Renate Hong----Who can blame this German Woman?

Renate Hong
----Who can blame this German Woman?

A young German woman fell in love with a North Korean student at Yena University in the 1960s. Their first love overcame the national boundary line, color of skin, ethnic looks, and language differences. They married and the first son was born in a year and another pregnancy came in joy and happiness. Then, the young father had to return to North Korea. Recall from the Communist Party! They parted at the Yena Railroad Station with tears. He promised her that he would return. She did not doubt his words. However, his promise was not fulfilled in the following 48 years. In those 48 years, she wrote mountains of letters to the North Korean Government, the International Red Cross, the United Nations organizations, and South Korean president Kim Dae-jung who earned the Nobel Peace Prize to get back her husband. Finally, she received a letter of invitation from her husband in North Korea. She prepared multiple photo albums for hundreds of photos of their two sons from their childhood to adulthood. Then the despair: visa was denied from the North Korean embassy in Germany. She sent many letters again to North Korea and finally received the visa. She and her two sons were greeted by her husband and their father, and his daughter from his second marriage to a Korean woman at Pyoungyang airport. They spent three nights together. He handed a short note to her at her departure:
“I want to see you in Berlin next year!” Next year has not come yet. She does not know when next year will be.

Who can blame her fatal attraction to a North Korean student?

Who knows their love story?
All humankind should know and read their love story.
Their love story will touch all humankind.
They met when she was 21. Now, she is 71 years old.

Who drew the national boundary line?

Who invented the passport and visa?

Freedom to see her lover should be respected and admired with tears from our eyes.