"공평한 사회, 모두가 잘사는 사회,소통행보..." 문재인 대통령의 통치 철학의 요약이다.
그는 야인시절, 인권변호사로,지금은 지하 6피트 밑에서 영원히 잠자고 있는 노통과 한솥밥을 먹으면서, 마치 모든 국민들의 인권을 책임진것 처럼 전국의 법원을 돌아다니면서, 억울한자의 변호를 위해 동분서주했었고, 구원파 사이비교주의 변호도 맡아 했었던 변호사였었다.
촛불의 힘을 얻어 대통령이 된후 그의 통치철학은 국민들이 쉽게 이해가 안가는 해괴한 정책을 평등의 원리를 들먹이면서, 기업인들은 마치 범죄자 취급하고, 전임대통령들과 고위직 공무원들을 야금야금 올가미를 씌워 감옥에 잡아넣기 시작하더니, 지금은 씨가말라 더이상 감옥에 올가미씌워 집어넣을 인물이 없게돼자, 이제는 사법부까지 올가미씌워, 전대법원장을 구속킬려고 작전중이다.이름하여 재직시 부당한 권력을 휘둘렀다는 것이다.
문재인 대통령은 지난해에만(2018년도)에 북괴 김정은과 3번의 정상회담과 국회의원들, 표면적으로는 자진형식이지만, 내면적으로 억압하여 바쁜 기업인들 끌고 평양에 가서, 이선권으로 부터 "목구멍으로 냉면이 넘어갑니까?"라는 망신을 당하는 치욕적인 면박을 당하는, 그러면서도 왜 평양에 갔었는지의 방문목적이 선명하게 밝혀진게 아직까지도 없었다.
많은 안내비용을 내고, 어렵게 탈북한 북한주민들, 특히 여성들은 인신매매범들에게 사기당해, 돈은 돈데로 들고, 탈북해서는 그들의 협박에 몸을 파는 지옥같은 매춘 행위를 몇년씩 하다가 운좋게 그곳에서 탈출하여 자유의 몸이 된 뉴스를 문재인 대통령은 다 보고 받아서 알고 있을 것이다. 그녀들중에 한명은 김정은 Regime에서 고위직으로 근무하는 자가 그녀의 부모라고 한다.
매춘행위를 불응하면, 바로 북한 첩보원들에게 통보하여 다시 이북에 보내겠다는 협박으로, 다시 북한에 되돌려 보내는것을 피하기위해, 울면서 매춘에 응한다는 그녀들의 증언을 들으면서, 김정은 Regime은 정말로 우리와 같은 사람들일까?라는 엉뚱한 생각을 하지 않을수 없었다. 나를 더욱놀라게 한것은, 그녀들을 짖밟은 고객들 전부가 한국에서 관광온 사람들이었다는 것이다. 문재인 대통령은 이뉴스를 접하면서, 중국가는 남성관광객들을 완전히 막을 의지가 있는지? 묻고싶다. 이질문 자체가 우문현답일수 있겠지만....
이런 한반도 우리 민족의 비극은 언제 종지부를 찍을때가 있을 것인가?
나는 문재인 대통령에게 묻고싶다. 3번씩이나 Wine잔들고 웃음을 팔고 어깨동무도 하면서 정상회담할 당시, 한번이라도 그가 인권변호사로 근무했던 경력을 살려, 북한인권문제, 탈북하다 중국의 방해로 붙잡힌 북한주민들이 다시 북한으로 되돌려 보내면, 중노동 수용소, 아니면 공개 처형까지 당하는 인간 지옥의 북한에 대해 적절한 조치를 김정은에게 요구한적이 있었는가?라고.
차라리 탈북을 원하는 북한주민들을 붙잡고 탈북하지못하게하는 근본 이유가 뭔가를 .... 그리고 그들이 탈북해서 남한에오면, 더좋은 삶의 조건을 만들어 주겠다는, 그요구가 허용된다면, 차라리 남한국민들로부터동의를 얻어, 지금까지 숨어서 도와준 두더지 작전을 접고, 공개적으로 북한을 경제적으로 도울수있다라는 논리를 펴본적이 있었나?
여기 BBC에 보도된 뉴스는, 북한의 잔악상은 빙산의 일각에 불과하다고 믿는다. 인간으로서는 해선 안될 만행을 3대째 저지르고 있는 김정은과 정상회담을 했다고 해서, 북한주민들의 먹거리나 인권이 향상된점이 있다거나, 남한적화의 꿈을 접었다는 얘기를 들어본적도, 청와대의 발표도 없었다.
Trafficked into the sex industry after defecting from North Korea, two young women spent years in captivity before finally getting the chance to escape.
From the
third floor of a residential tower block in the Chinese city of Yanji,
two young women hurl their torn up, knotted bedsheets out of a window.매춘행위를 불응하면, 바로 북한 첩보원들에게 통보하여 다시 이북에 보내겠다는 협박으로, 다시 북한에 되돌려 보내는것을 피하기위해, 울면서 매춘에 응한다는 그녀들의 증언을 들으면서, 김정은 Regime은 정말로 우리와 같은 사람들일까?라는 엉뚱한 생각을 하지 않을수 없었다. 나를 더욱놀라게 한것은, 그녀들을 짖밟은 고객들 전부가 한국에서 관광온 사람들이었다는 것이다. 문재인 대통령은 이뉴스를 접하면서, 중국가는 남성관광객들을 완전히 막을 의지가 있는지? 묻고싶다. 이질문 자체가 우문현답일수 있겠지만....
이런 한반도 우리 민족의 비극은 언제 종지부를 찍을때가 있을 것인가?
나는 문재인 대통령에게 묻고싶다. 3번씩이나 Wine잔들고 웃음을 팔고 어깨동무도 하면서 정상회담할 당시, 한번이라도 그가 인권변호사로 근무했던 경력을 살려, 북한인권문제, 탈북하다 중국의 방해로 붙잡힌 북한주민들이 다시 북한으로 되돌려 보내면, 중노동 수용소, 아니면 공개 처형까지 당하는 인간 지옥의 북한에 대해 적절한 조치를 김정은에게 요구한적이 있었는가?라고.
차라리 탈북을 원하는 북한주민들을 붙잡고 탈북하지못하게하는 근본 이유가 뭔가를 .... 그리고 그들이 탈북해서 남한에오면, 더좋은 삶의 조건을 만들어 주겠다는, 그요구가 허용된다면, 차라리 남한국민들로부터동의를 얻어, 지금까지 숨어서 도와준 두더지 작전을 접고, 공개적으로 북한을 경제적으로 도울수있다라는 논리를 펴본적이 있었나?
여기 BBC에 보도된 뉴스는, 북한의 잔악상은 빙산의 일각에 불과하다고 믿는다. 인간으로서는 해선 안될 만행을 3대째 저지르고 있는 김정은과 정상회담을 했다고 해서, 북한주민들의 먹거리나 인권이 향상된점이 있다거나, 남한적화의 꿈을 접었다는 얘기를 들어본적도, 청와대의 발표도 없었다.
Trafficked into the sex industry after defecting from North Korea, two young women spent years in captivity before finally getting the chance to escape.
When they pull the sheets back up, a proper rope has been tied on.
They climb out of the window and begin their descent.
"Quick, we don't have much time," urges their rescuer.
Safely on the ground, they turn and run to a waiting people carrier.
But they are not yet out of danger.
Mira and Jiyun are both North Korean defectors and, years apart, both were tricked by traffickers.
After crossing the border into China, the same people who helped them to escape North Korea, known as "brokers" in the smuggling trade, handed them over to a sexcam operation.
Mira for the past five years, and Jiyun for the past eight, were confined to an apartment and made to work as "sexcam girls", performing often pornographic acts in front of a live webcam.
Leaving North Korea without the regime's permission is illegal. And yet many risk their lives to escape.
There is safe refuge in South Korea but the strip of land between North and South Korea is heavily militarised and filled with mines - it's nearly impossible to defect directly.
Instead, many defectors have to turn north and cross into China.
But in China, North Korean defectors are considered "illegal immigrants" and are sent back if caught by the authorities. Once back in their homeland, defectors are subject to torture and imprisonment for their "treason against the Fatherland".
Many defectors fled during the mid 1990s when a severe famine known as The Arduous March caused the death of at least one million people.
But since Kim Jong-un came to power in North Korea in 2011, the total number of people defecting each year has fallen by more than half. This decline has been attributed to tighter controls at the border and brokers increasing their price.
Mira defected when she was just 22.
Born close to the end of the famine, Mira grew up in a new generation of North Koreans. Thanks to a growing network of underground markets, known locally as Jangmadang, they could access DVD players, cosmetics, fake designer clothes, as well as USB sticks loaded with illegal foreign movies.
This influx of materials from outside helped persuade some to defect. The films smuggled in from China gave a glimpse of the outside world, and a motivation for leaving North Korea.
Mira was one of those affected.
"I was really into Chinese movies and thought all men from China were like that. I wanted to marry a Chinese man and I looked into leaving North Korea for several years."
Her father, a former soldier and party member, was very strict and ran the household to a tight schedule. He would even occasionally beat her.
Mira wanted to train as a doctor, but this was also stopped by her father. She became more and more frustrated and dreamt of a new life in China.
"My father was a party member and it was suffocating. He wouldn't let me watch foreign movies, I had to wake up and sleep at exact times. I didn't have my own life."
For years Mira tried to find a broker to help her cross the Tumen River and escape over the tightly controlled border. But her family's close ties to the government made many smugglers nervous that she would report them to the authorities.
Finally after four years of trying, she found someone to help her.
Like many defectors, Mira didn't have enough money to pay the broker directly. So instead she agreed to be "sold" and work off her debt. Mira thought she would be working in a restaurant.
But she had been tricked. Mira had been targeted by a smuggling ring who recruit female North Korean defectors into the sex industry.
After crossing the Tumen River into China, Mira was taken directly to the city of Yanji where she was handed over to a Korean-Chinese man she would come to know as "the director".
The city of Yanji lies at the heart of the Yanbian region. With a large population of ethnic Koreans, it has become a busy hub for trade with North Korea, as well as one of the main Chinese cities where North Korean defectors live in hiding.
Women make up a large majority of defectors. But with no legal status in China, they are particularly vulnerable to being exploited. Some are sold as brides, often in rural areas, some are forced into prostitution or, like Mira, into sexcam work.
Arriving at the apartment, the director finally revealed to Mira what her new job would entail.
He paired up his new recruit with a "mentor" who would share her room. Mira was to watch, learn and practise.
"I couldn't believe it. It was so humiliating as a woman, taking off your clothes like that in front of people. When I burst into tears, they asked if I was crying because I missed home."
The sexcam site, and most of its users, were South Korean. They would pay by the minute, so the women were encouraged to hold the men's attention for as long as possible.
Any time Mira wavered or showed fear, the director would threaten her with being sent back to North Korea.
"All my family members work in the government, and I would be bringing shame to the family name if I returned. I'd rather vanish like smoke and die."
There were up to nine women in the apartment at any one time. When Mira's first roommate escaped with another girl, Mira was put together with another group of girls. This is how Mira met Jiyun.
Her parents divorced when she was two, and her family fell into poverty. She stopped going to school at 11 so she could work, and finally decided to go to China for a year to bring money back home.
But like Mira, she was also tricked by her broker and not told she would be doing sexcam work.
When she arrived in Yanji, the director tried to send her back to North Korea. He said she was "too dark and ugly".
Despite the situation, Jiyun did not want to go back.
"It's a kind of work that I despise the most, but I risked my life in order to come to China so I couldn't go back empty-handed.
"My dream was to feed my grandparents some rice before they leave this world. That's why I could endure everything. I wanted to send money to the family."
Jiyun worked hard, believing that the director would reward her for her good performance. Holding on to the promise that she would be able to contact her family, and send money back to them, she was soon bringing in more money than the other girls in the house.
"I wanted to be acknowledged by the director, and I wanted to contact my family. I thought I would be the first girl to be released from this work if I was the best in the house."
She would sometimes sleep for only four hours a night, in order to hit the daily target of $177 (£140). She was desperate to earn money for her family.
At times Jiyun would even console Mira, telling her not to rebel but to try to reason with the director.
"First, work hard," she would tell Mira, "and if the director doesn't send you home afterwards, then you can reason with him."
Jiyun says that during the years she was earning more than the other girls, the director favoured her a lot.
"I thought he genuinely cared for me. But on the days my earnings went down, the expression on his face would change. He'd tell us off for not trying hard, and doing other bad activities such as watching dramas."
The apartment was closely guarded by the director's family. His parents slept in the living room and kept the entrance door locked.
The director would deliver food to the girls, and his brother who lived nearby came every morning to empty their rubbish.
"It was a complete confinement, even worse than a prison," says Jiyun.
The North Korean girls were allowed outside once every six months, or if their earnings were high enough, once a month. In those rare moments, they did shopping or went to get their hair done. But even then, they were not allowed to talk to anyone.
"The director walked very close to us like a lover, because he feared we would run away," says Mira. "I wanted to walk around as I wished but I couldn't. We weren't allowed to speak to anyone, even to buy a bottle of water. I felt like a fool."
The director had appointed one of the North Korean women in the apartment to be a "manager", and she kept an eye on the rest when the director was away.
The director promised Mira that he would marry her to a good man if she worked hard. He promised Jiyun he would let her contact her family.
When Jiyun asked him to release her, he told her that she would need to earn $53,200 to pay for her trip. He then told her that he was unable to release her because he could not find any brokers.
Mira and Jiyun never saw the money they earned through their sexcam work.
The director initially agreed to give them 30% of the profits, and they were to receive this when they were released.
But Mira and Jiyun became more and more anxious as they realised they might never be free.
"Killing myself is not what I would normally think about, but I tried to take a drug overdose and tried to jump from the window," says Jiyun.
The years went by - five for Mira and eight for Jiyun.
Then a sexcam client of Mira's, who she had known for three years, took pity on her. He put her in touch with Pastor Chun Kiwon, who has been helping North Koreans defect for the past 20 years.
The client also remotely installed a messaging application on Mira's computer, so that she could communicate with the pastor.
Pastor Chun Kiwon is well-known among North Korean defectors. North Korean state TV frequently attacks him, calling him a "kidnapper" and a "con-man".
Since setting up his Christian charity Durihana in 1999 he estimates he has helped about 1,200 defectors to safety.
He receives two or three rescue requests a month, but he found Mira and Jiyun's case particularly distressing.
"I've seen girls who've been imprisoned for up to three years. But I've never seen a case where they've been locked up for this long. It really breaks my heart."
Twelve days after escaping from the apartment, Mira and Jiyun met Chun for the first time.
"I think I'm perfectly safe only when I receive citizenship in South Korea. But just meeting pastor Chun made me feel safe. I cried at the thought of having found freedom," says Jiyun.
Together, they travelled by car for a further 27 hours to the nearest South Korean embassy.
Chun claims the trafficking of female defectors has become more organised and that some North Korean soldiers guarding the border are involved.
The trafficking of women is sometimes referred to as the "Korean pig trade" by the locals living in the border region of China. The women's price can range from hundreds to thousands of US dollars.
Although official statistics are hard to obtain, the UN has raised concerns about high levels of trafficking of North Korean women.
The US State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons Report has consistently designated North Korea as one of the worst human trafficking nations.
"The defectors often get car sick and sometimes faint after vomiting so much. It's a hellish road, travelled by those seeking heaven."
Just before arriving at the embassy, Mira smiles nervously and says she feels like crying.
"I feel like I've come out of hell," says Jiyun. "Many feelings come and go. I may never see my family again if I go to South Korea and I feel guilty. That was not my intention of leaving."
Together the pastor and the young women entered the embassy gate. A few seconds later, only Chun returns. His job is done.
Mira and Jiyun will be flown directly to South Korea, where they will undergo a rigorous screening process by the national intelligence service to make sure they are not spies.
Then they will spend up to three months at the Hanawon resettlement centre for North Koreans, where they will be taught practical skills to adjust to their new life in South Korea.
Defectors learn how to do grocery shopping, how to use a smartphone, are taught the principles of the free market economy and receive job training. They can also receive counselling. Then, they will become official citizens of South Korea.
"I want to learn English or Chinese so I can become a tour guide," says Mira when asked about her dreams in South Korea.
"I want to live a normal life, drinking coffee in a cafe and chatting to friends," says Jiyun. "Somebody once told me that the rain will one day stop, but for me, the monsoon season lasted for so long that I forgot the sun existed."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-46610882
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