Dear Mr. Tilman (tilman@berlin.snafu.de):

No. I have never had any contact with Sun Myung Moon. Are you referring to the "Rev. Moon" who heads the unification church? I am not shy about anything I do. I just didn't mention his name on the net because I don't want to get anyone in trouble who is scared of the National Security Law. That is the reason many concerned South Koreans either don't send donations to the flood victims or if they do so, do so anonymously. The person in question is not well-known, at least to me. I never heard of him before nor of his small conglomerate. But the brochures his staff gave me indicate he has about five enterprises, including a university, such that he has enough funds to make a sizeable contribution to help some starving people, if he wished to do so. I am quite angry that he wasted my valuable time during a busy trip to neither show up to meet me when that was the intention of his messages and that he walked away from any donation. That was the point of mentioning him in my message.

Are you concerned enough to be willing to make a small contribution toward the purchase of rice which I will distribute in my third trip?

Bernard Krisher

>You say:

>"The President of a large manufacturing group in South Korea (who was born in North Korea and has relatives in Kaesong), who also owns a university, read about my activities in a Korean newspaper and sent several admiring faxes to me urgently wishing to meet me on my next trip to Seoul and indicating he would provide a generous donation to the flood victims."

>Are you talking about convicted felon Sun Myung Moon ? Am I correct that you are somewhat shy of mentioning that link ?

>Tilman