Uploaded by vanlaer101
on Apr 5, 2011
While I was in Phnom Penh in March, one
of my vendors took us to a restaurant owned and run by North Koreans.
All of the girls at the restaurant were musicians or dancers of one
kind or another. This is a sample of their entertainment. 
By Nathan Schwartzman Jun 16, 2012
Original article in Korean is at this link.
A man who defected from North Korea and
now has South Korean citizenship has been arrested on charges stemming
from the kidnapping of a female worker from a North Korean restaurant in
Cambodia last year. However, the woman is shown in a video to have been
not kidnapped but rather asking the South Korean man who has been
arrested to take her to the border. The video is expected to free the
man, who is currently detained by Cambodian authorities. Below is a TV
Chosun report.
[Anchor]
Last year a female worker in a North
Korean restaurant in Cambodia disappeared. A Korean man has been
arrested by Cambodian police on charges of kidnapping the woman, and is
currently detained. Appearing to have vanished, the woman was mistakenly
thought to have been kidnapped.
The Korean man, Mr. Kim visited Cambodia last month and was arrested by police at the airport.
One year ago, the woman, Ms. Mun,
disappeared while working in the North Korean restaurant in Cambodia,
apparently because of Mr. Kim. A North Korean official residence
released the security camera evidence from the restaurant which led to
Mr. Kim being accused of kidnapping and murder.
However, Ms. Mun has reappeared after one year — on video.
[Video] Ms. Mun
“Right now I am crossing the border into a
third country where I will live in safety… I am thinking of the Korean
who has been arrested and feel responsible for it, and so now I am
releasing this internet video to explain everything so that this
incident may be correctly understood although not every mystery can be
explained.”
Ms. Mun says in the video that she feels
sorry for Mr. Kim, who was her regular customer, and that she has not
gone to South Korea.
[Video] Ms. Mun
“I asked him to take to a nearby shop,
just asked it naturally, and once in the car I said I couldn’t return to
the restaurant and thoughtlessly went near the border and sincerely
asked him to help me…”
Mr. Kim is currently detained in Cambodia on kidnapping charges, and is waiting for his trial to begin at the end of this month.
Mr. Kim is a North Korean defector and is
known to have received threats from North Korea since leaving. Our
government is expected to speak with Mr. Kim to reach a solution once
Ms. Mun’s video has been received by the court.
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