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The power of the people asserted yesterday (20th) that the fishermen sent back to North Korea were not atrocities but, in fact, brokers who let North Koreans escape.

The opposition party is protesting that it is a lie, but we investigated the source of the contention the ruling party is claiming and whether it is a grounded story.



This is Hwa Kang-yoon, staff reporter.



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Yesterday, the People's Power Security Disturbance Investigation Task Force falsely defined the Moon Jae-in government's announcement that they were repatriated to North Korea as vicious criminals who killed 16 sailors.



[Han Ki-ho (Chairman of the People's Power Security Disturbance Investigation TF): In fact, these 16 people in Kimchaek City were residents of 5 families who were trying to escape from North Korea, and the fact that they killed 16 people is that North Korea lied to get these two defector brokers back. …

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The evidence was said to be the testimony of a North Korean resident given by a North Korean defector.



After SBS interrogated this North Korean defector, the contact was reached.



Choi, who defected from North Korea 10 years ago, said that she heard rumors floating around from a resident of Kimchaek-si last month.



[Mr. Choi (North Korean defector): What are the rumors coming out from there? These three are (North Korean defector) brokers, and now they are circulating as open rumors in Kimchaek.]



However, a similar claim came out right after the incident three years ago.



[Shim Jae-cheol (Liberal Korea Party floor leader/December 2019): In fact, there was a report saying that they are not sailors, but 'they are young men in their 20s who tried to defect North Koreans.'



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[Lee Ae-ran (Director of the Institute for Freedom and Unification Culture/December 2019): (These young men) acted as brokers to help defectors, and there is a story that North Korea (conspiracy to commit murder) to find the organization.]



The Democratic Party is on the second day He criticized the ruling party's false allegations, calling it the North Wind.



[Park Hong-geun (Democratic Party floor leader): It is hard to believe even the claims from the ruling party.

Please do not mislead the public any longer with false claims that do not provide adequate evidence.]



A key official of the current government told SBS that during the joint interrogation process, North Korean fishermen said they wanted to defect several times, but they did not call themselves North Korean defector brokers.



The point is that the government does not have any clues to prove the authenticity of the claim that is the message of the message.



(Video coverage: Kim Nam-seong, video editing: Jeong Seong-hoon)