[특파원 리포트] North Korean restaurant employee suspected of group defection
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In recent years, controversy has spread over the case of a North Korean restaurant employee who went to North Korea two years ago. As the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in North Korea asked for clarification of the truth after the visit, it is argued that this is a useless controversy.
South Korea's public prosecutor for the Democratic Society (Minshin) urged prosecutors to conduct thorough and timely investigations into the defections of North Korean catering workers in China on 17 October.
] In May, the ministry accused Lee Byung-ho, former head of the National Security Agency, of violating the NIS law, that the NIS had planned a collective escape.
Ms. Min, a lawyer at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said, "I did not think the investigation was going well," Jang said. 19659003] [녹취 : 장경욱 변호사] "Our accusation is not a quick and thorough investigation?" That means knocking on the door as accusers. "
The attorney stated that any person who met the restaurant staff would consider the business as a North Korean defectors planned and deserted.
In addition, he stated that the issue of restaurant employees should be treated with respect for their free will and that there is no problem.
In response to the VOA's question, the Special Rapporteur on human rights in North Korea by the North Korean human rights expert, Thomas Ohea Quintana, And that was discovered.
In response to the question of what are the specific details of the defect, I asked the interviewer, who got some of the restaurant employees interviewed
During this time, on the 15th of last month, the allegation that the national intelligence service intervened in the North Korean restaurant employees in South Korea by capitulation and intimidation led them to a director of restaurant It came out again through the mouth of.
On January 17, the Department of Justice said: "We urge the investigation of specific facts through an independent agency capable of conducting an objective investigation on the North Restaurant Group -Koreans in China ".
In addition, the Democratic Party legislator Song Jae-seok and the legislator of the Democratic Party for Peace Chun Jung-bae also urged the media to clarify the truth through press conferences and press releases. Press. "src =" https://gdb.voanews.com/99744B38-7E8D-46C6-B3DE-AC5E0927480D_w250_r0_s.jpg "/>
The North Korean Refugee Human Rights Alliance held a press conference on North Korean refugees from Fountain Square in front of Cheong Wa Dae on 17
However, the groups North Korean human rights defenders and North Korean human rights experts criticize the fact that investigative investigations provoke unnecessary controversy and do not help in any way the restaurant employees.
They insisted that they should not send the restaurant workers back to North Korea. This group is the representative of Lee Tong-he.
[녹취: 이통일 대표] "The Unification Ministry has made it clear to us that we have come to South Korea of our own free will, and we can not trust this intention to re-examine it and send it back a once it's been verified. "
The group claims that there is a serious threat to the safety and human rights of these employees while the problems of planning and maintaining Escape from the restoration workers resurface.
The representative Kim Tae – hoon of the meeting of the lawyers for the unification of the rights of the man on the peninsula said during a telephone conversation with VOA on the 18th, the question of restaurant employees is already closed
[녹취: 이통일 대표] "I have already completed my doctoral review process on two years of research.
Kim said that the Korean government clarified that all court proceedings had been completed, and that it was no longer possible He said the issue should not be challenged
Lee Jung-hoon, former ambbadador to the North Korean Ministry of Human Rights, said it was doubtful that restaurant employees could now freely express their opinions.
[녹취: 이정훈 전 대사] "Of course, I can not think of safety for my family or a parent. "
This former ambbadador responded that the Quintana Special Rapporteur was reluctant to ask a restaurant employee a question about what he intended to do.I do not understand why they are filing and the situation of employees and their families will become difficult.
The Korean government is stuck with its current position that restaurant workers have escaped freely, White House spokesman Bae Tae- hyun, reaffirmed the government's position at the regular briefing of the 16th.
[녹취: 백태현 대변인] "I have said it many times, and the government's basic position is unchanged. "
A spokesman said that it is inappropriate to respond individually to the director of the restaurant manager that the NIS intervened.
In the middle of this, there was a new suspicion that the Army intervened.
The Department of Information and Communications of the Department of Defense commanded the manager and employees of a North Korean restaurant in China, and NIS has since intervened in the process entry into the country by third countries.
However, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, Choi Hyun-soo, reiterated the statement at a regular briefing on the issue of Journalists, not the Department of Defense.
[녹취: 최현수 대변인] "It's a North Korean flaw, is not it? I know that there is a department responsible for defectors.
Thirteen people, including the North Korean Restaurant Manager and 12 employees, work at Ryukgye Restaurant in Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. In exile.
North Korea calls for repatriation, claiming that the South Korean government kidnapped them by force
VOA News by Lee Yeoncheol in Seoul.
