북한이탈주민의 사회일탈 예방을 위한 보안경찰의 역량강화 방안

Abstract

As you may well know, North Korean defectors entering South Korea have exceeded 20,000 people since the 1990's. Especially, while they are learning to adapt to the new society, their admiration and hope for the new country is turning into disappointment, and while they are learning South Korea's capitalism, the rate of turned refugees into criminals is on the rise as they become prisoners of distorted mammonism. In this process, North Korean refugees may become marginalized and be forced to harbor extreme hostility toward the South Korean society, thus driving them to commit hate crimes. Furthermore, social phenomena that may threat national security such as North Korean defectors returning to the North, an act that may benefit an enemy, are already taking place. However, what is worse is that the number of the security police assigned to help protect them is no more than 800 people. Allowing for the number of defectors reaching almost 24,000 people, we can easily assume that one police officer is in charge of more than 30 refugees. Unfortunately, the police is under mounting burden of not only protecting the safety of the refugees but also responsible for conducting counterintelligence activities to hunt down possible spies and for uncovering criminals who may threat security of the nation. The research made following policy proposals in order to achieve the purpose of planning to enhance the capability of the security police to prevent social deviance of North Korean defectors. First, it is necessary to reestablish the role of security officers. Second, it is desperately needed to assign a customized security officer. It is important that each refugee is placed with an appropriate person by his or her gender, age, religion and other various factors to meet the needs of an individual defector. Third, it is urgent to enhance professional education of the security police. Fourth, it is an essential prerequisite to increase the number of the security police. Finally, we suggested as an alternative that it is a priority to build up a local network lead by the security police.