Has the Unification Church of Sun Myung Moon become a communist-type peace movement?

Originally the movement of Sun Myung Moon was called the 'Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of Worldwide Christianity' (HSA-UWC). Later that became Unification Church.
In these days the main organization of the movement is called the Universal Peace Federation.

In the 1980s members of the Unfication Church campaigned against peace demonstrations and Moon himself gave speeches explaining that peace is not something external first of all, but is achieved when good people are subject over bad people. Such peace could only start with an individual who has peace in him- or herself, meaning that this person should be centered on God and should have his mind united with God and in control of his body. The political peace movements of that time were seen by the Unification Church as set up or controlled by communism.

But after Moon made friends with communist leaders such as Gorbachev and Kim Il Sung, the movement is focusing on promoting peace in the world.

Moon meets Gorbachev in 1990 - screenshot


Moon meets Kim Il Sung in 1991 - screenshot

Links

Sun Myung Moon - http://www.reverendsunmyungmoon.org/
Unification Church - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification...
Universal Peace Federation - http://www.upf.org/

Answer

From a religious viewpoint peace means first of all that a person has harmony within him or her. Peace in the world comes from peace in an individual. Religious people will not firstly center their efforts on external peace in the world, but on having peace with God and within and with the nearest relatives and friends.

Communism promotes peace as a way of propaganda. It is the kind of peace that also was prevalent in the Roman Empire. It is peace under a powerful ruler.

Moon wants to be the king of the world and he wants to use the United Nations as base for his power. He wants peace under himself as sole ruler. This kind of peace is basically the same as in communism or the Roman Empire.

My conclusion therefore is that Sun Myung Moon is not anymore advancing religious peace, but has become the leader of a peace movement that has very much similarity to the peace movements that he once was fighting.