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Defectors want to tell Mr. Pence … Posted : 2018-02-09 09:48 Updated : 2018-02-09 09:49 | <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4057627710294156" data-ad-slot="4742656921" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: keep-all; display: inline-block; width: 47px; height: 600px;"></ins> |
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By Oh Young-jin
Two defectors, who are not included in the list of North Korean defectors to meet visiting U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, say that it is not time to let up pressure on Pyongyang.
"North Korea believes that it has never lost to the United States," said Lee Ae-ran, who defected in 1998. "In the 1968 kidnapping of U.S spy ship Pueblo, the U.S. yielded. During the 1976 ax killing at the truce village of Panmunjom, it was the U.S. who first blinked. Or so the North thinks."
Lee was left alone with her dad when her family fled to the South and was later plucked from the North by her mother who had lived in the South.
"The North thinks that the U.S. would do the same as before," she said. "Kim Jong-un (the North Korean leader) believes he will be able to achieve the ‘strong, big nation' by September next year."
In it, the North is a military power, while the South is an economic power, she said, adding that that is the North's unification format. "Guess which would be the dominating force between the two," Lee said.
Ken Eom, a defector who made it here in 2010, said the reason why the North canceled the South's performances in the North was for the protection of its regime.
"When South Korean singers Kim Yon-ja and Lee Hyo-ri performed in Pyongyang, it created a sensation -- CDs containing Kim's songs sold like hot cakes," he said. "If BTS and Twice, K-pop bands, come to Pyongyang, the North's system would be under a great deal of pressure," said Eom, who had a 10-year tour of military duty in the North Korean capital.
| Lee Ae-ran defected from North Korea in 1998 and is now a vocal critic of the North's regime. / Courtesy of Lee Aer-ran |
"If I meet Vice President Pence, my message is that don't waste money to counter the North's nuclear and missile programs with military force," Eom said. "Rather, send satellite receivers so North Korean residents will be able to watch Korean television programs."
He cited the content of National Assembly TV, a cable channel, as one that would be very popular and make North Koreans realize what is wrong with their system.
He said North Korean monitors who keep an eye on residents are not loyal to the government and choose to keep the satellite receivers, rather than turn them and their users in to authorities.
The two defectors were introduced by Casey Lartigue Jr, leader of the nongovernmental organization Teach North Korean Refugees and The Korea Times columnist, when the Times requested a couple of defectors for comments before the Pence visit.
"They know what is at stake," Lartigue said. "That is why they are willing to speak to you, even though it risks retaliation by the North."
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence denounced the oppressive state of North Korea in a meeting with four North Korean defectors, Friday, on his visit to South Korea for the PyeongChang ... 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