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# 북조선의 노예 교육



나치스(Nazis)를 피해 숨어살다가 결국 집단수용소에서 숨진 네덜란드 유태인 소녀의 이야기 안네의 일기(Anne Frank's Diary)를, 북조선은 그 유태인 소녀가 자유와 평화를 원하는 부분을 번역판에서 제외시켜, 오로지 부시 대통령과 미국에 대한 적개심을 고조시키기 위한 교재로 이용하고 있다고 한다.



이 같은 충격적인 사실은, 이례적으로 북조선으로부터 취재허가를 받아 평양에 들어갔던 네덜란드 TV 바텔스만(Miriam Bartelsman) 기자에 의해 밝혀졌다.



세계식량계획(WFP, World Food Program)에 의하면 북조선의 7세 이하 어린이 50% 정도가 만성적 영양실조로 고통받고 있다고 한다. 그러나 평양에 있는 어린이들은 여기에 해당되지 않는다.



바텔스만 기자는 평양 시내에 있는 한 학교를 취재했다. 한 학생은 "위대한 김정일 장군님의 은혜로, 우리는 결코 안네(Anne Frank)와 같은 굶주림은 겪지 않을 것이라 확신한다." 라고 말한다. 또 다른 학생은 '안네의 일기' 중에서 한 구절을 읽었다.



"다른 곳에는 식량이 썩어나가는데 왜 굶주림이 있는가. 사람들이 왜 이렇게 제정신이 아닌 것인가."



바텔스만 기자가 학생들에게 안네의 질문에 대답할 수 있느냐고 질문하자 이번에도 그들의 선생이 이렇게 말하라고 알려주었다.



"왜 모든 곳에 식량이 분배되지 않는가. 왜냐하면 제국주의자 부르조아가 그것을 독차지 한다. 그렇기 때문에 프롤레타리아에게 돌아갈 것은 없다. 이렇게 말하라."



학생들은 선생의 말을 반복했다. 확실히 이 학생들은, 사회주의자 천국이라는 북조선에서 100만명 이상이 집단노동수용소에 잡혀 있다는 것을 알지 못하고 있다. 그런데도 안네의 덕택으로 나치 집단수용소에 대해서는 많이 알고 있다.



이것에서도 드러난 바와 같이 북조선 인민들에게 지금 필요한 것은 식량이 아니라 자유세계의 뉴스와 정보이며, 이것을 손쉽게 입수할 수 있도록 단파 라디오를 북조선 인민들에게 보내줘야 한다. 이 라디오 보내기 운동은 좌파 노무현 정권이 반대할 것이므로 비밀스럽게 조직적으로 지속적으로 전개할 필요가 있다.



조선인민군은 지금 한국군이 보리밥에 소금국도 제대로 못먹는 거지떼인 줄 알고 있다고 한 脫北者는 증언하고 있다. 북조선 인민들에게 자유세계의 뉴스와 정보는 곧 김정일 정권의 숨통을 끓어놓을 비밀무기인 것이다.









북한 안네의 일기 세뇌교육에 활용



연합뉴스 2004/03/07 22:12 송고



(런던=연합뉴스) 이창섭 특파원 = 북한은 '안네의 일기'를 중등학교 교재로 채택해 학생들이 조지 부시 미국 대통령을 히틀러와 같은 악마적인 존재로 믿도록 세뇌하는 도구로 사용하고 있다고 영국 일간지 텔레그래프가 7일 보도했다.



북한 전역의 중등학교에서는 나치 치하의 네덜란드에서 2년간 숨어 살아야 했던 유대인 소녀 안네 프랑크의 처지를 국제사회에서 고립된 북한과 직접 비유하고 부시 미국 대통령이 현대판 히틀러라고 가르치고 있다는 것.



신문에 따르면 북한의 한 학생은 네덜란드의 노바(Nova) TV 취재진과의 인터뷰에서 "전쟁광 부시는 히틀러와 같이 악한 인물이며 부시 때문에 우리가 항상 전쟁의 공포 속에 살고 있다"고 말했다.



다른 학생은 "세계 평화를 위해 미국은 파괴돼야 하며 그렇게 돼야 비로소 안네가 꿈꿨던 평화가 실현될 수 있다"고 말했고 한 여학생은 "미국인은 전쟁을 즐긴다. 그들은 전쟁에 광분하며 그것은 미국인의 본성이다"고 목소리를 높이기도 했다.



이런 보도에 대해 유대인 수용소에서 숨진 안네의 친척들은 북한이 안네의 일기를 악용하고 있다며 비난했다.



안네의 사촌 버디 엘리어스는 "그들이 하고 있는 일은 끔찍하고 극도로 혐오스러운 짓"이라면서도 "안네의 일기는 자유에 대한 사랑으로 가득 차 있다. 북한 학생들이 어떤 식으로 배우든 안네의 일기가 주는 진정한 메시지를 깨달을 것으로 믿는다"고 말했다.



안네의 일기는 매우 조심스럽게 선별된 외국 문학 작품의 하나로 12~16세 학생들에게 교육되고 있다.



한 학생은 "경애하는 지도자 김정일 위원장이 안네의 일기를 세계 최고의 고전 중 하나로 지목했기 때문에 지도자에 대한 존경심에서 안네의 일기를 읽는다"고 대답했다.



한편 현지 취재를 했던 노바 TV의 바텔스만 기자는 학생들이 "안네의 가족들은 숨어 살았다. 그래서 존경하지 않는다. 우리는 거지 같이 살기 보다는 나아가 싸울 것"이라고 말했다면서 "북한은 평화와 자유에 대한 갈구를 담은 안네의 일기를 전쟁을 부추기는 도구로 사용하고 있었다"고 말했다.



lcs@yna.co.kr









[CBS 60 MINUTES]



If Anne Frank Only Knew ...



Feb. 26, 2004



If you want to hear "hate" coming out of the mouths of

school kids, go to the schools of North Korea, as a Dutch

television crew did, and you'll hear hate from that

country's teenagers directed at the United States.



Western television reporters rarely get into North Korea,

but remarkably they let a Dutch television crew in to see

how they're using Holland's most famous book, "The Diary of

Anne Frank."



That diary, of her life in hiding during World War II, is

now being studied in North Korea's schools. But Anne Frank's

plea for peace and freedom got lost in translation.



North Korea is using her diary, not to teach how Anne

suffered at the hands of the German Nazis, but to warn the

students how they could suffer at the hands of those they

call "American Nazis."



Correspondent Mike Wallace reports.



"After reading this book, I had a hatred for the American

imperialists," says one student.



"That warmonger Bush is just as bad as Hitler. Because of

him we will always live in fear of war," says another

student.



But Anne Frank did not preach hate. Her diary is an

enchanting, if horrific, day-by-day account of the time this

Dutch teenager and her Jewish family spent hiding from the

Germans who had invaded and occupied Holland.



Anne, her parents and sister hid in a small apartment in an

attic in Amsterdam for more than two years. A bookcase

concealed their secret stairway, but the Nazis eventually

discovered them, and Anne died in a concentration camp when

she was only 15.



Now, Anne Frank's house is a shrine to the courage she

displayed, and the fear she lived with, under Hitler. Her

diary has been translated into more than a 100 languages.

Most recently, it was published in North Korea, where it's

now part of the curriculum in their junior high schools.



Anne's plea for peace is a curious message for these

students, because North Korea is constantly preparing for

war. Dictator Kim Jong Il spends the country's meager

resources maintaining a powerful military. And it turns out

that North Korea is using Anne's diary to tell students they

must sacrifice for the military -- because war with America

is inevitable.



"The Americans enjoy war. It excites them. It's part of

their nature," says one student.



Here, they teach that today's Nazis are the Americans - and

that today's Hitler is George W. Bush. And, to hammer that

home, whenever North Korean students refer to President

Bush, or to other Americans, they're taught to call

them "Nazis," or "warmongers."



"As long as the warmonger Bush and the Nazi Americans live,

who are worse than Hitler's fascists, world peace will be

impossible to achieve," says another student.



But of course, that bellicose message runs counter to what

Anne wrote in her diary: "You will understand that here in

the attic, the desperate question is often asked: Why, oh

why, go to war? Why can't people live in peace and why must

we destroy everything?"



Why do the North Korean student think there are still wars

in the world? "Because the cruel Americans want war,"

replies one student.



All this came as a shock to Miriam Bartelsman, the reporter

from Dutch television who received rare permission to come

to the capital city of Pyongyang to see how North Korea is

using Anne's diary.



For her report, she was allowed to talk with students about

what they're learning from the book. After returning to

Amsterdam, she told us that North Korea is simply turning

Anne's message on its head.



"Anne Frank's diary is a big plea or a big cry for freedom,

and for peace. But I think in North Korea, the diary is

being used to promote war," says Bartelsman.



These students sympathize with Anne, but according to

Bartelsman, they do not respect her.



"She didn't win. She was not a hero, and North Korea, they

are learning, the children, we all want to be a hero, and we

don't want to be killed," says Bartelsman.



"We know that Nazi America is certain to start a war with

us, but we will win that war," says one student.



"Our students will fight with a pen in one hand and a weapon

in the other until the last American is dead," adds another

student.



These youngsters parrot the words of North Korea's deputy

minister of education, who uses Anne's diary to teach

students that North Korea's top priority is to build a

stronger military to defeat the Americans.



And to make sure the students give that same answer, Dutch

television caught one teacher whispering to her students,

telling them just what to say to the Dutch reporter.



Teacher: Say that we don't want war, but that that is

impossible as long as our enemy lives. So for us war is

inevitable. We are not going to beg for peace. Instead, we

must crush our enemy without mercy.



Student: You should not beg for peace. As long as the

imperialists live, there will be no end to war.



"The most shocking thing is their comparison for President

Bush with Hitler. that is absolutely disgusting," says

Anne's cousin, Buddy Elias, who was her playmate and her

last living direct relative.



Elias was the one who approved giving North Korea the rights

to publish her diary, for a symbolic payment of less than

$2,000.



"We were not told that it would be misused in schools. That,

we had no idea," says Elias, who considers today's Hitler to

be Kim Jong-Il, North Korea's supreme leader. Kim insists

that whenever anyone mentions his name, they must first call

him respected or beloved.



And, in North Korea, teachers don't decide what their

students will read. Those instructions come down from the

top.



Why do the students think they were asked to read this

diary? "According to our respected leader Kim Jung Il,

the 'Diary of Anne Frank' is one of the great classics of

the world," says one student. "That is why we read the

diary -- out of great respect for our leader Kim Jung Il."



"Our respected Gen. Kim Jung Il, with his warm and caring

love for us students, gives us different foreign literature

every year in hope that we can expand our intellectual

development," adds another student. "The 'Diary of Anne

Frank' is part of that."



In North Korea, all art, all music, all pageants are created

to praise Kim Jong Il or his father, Kim Il-Sung, North

Korea's first leader.



But while these children of the elite sing of their leader

in Pyongyang, youngsters in the countryside are starving,

reveal pictures that were smuggled out of North Korea by a

German doctor. According to the World Food Program, almost

half of North Korea's children, under the age of 7, suffer

from chronic malnutrition. But not the children of the

establishment in Pyongyang.



"I'm certain that thanks to our beloved Gen. Kim Jung Il, we

will never experience hunger like Anne did," says one boy.



Another student read from the diary: "Why is there hunger

when food rots away elsewhere? Why are people so crazy?"



When Bartelsman asked students if they could answer Anne's

question, again their teacher told them just what to

say: "Why isn't food distributed everywhere? Because the

imperialist bourgeoisie take it -- that's why there is

nothing left for the proletariat. Just say that."



The student's response: "Food is taken by the imperialist

bourgeoisie, which is why there is nothing left for the

proletariat."



Apparently, these students don't know that in their

socialist paradise, up to a million people are now held in

slave labor camps. But thanks to Anne Frank, they do know a

lot about Nazi concentration camps.



Do they think that concentration camps like that still

exist?



"Yes, I think such camps still exist. As long as there are

American Nazis, there will be secret places where innocent

people are murdered," says one student. "Places like that

exist in America. The prisons in America are comparable to

concentration camps."



And apparently, these students have learned what they were

supposed to learn from Anne Frank's diary: When war with

America comes, don't be a loser like her.



Could they live in hiding the way that Anne and her family

did? "No," says one student. "I would go and fight, instead

of living like a beggar as Anne did."



"For world peace, America will have to be destroyed," adds

another student. "Only then, will Anne's wonderful dream of

peace come true."



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