Claim. Korean reunification cannot be achieved through summit politics; it requires the tong-ban (local community + neighborhood) movement to settle a family-level foundation in the South before the North can be embraced.
Elaboration. SMM rejects the summit-meeting model: “You must achieve the Unification of North and South Korea by embracing the most pitiful, lowliest family in Korea and raising it up. Where does unification start? It won’t start with summit meetings between the president and Kim Il-sung. So we must do these breakthrough activities at the tong ban level” (CSG 13.3 §3, 204-53, 1990.6.29). The mechanism is offered as a Cain-Abel reversal mirroring Jacob and Esau: “The 40 million people of South Korea should all go into North Korea carrying bundles of presents and bring about the result in the same way as when Jacob brought Esau to submission. If we take all the property we have accumulated for 21 years to North Korea and say, ‘Elder brother, this is all yours,’ and then give everything, North Korea will completely submit to us” (ibid §2, 172-97, 1988.1.9). Reunification is therefore framed as a moral/giving act enabled by a settled family-base in the South, not as a negotiation between rival sovereigns. The tong-ban movement supplies that settled base.
See also. cain-abel-pattern, jacob, esau