출처 : http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2008/02/17/69/0301000000AEN20080217001300315F.HTML
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- A group of 22 North Koreans who had been returned home after their boats drifted into South Korean waters were all immediately executed by North Korean authorities, a source here said Sunday.
Two fishing boats carrying the 22 North Koreans, including 14 women and three teenagers, drifted into the western waters off South Korea's Yeonpyeong Island on Feb. 8 and were sent back home after South Korean interrogators found they had no intention to defect, the National Intelligence Service said in a press release on Saturday. The North Koreans were residents of Kangnyeong County, North Korea's southern coastal province of South Hwanghae, who went to sea to collect clams and oysters without authorization from the North Korean maritime agency, the intelligence service said.
The report of their return by South Korean authorities came after the mass circulation Chosun Ilbo broke the report in its weekend edition.
A source well-versed in North Korea told Yonhap News Agency, however, that the drifters were all executed immediately after returning home early last week. The provincial branch of North Korea's National Security Agency shot and killed them secretly, the source said.
Of the group, 16 were extended family members and eight others were their neighbors, according to the South Korean intelligence agency.
"A rumor spread in South Hwanghae Province that (the security agency) secretly executed the 22 people immediately after they were returned," the source said.
"People in the province are shocked by the fact that all of the 22 people were shot and killed with no exception, such as being sent to a prison camp," the source said.
South Korean intelligence officials, contacted by Yonhap News Agency, said they were not aware of the rumored execution and would try to verify it.
South Korean intelligence acknowledged there is a possibility that the returnees were executed because of their unauthorized fishing.
"I'm not aware of whether they were executed or not, but that's possible because they went fishing with no authorization from the North Korean maritime authorities," a government official said, requesting anonymity.
Given the large number of North Koreans spotted aboard, suspicions had been raised that they were seeking asylum but forced to go back. The intelligence authorities, however, denied speculation that it was a defection attempt.
"We found they were swept by currents into South Korean waters as they were going to gather clams," an intelligence official said on Saturday requesting anonymity. "Since they wanted to return home, we sent them back using an overland route that evening."
Officials cited South Korean policy to accept all North Korean defectors. Four found asylum after their wooden vessel drifted onto Yeonpyeong Island in May last year, following the defection of five North Koreans drifting on a small vessel in 2006.
오늘 회화 주제 였는데 얘기를 하는 내내 이런 일이 실제로 있어나 의문이 들어 인터넷에 돌아 다니는 기사를 찾아 보니 꽤나 여러곳에서 검색이 되네요. 거짓은 아닌것 같은데....
조선일보가 껴있거 보니ㅡㅡ;; 흐흠 거기가 이슈도 안된 내용이고
어째든, 대충 간략히 내용만 설명하자면...
2월 8일 북한 주민 22명(여 14명, 10대 3명, 그리고 성인남자)이 어선을 타고 해류에 밀려 한국 연평도 부근에 표류 되었다. 이들은 망명을 의도하고 서해안을 넘어 온게 아니라 단순히 표류되었다면 다시 북한으로 돌아가기를 원했다고 한다.
한국 정부는 이들의 의견에 22명 전원을 바로 북한으로 돌려 보냈다. 그런데 들리는 소문에 의하면 이들일 돌아가자 마자 총살형을 당했다고 한다.
이거 사실맞어???
사실이 맞다면 왜 난 한번도 이 내용을 티비나 라디오에서 듣지 못했지???
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