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   According to the prosecution, the Korean-American private, identified only by his initial M, allegedly posted a satellite photo of the U.S.'s 2003 attack on Baghdad, Iraq, on an Internet bulletin board, contending that it depicted North Korea's deadly artillery attack against South Korea's border island of Yeonpyeong on Nov. 23.

A fake picture of North Korea's shelling on Yeonpyeong Island

   The picture was taken on April 2, 2003 and posted on the Web site of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), investigators said.

   The 20-year-old suspect, a soldier in the U.S. Army, downloaded the picture while surfing online and reposted it on the bulletin board, saying that he obtained high-quality information from the U.S. Army, they added.

   The photo, which showed a devastated area engulfed in black smoke, spread rapidly online, and local and international broadcasters including CNN cited the picture in reports.

   "The suspect passed off the Baghdad picture as a photo of the bombardment on Yeonpyeong Island and made people believe that the situation was more serious," said an official from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.

   "We informed the USFK of this illegality in order to declare our firm pledge to punish any illegal acts," said the official.

   About 28,500 U.S. troops are stationed in South Korea, a legacy of the Korean War that ended with a cease-fire, leaving the Korean Peninsula technically still at war.

(Yonhap News)

[ํ•œ๊ธ€๋‰ด์Šค]

์—ฐํ‰๋„ ํฌ๊ฒฉ ๊ฐ€์งœ์‚ฌ์ง„' ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์žฅ๋‚œ

๊ฒ€์ฐฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ์‚ฌ๋ณ‘ ์‹ ์› ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์— ํ†ต๋ณด

    (์„œ์šธ=์—ฐํ•ฉ๋‰ด์Šค) ๊ฐ•๊ฑดํƒ ๊ธฐ์ž = ์„œ์šธ์ค‘์•™์ง€๊ฒ€ ์ฒจ๋‹จ๋ฒ”์ฃ„์ˆ˜์‚ฌ2๋ถ€(๊น€์˜๋Œ€ ๋ถ€์žฅ๊ฒ€์‚ฌ )๋Š” ์ด๋ผํฌ ํญ๊ฒฉ ์žฅ๋ฉด์„ ๋‹ด์€ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋ถํ•œ์˜ ์—ฐํ‰๋„ ํฌ๊ฒฉ ํ˜„์žฅ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์†์—ฌ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท์— ๊ฒŒ์‹œํ•œ ๋ฏธ ์œก๊ตฐ ์‚ฌ๋ณ‘์˜ ์‹ ์›์„ ํ™•์ธํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ธก์— ํ†ต๋ณดํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  19์ผ ๋ฐํ˜”๋‹ค.

    ๊ฒ€์ฐฐ์— ๋”ฐ๋ฅด๋ฉด ํ•œ๊ตญ๊ณ„ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ ์ด๋ณ‘ M(20)์”จ๋Š” ์ง€๋‚œ๋‹ฌ 23์ผ ์˜คํ›„ 3์‹œ30๋ถ„๊ป˜ ํ•œ  ์ปค ๋ฎค๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํŒ์— `์„œ๋ฒ„์— ์œ„์„ฑ์‚ฌ์ง„ ๋–ด๋‹ค'๋Š” ์ œ๋ชฉ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋ผํฌ ๋ฐ”๊ทธ๋‹ค๋“œ ํญ๊ฒฉ ๋‹น์‹œ์˜ ์œ„์„ฑ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋ถํ•œ์˜ ์—ฐํ‰๋„ ํฌ๊ฒฉ ์‚ฌ์ง„์ธ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ ํ˜์˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด ์‚ฌ์ง„์€ ๋ฏธํ•ญ๊ณต์šฐ์ฃผ๊ตญ(NASA) ํ™ˆํŽ˜์ด์ง€์— ๊ฒŒ์žฌ๋œ 2003๋…„ 4์›”2์ผ ๋ฐ”๊ทธ๋‹ค๋“œ ํญ๊ฒฉ ์‚ฌ์ง„์œผ๋กœ, M์”จ๊ฐ€ ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ๊ฒ€์ƒ‰์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‚ด๋ ค๋ฐ›์€ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์กฐ์‚ฌ๋๋‹ค.

    ๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ํ•ด๋‹น ์ง€์—ญ์ด ์˜จํ†ต ๊ฒ€์€ ์—ฐ๊ธฐ๋กœ ํœฉ์‹ธ์ธ ๊ด‘๊ฒฝ์„ ๋‹ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์–ด ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€  ๋„คํ‹ฐ์ฆŒ ์ด ์ง„์งœ ์—ฐํ‰๋„ ํฌ๊ฒฉ ์žฅ๋ฉด์œผ๋กœ ์ฐฉ๊ฐํ•˜๊ณ  ๋‹ค๋ฅธ ํฌํ„ธ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ๋‚˜ ํŠธ์œ„ํ„ฐ ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ํผ๋‚ ๋ž๋‹ค.

    ์‹ฌ์ง€์–ด CNN์„ ๋น„๋กฏํ•œ ๊ตญ๋‚ด์™ธ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์‚ฌ๋“ค์ด ์—ฐํ‰๋„ ํฌ๊ฒฉ ์†๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ „ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ์ด  ์‚ฌ์ง„ ์„ ์ธ์šฉํ•˜๊ธฐ๋„ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    M์”จ๋Š” ๊ตญ๋‚ด์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ต๋ฅผ ์กธ์—…ํ•˜๊ณ ์„œ ์ง€๋‚œํ•ด ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฑด๋„ˆ๊ฐ€ ์›Œ์‹ฑํ„ด์ฃผ ์†Œ์žฌ ์œก๊ตฐ ๋ถ€๋Œ€์—์„œ ๋ณด๊ธ‰๋ณ‘์œผ๋กœ ๊ทผ๋ฌด ์ค‘์ด๋ฉฐ ํ‰์†Œ ๊ตญ๋‚ด ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ์— ์ž์ฃผ ์ ‘์†ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๊ฒ€์ฐฐ ์€ ์ „ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    M์”จ๋Š” ์ž์ฃผ ์ด์šฉํ•˜๋˜ ์‚ฌ์ดํŠธ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํŒ์— ์—ฐํ‰๋„ ํฌ๊ฒฉ์— ๊ด€ํ•œ ๊ธ€์ด ๋งŽ์ด ์˜ฌ๋ผ์˜ค์ž ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์—์„œ ๊ณ ๊ธ‰ ์ •๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ž…์ˆ˜ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ๊ณผ์‹œํ•˜๋ ค๊ณ  ์—‰ํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฒ€์ฐฐ์€ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

    ๊ฒ€์ฐฐ ๊ด€๊ณ„์ž๋Š” "M์”จ๋Š” ํญ๊ฒฉ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทน์‹ฌํ•œ ํ”ผํ•ด๋ฅผ ์ž…์€ ๋ฐ”๊ทธ๋‹ค๋“œ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์—ฐํ‰๋„ ์‚ฌ ์ง„์œผ๋กœ ์œ„์žฅํ•ด ์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท๊ณผ ๋ฐฉ์†ก์œผ๋กœ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ์ ‘ํ•œ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋“ค์ด ํ˜„์žฅ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์‹ค์ œ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ฌ๊ฐ ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ์˜ค์ธํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ค์—ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ์„ค๋ช…ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

    ์ด์–ด "์œ„๋ฒ• ํ–‰์œ„๋Š” ๊ตญ๋‚ด์™ธ๋ฅผ ๋ถˆ๋ฌธํ•˜๊ณ  ๋๊นŒ์ง€ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ๋ฌป๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ฒ™๊ฒฐ ์˜์ง€๋ฅผ  ๋ณด ์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ ์ž M์”จ์˜ ์œ„๋ฒ• ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ๋ฏธ๊ตฐ์— ํ†ต๋ณดํ–ˆ๋‹ค"๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

    ๊ฒ€์ฐฐ์€ ์—ฐํ‰๋„ ํฌ๊ฒฉ ์งํ›„ ํœด๋Œ€์ „ํ™” ๋ฌธ์ž๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€๋กœ ๊ฐ€์งœ ์ง•์ง‘๋ น ๋“ฑ์˜ ์œ ์–ธ๋น„์–ด๋ฅผ ํผ๋œจ๋ฆฐ ํ˜์˜(์ „๊ธฐํ†ต์‹ ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ฒ• ์œ„๋ฐ˜)๋กœ ์ง€๊ธˆ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ชจ๋‘ 28๋ช…์„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌ์† ๊ธฐ์†Œํ–ˆ๊ณ ,  ์ฃ„์งˆ ์ด ๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ 19๋ช…์€ ๋ณดํ˜ธ๊ด€์ฐฐ์†Œ ์‚ฌ์ด๋ฒ„๋ฒ”์ฃ„ ๊ตํ™”ํ”„๋กœ๊ทธ๋žจ์„ ์ด์ˆ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์กฐ๊ฑด์œผ๋กœ ์ž…๊ฑด ์œ ์˜ˆํ‚ค๋กœ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Dec. 19, 2010www.koreaherald.com/pop/NewsPrint.jsp