며칠전, 존경하는 친지께서 이멜을 보내왔었다. 내용을 요약하면, 탈북해서 남한으로와 유명한 방송인된 한여인이 갑자기 북한의 평양 방송에 나타나 한국을 살곳이 못되는 지옥의 나라로 비난하면서, 잠시 생각을 잘못하여 위대한 영도자께서 이끄시는 조국을 배반하고 탈북했었던 점을 깊이 뉘우치고, 앞으로 조국을 위해 남은 생애 아낌없이 바치겠다는 장광설을 늘어놓은 취지의 동영상을 보도한 것이다.
이메일을 보면서, 뭔가 석연치 않은 흑막이 개재되 있다는것을 직감할수 있었고, 그배후는 또 북한이겠구나 라고 짐작을 하면서, 이런식이라면, 탈북민들 불안해서 제대로 발뻗고 잠잘수 있겠나?라는 생각과, 몇년전 북한 로얄패밀리의 일원으로, 탈북하여 잘 살고 있던 "이한영"이 피살된것과, 오래전 '신상옥과 최은희'부부의 홍콩납치 사건들이 기억에 떠 올랐었다.
오늘 BBC의 뉴스를 보면서, 그같은 나의 의심이 사실이 확인되는것을 보면서, 언제까지 북한은 이러한 인간말종의 망나니짖을 이어갈것인가? 청와대는 왜 이런 잔인무도한 북한의 김정은 집단에게 꿀먹은 벙어리가 되고 있는가? 국민들은 촛불집회를 하면서, 잘하고 있는 대통령까지 탄핵으로 몰고 가면서, 왜 인간납치의 종주국 이북에 대해서는 촛불집회로 항의 하기는 커녕, 말한마디 없는가? 이게 대한민국 맞나? BBC의 뉴스를 옮겨 놓았다.
South Korean intelligence officials are investigating whether a prominent defector from the North has been kidnapped back to Pyongyang.
The woman, known as Lim Ji-hyun, fled to South Korea in 2014, where she became a popular TV personality.
However, a woman resembling her appeared in a propaganda video in the North's capital on Sunday - prompting speculation she may have been abducted.
In the video, she says she was lured away and forced to slander the North.
She says that she voluntarily returned across the border.
Ms Lim had been a popular face on South Korean television, appearing on both talk shows and reality TV programmes.
The authorities have not yet confirmed if the woman in the propaganda video is Ms Lim. However, they believe Ms Lim is back in North Korea.
The propaganda video was released on Youtube by the North Korean Uriminzokkiri website on Sunday.
In the video, the woman introduces herself by another name, Jeon Hye-Sung.
She is shown in conversation with an interviewer and Kim Man-bok, another former defector who also returned to the North.
She says she was lured to the South by the "fantasy" that she could "eat well and make lots of money" and claims that she was forced into slandering her own country.
She describes how in the South everything was judged by money, how she was struggling to make ends meet and was asked to discredit the North on several TV shows.
She said she was now living back with her parents again after returning to the North last month.
"I felt really lonely in South Korea and I missed my parents," she said in the video.
JoongAng Ilbo newspaper reports that the defector had thanked her fans as recently as April for a birthday party, calling it "possibly the happiest birthday of my life".
Her fan club announced on Sunday it would shut.
Intelligence officials are investigating how Ms Lim might have re-entered North Korea.
Some North Korean defectors have speculated that she may have been abducted on the China-North Korean border while attempting to smuggle out family members, the Korea Times reports.
The BBC's Karen Allen in Seoul says that fake propaganda videos do circulate in North Korea but the authorities in Seoul have confirmed they are taking this seriously and are investigating her case.
Over the past decade, tens of thousands of North Koreans have defected from the authoritarian state into South Korea.
The unification ministry in Seoul told the BBC that since 2012 only 25 returned.
Some North Korean defectors have described difficulties in adapting to life in the South - many miss their families in the North, or struggle to find suitable jobs.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40640047
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