Sun Myung Moon

Born

Jeongju, North Pyongan Province, Korea (1920)

Died

2012 in Seoul, South Korea

Role

Founder and Spiritual Leader of the Unification Church

Affiliation

Unification Church, News World Communications, Tongil Group

Bio Notes

Founder of the Unification Church, self-proclaimed Messiah, and author of the Divine Principle. Moon built a massive global religious, political, and financial empire with documented ties to the KCIA (investigated during the 'Koreagate' scandal) and the Japanese LDP. He utilized 'heavenly deception' for recruitment and was convicted of tax evasion in the U.S. in 1982. He died in 2012, sparking a massive succession crisis among his heirs (DOCUMENTED).