김대중은 해방이후 북괴공산당 정부 내부에서 고위층으로 근무하던, 우리 정부가 침투시켰던 애국자(?)들의 명단을 휴대하고 평양으로가서 김정일과 정상회담하면서 그명단을 넘겨주어, 전부 소탕하여, 지금은 북한내부의 비밀 작당에 대해서 우리 남한은 깜깜한 세상이 되고 말았다.
김정일은 그때 김대중 전임의 평양 방문에 대한 답방차원에서 남한을 조속한 시일내에 방문 할것을 약속했지만, 지켜지지 않았고, 그후 지금은 사망한 노무현 전대통령이 그후 다시 평양을 방문 했지만, 아직까지도 그의 방한 방문 약속은 지켜지지 않고 있다.
요즘 남한의 각 텔레비젼 방송국에서 코미디와, 야간업소, 영화 그리고 드라마에서, 김정일을 해학적으로 묘사한 내용들이 많이 발표 되고 있어 돈벌이가 아주 잘되고 있다고 한다, 이에 대해 남한 정부는 속앓이를 많이 하고 있다고 전해 진다. 행여나 이러한 방송매체로, 조심스럽게 화해 무드를 타고 있는 남북간의 긴장완화 조짐에 찬물을 끼얹는 역효과가 나지 않을까 해서라고 한다.
얼마전에는 거의 건강 악화로, 서둘러서 그의 막내아들을 후계자로 내세워, 그에게 힘을 실어주기위해 온갖 정성을 다 쏟고 있다는 뉴스를 본 기억도 새롭다. 천년 만년 살아서 북한 전역을 호령할것 처럼 묘사되고, 우상화 됐었던 그의 아버지도 어느날 밤 소리없이 생을 마감했음을 직접 체험 하면서도, 권력의 유한성, 삶의 한계를 깨닫지 못하고, 중병으로 곧죽어 없어질 그모습을 감추기 위해 대역을 내세워 북한 국민과 전세계를 향해 거짖과 망나니짖을 끊임없이 해대고 있는 그에게 차리리 연민의 정이 느껴진다.
고국의 조선일보에서는 현정은 현대아산개발회장도 이북 방문에서 가짜 김정일을 만났다고 언급했는데, 여기 ABC뉴스는 그에 대한 언급이 없다. 아마도 남한 자체내에서 입수한 내용인가 보다. 아니면 빌 클링턴 대통령도 당했는데, 현정은 회장도 그런 사기에 넘어갔을 것으로 미루어 뉴스로 발표한 것일까?
언제나, 나의 생전에, 남한의 민족이 느끼는 진정한 자유와 경제의 부를, 이북의 민족도 느끼면서, Enjoy하면서 삶을 구가 하는 그날이 올까?
여기에 ABC 인터넷 뉴스 전문을 옮겨 놓았다. 훗날을 위해서.....
Did President Clinton Meet N. Korea's Kim Jong-il or a Look-Alike?
Some Wonder if North Korean Leader Uses Lookalikes to Hide Poor Health
By DONALD KIRK
Nov. 1, 2009
In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service in Tokyo, former U.S....
(Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service/AP Photo)
A number of analysts here are convinced that not all the photos being released of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-il, are really photos of Kim Jong-il.
Instead, they say, a look-alike has been standing in for him on some of the 122 trips he's reportedly made this year to the countryside, factories, cultural events, military units, and all sorts of other venues.
Some observers say the North Korean leader is too ill to make all these appearances. One Japanese analyst claims President Clinton didn't meet with Kim Jong-il in August – he met with a Mr. Kim double.
The evidence of Kim stand-ins is far from verified, but several North Korean refugees here say that Kim has not one but several look-alikes playing his role.
Still, it's logical that for security reasons, Kim has one or more stand-ins, as did former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before the US invasion in 2003. One argument is that Kim has no time for all those trips outside Pyongyang while his health remains uncertain and he's preparing his youngest son to take over as early as next year.
Ha Tae-young, president of Open Radio for North Korea, which broadcasts two hours a day via shortwave into North Korea, cites the word of one recent North Korean defector.
"He says he knows a girl whose father is the actor for Kim Jong-il," says Mr. Ha. "Recently Kim Jong-il loses fat. He's very skinny these days. The defector says, If Kim Jong-il looks skinny, the actor can do the same thing."
Some turn resemblance into acting career
Here in South Korea, there's a booming business in Kim Jong-il look-alikes. Dozens of people in recent years have portrayed Kim Jong-il in television comedy shows, nightclub routines, and serious movies and dramas.
After the inter-Korean summit of June 2000, in which Kim Jong-il received South Korea President Kim Dae-jung in Pyongyang, the South Korean government discouraged such satires for fear of upsetting reconciliation with the North.
Still, from time to time South Koreans delight in appearing on TV flaunting the curly-haired bouffant hairstyle, platform shoes, and protruding stomach for which the Dear Leader was known before he disappeared from view for months after reportedly suffering a stroke in August 2008.
The wave of public appearances reported by the North Korean propaganda machine since then to show he's in good health convinces some analysts that North Korean actors are portraying the Dear Leader, too – but in dead seriousness.
"That's possible," says Choi Jin-wook, senior fellow and specialist on North Korea at the Korea Institute of National Unification. "These dictators always need look-alikes for security reasons. Kim Jong-il is giving 'on-the-spot guidance' too often for his health."
Mr. Choi also says that North Korean photo editors are likely pasting in old pictures of Kim from previous times when he was in good health.
Did Clinton meet with look-alike?
No one here, however, is ready to go as far as Japanese writer Toshimitsu Shigemura, who has written two books and numerous articles claiming that Kim has been seriously ill for the past decade and may even have died.
Mr. Shigemura says that if the real Kim, looking wan and weak, appeared before the Supreme People's Assembly several days after North Korea fired a long-range missile on April 5, then it must have been a look-alike who hosted former US President Bill Clinton in August.
"They were totally different people," says Mr. Shigemura, a former correspondent for Mainichi Shimbun, a major Japanese newspaper, who now teaches international relations at Waseda University in Tokyo. "In August, he looked very healthy."
Shigemura suspects that a skilled actor delivered the lines to Mr. Clinton during their three-hour, 17-minute meeting, which ended with Mr. Clinton flying back to the US with two journalists who had been held for 140 days.
Shigemura is equally convinced that an actor played Kim in recent meetings with China's prime minister, Wen Jiabao, and the head of Hyundai Asan, the South Korean company responsible for developing special economic and tourist complexes in North Korea.
After the June 2000 summit, says Shigemura, Kim "was bedridden with diabetes" and "cannot walk by himself." He cites the names of three Japanese who claim to have met his look-alikes, including one who was told flatly, "I am a double."
One of them, a magician named Princess Tenko, Shigemura describes as a "close friend" of Kim, saw him more than once in visits to Pyongyang.
Fully self-possessed
Some analysts here, however, have trouble with Shigemura's analysis.
"There have been such rumors," says Kim Tae-woo, a veteran North Korea specialist at the Korea Institute of Defense Analyses. "Dictators usually do that, but we don't know whether this is real or fake."
The North Korean leader's preoccupation these days, he says, is arranging the succession of his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, still in his late 20s.
Ryoo Kihl-jae, professor at the University of North Korean Studies, is dubious about such reports. Kim Jong-il's brother-in-law, Jang Song-taek, appears to be the most powerful figure after the Dear Leader, he says, "but his authority stems from Kim Jong-il" and two or three generals are vying for control.
For now, says Mr. Ryoo, Kim is "living well," and the reports of a double standing in for him are "just imagination."
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