| − | In the immediate post-war period, Moon moved to southern Korea and joined a mystical sect called '''Israel Suo-won''', which preached the imminent arrival of a Korean [[messiah]] and engaged in a sexual ritual called "pikarume," in which the ministers purified women through sexual intercourse, the so-called "blessing of the womb."<ref>Robert Parry [http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon4.html ''Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Truth, Legend & Lies''] Moon returned to communist-ruled North Korea, and began to spread this message there but was arrested by North Korean authorities on morals charges connected to his sexual rites with young women. In 1950, however, before he had faced trial, [[United Nations]] troops overran the prison where Moon was held and he and all the other inmates were freed.<ref>ibid</ref> He returned to South Korea, where his recruitment of young studentsfrom an all-girls Christian school led to him being arrested again in 1955 for conducting more sexual "purification" rites, according to several U.S. intelligence reports which are now public. Moon was freed three months later because none of the young women would testify for fear of public humiliation, according to an undated FBI summary, released under a Freedom of Information Act request.<ref>ibid</ref> | + | In the immediate post-war period, Moon moved to southern Korea and joined a mystical sect called '''Israel Suo-won''', which preached the imminent arrival of a Korean [[messiah]] and engaged in a sexual ritual called "pikarume," in which the ministers purified women through sexual intercourse, the so-called "blessing of the womb."<ref>Robert Parry [http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/moon4.html ''Dark Side of Rev. Moon: Truth, Legend & Lies'']</ref> Moon returned to communist-ruled North Korea, and began to spread this message there but was arrested by North Korean authorities on morals charges connected to his sexual rites with young women. In 1950, however, before he had faced trial, [[United Nations]] troops overran the prison where Moon was held and he and all the other inmates were freed.<ref>ibid</ref> He returned to South Korea, where his recruitment of young studentsfrom an all-girls Christian school led to him being arrested again in 1955 for conducting more sexual "purification" rites, according to several U.S. intelligence reports which are now public. Moon was freed three months later because none of the young women would testify for fear of public humiliation, according to an undated FBI summary, released under a Freedom of Information Act request.<ref>ibid</ref> |