월북한 미군 5: 제리 웨인 파리쉬 (Jerry Wayne Parrish)

5. 제리 웨인 파리쉬 (Jerry Wayne Parrish, March 10, 1944 – August 25, 1998)

켄터키 주 모간휠드 출신. 휴전선을 넘어간 탈영병으로 자세한 것은 비교적 잘 알려져 있지 않다. 젠킨스의 책에 그가 다른 미군 즉 앱셔, 드레스녹 그리고 그와 같이 장기간 합숙 세뇌 교육을 받았다. 후에 다른 세 명의 여자와 함께 레바논에서 납치 되어온 시암이라는 여자와 함께 결혼을 해서 세 명의 자녀를 두고 있다고 되어있다.

 

납치 되어온 네 명의 여자 중 한 사람이 부모와 연락이 되고 집단 납치 사실을 알게 된 레바논 정부가 항의하자 북한은 네 명을 모두 레바논으로 돌려보냈다. 그러나 시암은 임신한 것이 알려지자 부모는 그녀를 다시 북한의 패리쉬에게 돌려보냈는다. 그는 20년간이나 앓아온 신부전증으로 1996년 사망했고 그의 처와 자식들은 아직 북한에서 살고 있다.

Jerry Wayne Parrish (March 10, 1944 – August 25, 1998) was a former United States Army corporal who was one of four American soldiers to defect to North Korea after the Korean War.

He was born in Morganfield, Kentucky and was shipped to South Korea as a corporal in the U.S Army. Beginning in the 1960s, four Americans soldiers defected to North Korea. Larry Allen Abshier was the first to desert in May 1962 when he crossed the Demilitarized Zone and was apprehended by North Korea. Joe Dresnok, Jerry Parrish and Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins would follow Abshier across the border.[1] His reasons for defecting, according to Jenkins' autobiography The Reluctant Communist, were "personal, and [Parrish] didn't elaborate about them much except to say that if he ever went home, his father-in-law would kill him."

Along with three other defectors, he was eventually granted citizenship. He married a Lebanese woman, Siham Shrieteh, and together they had three sons, all of whom remain in North Korea. Jenkins, in his autobiography, claims that Siham and three other Lebanese young women were lured to North Korea under false pretenses, then married to the Americans. However, one of the girls had well-connected parents and got all four returned. Siham was already pregnant, though, so her family sent her back to North Korea. Siham appears in the film Crossing the Line, and vehemently denies the allegations that she was kidnapped or forced to go to North Korea, affirming that she is there by choice. Also according to the film, Parrish died after 20 years of kidney trouble. Siham and their children remain in North Korea.[위키페디아]

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