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크리스마스 날 북한을 자유롭게 하라, 국경을 개방해 식량과 의약품을 북한동포에게 전달하도록 하라, 정치범수용소를 해체하라는 편지를 휴대하고 북한에 들어간 로버트 박 선교사님은 43일만에 풀려났다.
워싱턴 포스트에 보도된 로버트 박 선교사 석방과 미국도착 때까지의 슬라이드 사진을 통해 북한독재정권이 협박과 강요에 의하여 북한에 종교의 자유와 인권이 보장되고 북한당국이 그를 잘 보호했다는 기자회견에 숨겨진 진실을 발견하기 바란다.
창백하고 초췌하고 피로가 역력한 그의 표정과 입을 다물어 버리고 침묵하는 그의 굳은 얼굴은 모든 진실을 우리에게 전해 준다.
북한동포에 대한 그의 한없는 사랑을 악이용해 시한을 정해 크리스찬, 정치범, 할머니 친척인 북한동포들을 죽이겠다는 협박 때문에 부득이 거짓 기자회견을 할 수 밖에 없었을 것이다.
그가 순교를 할 수 있었지만 북한의 가증스런 협박과 강요를 미국정부에 알려야 할 의무 때문에 그가 살아서 돌아온 것이 아닐까?
오바마정권과 이명박정권과 인류는 깨달아야 한다.
누구보다도 북한동포의 해방을 순교자정신으로 얻으려했던 그가 왜 갑자기 돌변한 기자회견을 하게 되었을까?
북한독재정권의 협박과 강요가 북한동포에 대한 그의 한없는 사랑을 악용한 가증스런 조폭정치에 북한해방의 필요성을 더욱 깨닫게 된 계기가 되기를 희망한다.
워싱턴 포스트 기사를 소개하면 다음과 같다.
Missionary who was held in N. Korea arr
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Sunday, February 7, 2010; 12:22 AM
LOS ANGELES -- An American missionary who strode illegally into North Korea on Christmas Day and was detained by the communist regime for 43 days was welcomed back to the United States Saturday evening in an emotional reunion with family members at Los Angeles International Airport.
Robert Park was greeted by his parents and brother in a private location at the airport after arriving on a commercial flight from Beijing. Earlier Saturday, the 28-year-old Korean-American from Tucson, Ariz., flew to the Chinese capital from Pyongyang.
The family stopped briefly as they left the airport in their car. A thin and pale Park wouldn't speak and kept his eyes downcast while his brother, Paul Park, told reporters that he's in good condition.
"Hugging him, there didn't seem to be anything broken," he said.
Robert Park crossed the frozen Tumen River from China into North Korea on Dec. 25, carrying letters calling on leader Kim Jong Il to close the country's notoriously brutal prison camps and step down from power - acts that could have risked execution in the hard-line communist country.
The family didn't know Robert Park had planned to cross into North Korea until about 14 hours before he did it, Paul Park said. He said they were informed of the plan during an international phone call. He didn't specify any further.
"I have to admit, I didn't believe it until I saw it on the international news," Paul Park said of his brother's crossing into North Korea. "To say that the family wasn't prepared would be putting it mildly."
Park didn't respond to questions from reporters when he arrived in Beijing about whether he had been speaking freely or under duress.
North Korea's constitution guarantees freedom of religion but the government severely restricts religious observance, only allowing worship - primarily by foreigners - at sanctioned churches. Defectors say underground worship and the distribution of Bibles can mean banishment to a labor camp or execution.
KCNA said Park told the news agency he had felt compelled to go to North Korea to draw attention to reported rights abuses and mass killings, even if it meant risking his life.
North Korea is regarded as having one of the world's worst human rights records, with some 154,000 political prisoners held in six camps across the country, according to the South Korean government.
Friends and family were startled and thrilled by the sudden release of Park, who was once described by his pastor as "unusually serious" when it came to religion.
"We are just elated that he's been released safely," the Rev. Madison Shockley, a Park family pastor in Carlsbad, California, said by phone earlier Saturday. "We cannot wait for him to land on American soil and to hear the truth of what he discovered there."
Shockley said Park's parents, both Korean immigrants, were told of the release by the State Department on Friday.
"We finally can relax," said the Rev. John Benson, a pastor in Tucson, who ordained Park as a missionary. "We still had a little bit of reservation while he was still in North Korea. There was always a chance that they could change their mind."
Paul Park said he was left completely speechless when he first spotted his brother walking off the plane. He said Robert Park cried during the encounter.
The family planned to feed him spaghetti for dinner - his favorite meal growing up.
"Right now, the biggest thing is, we love him and we're excited to have him back," Paul Park said. "And I'm really excited because I got to make probably the biggest of my New Year's resolutions, which was to get him back home and give him a hug."
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Associated Press writers Cara Anna and Charles Hutzler in Beijing, Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles, Walter Berry in Phoenix, Elliot Spagat in San Diego, and Jean H. Lee and Kwang-tae Kim in Seoul contributed to this report.
North Korea announced Friday that Park would be freed.
The family didn't have time during their brief airport reunion to ask whether he had been mistreated by North Korean officials, Paul Park said. They also didn't get a chance to ask him about a statement that North Korea attributed to him on Friday, he said.
North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency quoted Park as saying he was ashamed of the "biased" view he once held of the country.
Park said he was now convinced "there's complete religious freedom for all people everywhere" in North Korea, citing the return of the Bible he carried as he entered the country and a service he attended at Pongsu Church in Pyongyang, KCNA said.
"I would not have committed such crime if I had known that the (North) respects the rights of all the people and guarantees their freedom and they enjoy a happy and stable life," it quoted him as saying.
Park didn't respond to questions from reporters when he arrived in Beijing about whether he had been speaking freely or under duress.
North Korea's constitution guarantees freedom of religion but the government severely restricts religious observance, only allowing worship - primarily by foreigners - at sanctioned churches. Defectors say underground worship and the distribution of Bibles can mean banishment to a labor camp or execution.
KCNA said Park told the news agency he had felt compelled to go to North Korea to draw attention to reported rights abuses and mass killings, even if it meant risking his life.
North Korea is regarded as having one of the world's worst human rights records, with some 154,000 political prisoners held in six camps across the country, according to the South Korean government.
Friends and family were startled and thrilled by the sudden release of Park, who was once described by his pastor as "unusually serious" when it came to religion.
"We are just elated that he's been released safely," the Rev. Madison Shockley, a Park family pastor in Carlsbad, California, said by phone earlier Saturday. "We cannot wait for him to land on American soil and to hear the truth of what he discovered there."
Shockley said Park's parents, both Korean immigrants, were told of the release by the State Department on Friday.
"We finally can relax," said the Rev. John Benson, a pastor in Tucson, who ordained Park as a missionary. "We still had a little bit of reservation while he was still in North Korea. There was always a chance that they could change their mind."
Paul Park said he was left completely speechless when he first spotted his brother walking off the plane. He said Robert Park cried during the encounter.
The family planned to feed him spaghetti for dinner - his favorite meal growing up.
"Right now, the biggest thing is, we love him and we're excited to have him back," Paul Park said. "And I'm really excited because I got to make probably the biggest of my New Year's resolutions, which was to get him back home and give him a hug."
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Associated Press writers Cara Anna and Charles Hutzler in Beijing, Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles, Walter Berry in Phoenix, Elliot Spagat in San Diego, and Jean H. Lee and Kwang-tae Kim in Seoul contributed to this report.
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예수 그리스도의 아가페 사랑의 통제를 넘치는 감사와 찬송으로 구해 얻어 누려야 한다. 그것이 인생이다.
예수 그리스도와 함께하지 아니하는 자는 예수를 반대하는 자요 함께 모으지 않는 자는 헤치는 자니라.
예수 그리스도의 피의 속죄와 아가페 사랑의 통제로 하나님과 화목을 누리는 것이 곧 인간의 성공이다.
예수 그리스도는 만유의 주인이시고 만왕의 왕 만주의 주이시다. 그분이 쓰실 사람을 세우는 공의를 훼멸하는 선관위와 사조직은 반드시 그 상응의 대가를 치뤄야 한다.
예수 그리스도의 성민으로 세우시는 하나님의 뜻을 따라 선거사기를 이기고 나라를 새롭게 하도록 기도하자.