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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear friends and colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Scott raises the question of native speakers of English
(etc)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>as copy-editors - also known as 'polishers' - in North
Korea.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Having in the past recruited at least two people for such
roles</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- Michael Harrold, and the late Andrew Holloway <A
href="http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html">http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- this is a topic about which I'm curious, but not
up-to-date.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Michael, Andrew and others were hired by the DPRK</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Foreign Languages </FONT><FONT size=4>Publishing House (FLPH).
The texts</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>they worked on were mostly books, as best I
recall.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>By contrast, I've never heard of KCNA using
foreigners.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>My guess would be that they don't, given some
stilted</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>expressions and the odd mistake.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>For example, surely if a native English speaker
were</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>involved they would have recommended a different
word</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- be it technical or colloquial - for "bottom hole" in
the </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>third sentence of the </FONT><FONT size=4>caption to the
cartoon below.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>There are other linguistic infelicities here as
well,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>not least the title. Either tear apart or tear to
pieces,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>but not tear apart to pieces.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>(</FONT><FONT size=4>On the substance: In my article I likened
doing the research</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>for this to wading through sewage. You can see
why.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- But back to polishers. FLPH still uses at least one, but he
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>lives in Beijing. See an interesting interview with
Paul White</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>at Tad Farrell's ever more indispensable
NKNews:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.nknews.org/2012/04/the-british-voice-of-kim-il-sung/"><FONT
size=3>http://www.nknews.org/2012/04/the-british-voice-of-kim-il-sung/</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Kind regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Aidan FC</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>From <A
href="http://www.kcna.kp/2mb/eindex.html">http://www.kcna.kp/2mb/eindex.html</A> (cartoon
5)</FONT></DIV>
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<CENTER><B><FONT face=Cambria>Tear Apart Lee Myung Bak to
Pieces</FONT></B></CENTER><BR><FONT face=Cambria>The dirty hairy body of
rat-like Myung Bak is being stabbed with bayonets. One is right in his neck and
the heart has already burst open. Blood is flowing out of its filthy bottom
hole. This is not too much to Lee as he committed only sordid acts of flunkeyism
and treachery. And this is not all. It is the strong will and pledge of the army
and people of the DPRK to tear apart Lee Myung Bak to
pieces</FONT>.</TD></TR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>_______________</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>In a message dated 5/20/2012 11:27:17 GMT Daylight Time,
jsburgeson@yahoo.com writes:</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>Thanks for the great article, Aiden! Did you have to put
bandaids on your eye-balls after reading so much slashing, violent
fulmination?
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Any chance you can dig up photos of some of the foreign devils who
copy-edited this stuff in English? One wonders if they have PTSD by now;
hopefully they were sharp enough to ask in advance to be paid in
soju!</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR>--- On <B>Fri, 5/18/12, Aidan Foster-Carter
<I><afostercarter@aol.com></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From:
Aidan Foster-Carter <afostercarter@aol.com><BR>Subject: [KS] (no
subject)<BR>To: Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws<BR>Date: Friday, May 18,
2012, 9:56 AM<BR><BR>
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face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif">
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>Dear friends and colleagues,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>Just to let you know that the new issue of <EM>Comparative
Connections</EM></FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>- the thrice-yearly online journal published by Pacific
Forum-CSIS -</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>includes what I think is the first full account and detailed
analysis</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>in English of </FONT><FONT size=4>North
Korea's ongoing bloodthirsty fulminations</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>against </FONT><FONT size=4>South Korea and especially its
President, Lee Myung-bak.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4></FONT> </DIV>
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size=4>
<DIV><FONT size=4>In over 40 years of following North Korea, I've read
tons of rich</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>DPRK invective - but never anything as bizarre and
nasty as this.</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>(They don't much care for Park Geun-hye, either; for all
that she</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>dined with Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang less than a decade
ago.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
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size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>In case of interest, this article is freely available to all
at</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><A
style="COLOR: blue; CURSOR: pointer"
title=http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf
href="http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><FONT
size=4>http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>The full issue, which as ever also has three further articles
on Korea</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>covering the two Koreas' relations with the US, China
and Japan,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>can be accessed at </FONT><A
style="COLOR: blue; CURSOR: pointer"
title=http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections
href="http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections" rel=nofollow
target=_blank><FONT
size=4>http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections</FONT></A></DIV>
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size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV
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size=4>All good wishes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: 'Book Antiqua'; FONT-SIZE: large"><FONT
size=4>Aidan FC</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria" lang=EN-GB>Aidan
Foster-Carter</SPAN></B></DIV>
<DIV style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class=yiv1907971737MsoNormal><FONT
size=3><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Cambria" lang=EN-GB>Honorary
Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds
University, UK</SPAN></I><SPAN
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