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