Salai Thla Hei, General Secretary of the Chin National Front (CNF), joined leaders from the National Unity Government (NUG) and allied resistance organizations at a public engagement meeting on Sunday, calling on Myanmar’s diaspora in South Korea to actively participate in rebuilding the country.
The event, organized by the NUG Representative Office in South Korea, was hosted by the Steering Council for the Emergence of a Federal Democratic Union (SCEF)—a coalition leading efforts to end military rule in Myanmar—at the Bupyeong District Office in Incheon on November 8.
Addressing attendees, Salai Thla Hei emphasized that unity among ethnic communities abroad is essential for the success of the anti-junta Spring Revolution.
“The SCEF was formed because we realized that the revolution could no longer move forward with just one group or one ethnic community taking the lead,” he said.
“If all the diverse ethnic groups from Myanmar living abroad unite and support the SCEF, there is no reason the revolution cannot succeed.”
He commended the contributions and sacrifices of Myanmar citizens in South Korea and urged them to contribute to nation-building just as they fulfill civic duties in their host countries.
“I hope people living in other countries will follow the example of how forces in South Korea have come together and organized themselves in the same way,” he added.
The SCEF currently comprises nine resistance groups and is conducting talks with additional organizations to expand its coalition. Salai Thla Hei pledged that member groups would continue fighting together to achieve a political settlement that addresses the Union’s decades-long structural conflict.
High-level representatives at the Incheon meeting included NUG Foreign Minister Daw Zin Mar Aung; U Tin Tun Naing, NUG Minister of Planning, Finance and Investment; and Neineh Plo, Secretary-1 of the Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP) and head of the Foreign Affairs Committee for the Karenni State Interim Executive Council (IEC).
Delegates briefed the audience on Myanmar’s evolving political and military landscape, the SCEF’s strategic objectives, and mechanisms for diaspora engagement in coordination with ethnic organizations and NUG offices worldwide.