run Ryonbong Corp. tentatively agreed last year to build car assembly lines in Nampo on North Korea's southwestern coast.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a38c55a0d2bec.htm (1490 words)

	Excerpt: The Unification Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the United States, the church has developed different activities in the areas of marine work and fishing.
		According to newspaper reports from Korea, on August 31, 1999, Hong Kong-based and Unification-affiliated Pyonghwa Motors received initial permission to develop plans to invest $300 million to build cars in North Korea.
		Pyonghwa hopes first to establish a car repair facility in the North.
	www.signaturebooks.com /excerpts/unification.htm (4312 words)

	Where in Washington, D.C. is Reverend Moon?: This right-wing talking point is brought to you by the Axis of Evil.
		Warning: What I'm about to describe may be even more shocking than Democrats being "bitterly partisan" (the crime Insight has blown the lid off).
		Moon owns a car company, Pyonghwa Motors, which has just won exclusive rights as automotive supplier for Kim Jong-Il's Communist dictatorship.
		Park said that the North Korean government gave Pyonghwa Motors a monopoly on domestic car production for the next 10 years, and that the authorities level no taxes on either car sales or the import of car parts.
	iapprovethismessiah.com /2004/01/this-right-wing-talking-point-is.html (695 words)

	portland imc - 2005.07.01 - Bush targets Moon partner as WMD spreader
		The South Korean firm, owned by Rev. Moon Sun-myung?s Unification Church, invested about 71 billion won [$67.5 millon] in the plant located in the North Korean city of Nampo, according to news reports.
		Note: Moon owns Pyonghwa (which means "Peace"), not Ryongbong, the suspected WMD proliferator itself.
		But their relationship now appears to put Moon's assets under the threat of a U.S. freeze.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2005/07/320677.shtml (436 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Tension of the Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But the church has embraced a conciliatory line, including investment in North Korea.
		Moon has bankrolled Pyonghwa Motors, which plans to produce cars in the North, along with a hotel, a park and a church there.
		A senior church official, Ahn Ho Yeol, told a South Korean newspaper last year: "It is our principle to achieve peace on the Korean Peninsula by promoting mutual prosperity." Again, that's a dovish sentiment you won't often read in the Times.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A50909-2004Jun17?language=printer (779 words)

	Where in Washington, D.C. is Reverend Moon?: Washington Times owner Moon's unexamined relationship with North ...
		Specifically, Moon enjoys a special relationship with North Korea dictator Kim Jong-Il, through his car company Pyonghwa Motors -- which has a monopoly on car sales to the Communist Party in Pyongyang.
		Pyonghwa has also gained such benefits from the North as an exclusive right to car production, tax exemption until 2007, as well as additional exclusive rights to buy and sell used cars.
		Moon then worked to improve the image of the North.
	iapprovethismessiah.com /2004/05/washington-times-owner-moons.html (715 words)

	NAPSNet Daily Report, Monday, February 7, 2000
		The Korea Herald (Kim Ji-ho, "CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON FIRST INTER-KOREAN AUTO PLANT IN N.K.," Seoul, 02/07/00) reported that the DPRK's official news agency announced that the Unification Church opened construction on February 3 on the first auto plant to be built jointly by ROK and DPRK partners in Nampo, DPRK.
		Pyonghwa General Motors Works is an inter-Korean venture, led by the ROK's Pyonghwa Motors Company (PMC), which is affiliated with Reverend Moon Sun-myung's Unification Church, and the DPRK's state-run Yonbong Corporation.
		The partners hope to complete the first stage of construction by the end of March and start to assemble vehicles in April.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/napsnet/dr/0002/FEB07.html (2585 words)

	Migukin » Wag The Dog (of War)
		You’d think if he was powerful enough to get himself “crowned” in a Senate building, he be able to wiggle his way out of stuff like this.
		However, experts in Seoul expressed surprise over the inclusion of Korea Ryonbong General Corporation, a Pyongyang-based company that in 2002 launched an automobile assembly line together with South Korea’s Pyonghwa Motors.
		The South Korean firm, owned by Rev. Moon Sun-myung’s Unification Church, invested about 71 billion won in the plant located in the North Korean city of Nampo, according to news reports.
	www.migukin.com /?p=23 (491 words)

	NK Missions - The World Network for North Korea Missions
		In recent years, the Unification Church has been negotiating a historical joint venture auto assembly plant to be built in Nampo, North Korea.
		Few people thought that such a huge undertaking could be possible, but in April 2002, Pyonghwa Motors, an automaker owned by the Unification Church, completed the $55 million auto assembly plant.
		They are aiming to produce 10,000 Fiat cars annually with plans of expanding production to 100,000 cars annually.
	www.nkmissions.com /misc.php?id=77_0_1_0_C (2010 words)

	WorldWide Religious News-Pyonghwa Motors, Unification Church Do a Deal
		WorldWide Religious News-Pyonghwa Motors, Unification Church Do a Deal
		• Pyonghwa Motors, Unification Church Do a Deal
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	www.wwrn.org /article.php?idd=5036&sec=49&cont=4 (1042 words)

	just-auto.com: Automotive news, market research and industry comment
		Nissan has set a deadline of October 15 for tie-up talks with alliance partner Renault and General Motors, saying it is also looking at options other than a capital tie-up, Kyodo News reported.
		The UK automotive industryâs trade association, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), looks after the collective interests of its company members and also organises the British International Motor Show, held this year in London.
		The SMMTâs chief executive, Christopher Macgowan spoke exclusively to the just-auto editor Dave Leggett just ahead of the London Motor Show.
	www.just-auto.com /article.aspx?art=948&type=2 (620 words)

	Universal Peace Federation - Peacebuilding
		Reunification rallies: Korean residents living in Japan travel to Korea to join reunification rallies and to call on governments to hasten their efforts to end five decades of separation.
		Joint business ventures: Pyonghwa (Peace) Motors Inc. opened in the North Korean city of Nampo in 2002.
		Meanwhile, the affiliated Botonggang Hotel in Pyongyang hosts a growing number of international groups.
	peacefederation.org /programs/peace/NEAPI (711 words)

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