Hello All,<div><br></div><div>The following article is proof that the Rodong Sinmun doesn't have Polishers, Copy Editors or even Copyboys, foreign or otherwise. </div><div><br></div><div>Yoo Kwang-On </div><div><br></div>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p align="center" style="font-size:14px;text-indent:5px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:5px;line-height:25px;font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif"><font face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif" color="#000080" size="4">Paektusan General Museum to Be Built</font></p>
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The Paektusan (Mt. Paektu) General Museum will be constructed in the Samjiyon district. It will give a wide-range knowledge as a center for the education in the revolutionary traditions comprehensively showing the revolutionary relics and the grand nature in the area around Mt. Paektu.</p>
<p class="ArticleContent" style="font-size:10pt;text-indent:10pt;margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:4pt;line-height:19px;font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">The great General Kim Jong Il said that the explorers and visitors should know the immortal revolutionary exploits of the peerlessly great persons and the lofty love for the fatherland of the anti-Japanese revolutionary forerunners and everybody, if he or she is Korean, should have knowledge of Mt. Paektu. The visitors will deeply realize once again the validity of these words through their inspection of the museum.</p>
<p class="ArticleContent" style="font-size:10pt;text-indent:10pt;margin-bottom:4pt;margin-top:4pt;line-height:19px;font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif;text-align:justify">Officials, researchers and employees of the Central Commanding Office of the Shock Brigade 618, the Revolutionary Relics Administration Guidance Bureau, various institutes under the State Academy of Sciences, the History Institute under the Academy of Social Sciences, the Central Information Agency for Science and Technology, General Exploration Party on Lake Chon on Mt. Paektu, Paektu Museum and many other units are making every sincere effort to build the general museum well.</p>
<p align="right" style="font-size:14px;text-indent:5px;margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:5px;line-height:25px;font-family:verdana,arial,sans-serif">Correspondent Jon Chol Ju</p><div><br></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div>
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<div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Jim Hoare <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@jhoare10.fsnet.co.uk" target="_blank">jim@jhoare10.fsnet.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The only polishers I meet or knew of in
the DPRK were foreign, and, as I said, they were phased out in 2001-02 on cost
grounds. According to the only one I ever talked to in any detail, they seemed
to be mainly used on the glossy magazines and <i><span style="font-style:italic">Pyongyang
Times, </span></i> rather than other publications. They could not change any
words or phrases relating to Kim Il Sung or Kim Jong Il. They were expected to
complete their work by Tuesday but the <i><span style="font-style:italic">Pyongyang
Times </span></i> did not go to press until Thursday, which allowed time
for the Korean staff to change things back to the way they wanted.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I never met any Korean-Americans or any
others with a Korean background who might have done this work. There are a lot
of North Koreans who have studied English abroad and who can write it in a satisfactory,
if not perfect, way. They include diplomats and their children; many of the
latter attend the Foreign Languages University on return to the DPRK andthen go
into work involving languages. We never received badly phrased texts from the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs even if the English was not exactly as I
might have written it.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">I have had a couple of conversations with
DPRK officials sine 2001 who have lamented the misuses of words in DPRK English-language
publications but who also indicated the difficulty in getting other
organizations to change their ways.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">As for “cutesy” images, I
blame Walt Disney and “Hello Kitty”….<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Jim Hoare<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><u></u> <u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> <a href="mailto:koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws" target="_blank">koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws" target="_blank">koreanstudies-bounces@koreaweb.ws</a>] <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On
Behalf Of </span></b>don kirk<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> 21 May 2012 22:18<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Korean Studies Discussion List</span></font></p><div><div><font face="Tahoma"><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [KS] Foreign
copy-editors and polishers in Pyongyang - andSeoul?</font></div></div><u></u><u></u><p></p><div><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Yes, really, since when are
"cutesy....kids" as "nauseating," almost, as the rat
images for Lee M.B.? For sure, they've got some "polishers" up
there who're up on idiomatic English, as indicated in the passage presented
by Scott. Would be interesting to know who they are, whether foreign or
Korean, possibly Korean-American.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Don Kirk<br>
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--- On <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Mon, 5/21/12, <a href="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank">Afostercarter@aol.com</a> <i><span style="font-style:italic"><<a href="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank">Afostercarter@aol.com</a>></span></i></span></b>
wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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From: <a href="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank">Afostercarter@aol.com</a> <<a href="mailto:Afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank">Afostercarter@aol.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [KS] Foreign copy-editors and polishers in Pyongyang - and
Seoul?<br>
To: <a href="mailto:koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws" target="_blank">koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</a><br>
Date: Monday, May 21, 2012, 6:54 AM<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Dear friends
and colleagues,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Jim makes an
important point. Foreign linguistic advisers<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">may get
overridden - and by no means only in Pyongyang.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Our List surely
includes some who have similarly proof-read<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">and polished
in the other Korea, or are doing so right now.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">I'd be
interested to hear their views and experience.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">This issue is
almost as hardy a perennial as romanization.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">But time and
again one still runs across South Korean<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">websites,
including those of large companies and official <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">bodies, where
the English just ain't right; sometimes badly so.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Thus the ROK
transport ministry <a href="http://english.mltm.go.kr/" target="_blank">http://english.mltm.go.kr</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">proclaims on
its homepage: "Make Happiness, Happy Creator".<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Amen to that
- but what on earth are they on about?<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Then again,
in one classic corporate case where Koreans <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">dreamed up an
'English' product name, the LG Viewty <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">has
sold very well. (Viewty is in the eye of the veholder?)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">- Another
thing. English apart, why are so many corporate<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">and
official South Korean websites festooned with cutesy birds
and butterflies, winsome kids, cartoon characters and the like? <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Almost as
nauseating, at the opposite end of the scale, as <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">North Korea's
bloody rats. (Perhaps I am hard to please.)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Kind regards<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Aidan FC<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold">Aidan Foster-Carter</span></font></b><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University, UK</span></font></i><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">_______________</span></font><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">In a message
dated 5/21/2012 08:02:22 GMT Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:jimhoare64@aol.co.uk" target="_blank">jimhoare64@aol.co.uk</a> writes:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">I agree that KCNA did
not seem to use polishers, The FLPH laid off the remaining foreign
staff while we were there in 2001-02 and thereafter seemed to relay on
Koreans - no doubt this explains the odd language. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">But even when they did
employ foreign staff, the Korean staff would often override what the native
speakers had suggested.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">On a slightly
different note, what use would one make of photographs of such people if one
had them? <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">Jim
Hoare<br>
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CC: jsburgeson <<a href="mailto:jsburgeson@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jsburgeson@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Sent: Sun, 20 May 2012 18:34<br>
Subject: Re: [KS] Foreign copy-editors and polishers in Pyongyang<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Dear friends
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Scott raises
the question of native speakers of English (etc)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">as
copy-editors - also known as 'polishers' - in North Korea.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Having in the
past recruited at least two people for such roles<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">- Michael
Harrold, and the late Andrew Holloway <a href="http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html" title="http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html" target="_blank">http://www.aidanfc.net/a_year_in_pyongyang.html</a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">- this is a
topic about which I'm curious, but not up-to-date.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Michael,
Andrew and others were hired by the DPRK<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Foreign
Languages Publishing House (FLPH). The texts<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">they worked
on were mostly books, as best I recall.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">By contrast,
I've never heard of KCNA using foreigners.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">My guess
would be that they don't, given some stilted<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">expressions
and the odd mistake.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">For example,
surely if a native English speaker were<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">involved they
would have recommended a different word<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">- be
it technical or colloquial - for "bottom hole" in the <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">third
sentence of the caption to the cartoon below.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">There are
other linguistic infelicities here as well,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">not least the
title. Either tear apart or tear to pieces,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">but not tear
apart to pieces.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(On the
substance: In my article I likened doing the research<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">for this to
wading through sewage. You can see why.)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">- But back to
polishers. FLPH still uses at least one, but he <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">lives in
Beijing. See an interesting interview with Paul White<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">at Tad
Farrell's ever more indispensable NKNews:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><a href="http://www.nknews.org/2012/04/the-british-voice-of-kim-il-sung/" title="http://www.nknews.org/2012/04/the-british-voice-of-kim-il-sung/" target="_blank"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">http://www.nknews.org/2012/04/the-british-voice-of-kim-il-sung/</span></font></a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Kind regards<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Aidan FC<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="3" color="black" face="Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold">Aidan
Foster-Carter</span></font></b><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><font size="3" color="black" face="Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style:italic;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Honorary
Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University, UK</span></font></i><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""> <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em><i><font size="3" color="black" face="Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">E</span></font></i></em><font color="black" face="Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Cambria">: <a href="http://us.mc394.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=afostercarter@aol.com" title="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank">afostercarter@aol.com</a>
<a href="http://us.mc394.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=afostercarter@yahoo.com" title="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com" target="_blank">afostercarter@yahoo.com</a>
<em><i><font face="Cambria"><span style="font-family:Cambria">W</span></font></i></em>:
<a href="http://www.aidanfc.net/" title="http://www.aidanfc.net/" target="_blank">www.aidanfc.net</a> </span></font><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">**************</span></font><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">>From <a href="http://www.kcna.kp/2mb/eindex.html" title="http://www.kcna.kp/2mb/eindex.html" target="_blank">http://www.kcna.kp/2mb/eindex.html</a> (cartoon
5)<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><img border="0" width="450" height="321"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><font size="4" color="black" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold">Tear Apart Lee Myung Bak to Pieces</span></font></b><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><br>
</span></font><font size="4" color="black" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family: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</span></font><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">In a message
dated 5/20/2012 11:27:17 GMT Daylight Time, <a href="http://us.mc394.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=jsburgeson@yahoo.com" title="mailto:jsburgeson@yahoo.com" target="_blank">jsburgeson@yahoo.com</a> writes:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thanks for the great article, Aiden! Did you have
to put bandaids on your eye-balls after reading so much slashing, violent
fulmination? <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">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!<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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--- On <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Fri, 5/18/12, Aidan Foster-Carter <i><span style="font-style:italic"><<a href="http://us.mc394.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=afostercarter@aol.com" title="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank">afostercarter@aol.com</a>></span></i></span></b>
wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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From: Aidan Foster-Carter <<a href="http://us.mc394.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=afostercarter@aol.com" title="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank">afostercarter@aol.com</a>><br>
Subject: [KS] (no subject)<br>
To: <a href="http://us.mc394.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws" title="mailto:Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws" target="_blank">Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws</a><br>
Date: Friday, May 18, 2012, 9:56 AM<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Just to let you know that the new issue of <em><i><font face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Comparative
Connections</span></font></i></em></span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">- the thrice-yearly online journal published by Pacific
Forum-CSIS -</span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">includes what I think is the first full account and detailed
analysis</span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">in English of North
Korea's ongoing bloodthirsty fulminations</span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">against South Korea and especially its President, Lee
Myung-bak.</span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">In over 40 years of following North Korea, I've read tons of
rich<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">DPRK invective - but never anything as bizarre and nasty as
this.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">(They don't much care for Park Geun-hye, either; for all
that she</span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">dined with Kim Jong-il in Pyongyang less than a decade ago.)</span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">In case of interest, this article is freely available to all
at</span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><a href="http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf" title="http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf" target="_blank"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">http://csis.org/files/publication/1201qnk_sk.pdf</span></font></a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">The full issue, which as ever also has three further articles
on Korea</span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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China and Japan,</span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">can be accessed at </span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><a href="http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections" title="http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections" target="_blank"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">http://csis.org/program/comparative-connections</span></font></a><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">All good wishes</span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><font size="4" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Aidan FC</span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><font size="5" color="black" face="Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Cambria;font-weight:bold">Aidan Foster-Carter</span></font></b><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><font size="3" color="black" face="Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-style:italic;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology
& Modern Korea, Leeds University, UK</span></font></i><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><em><i><font size="3" color="black" face="Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria">E</span></font></i></em><font color="black" face="Cambria"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Cambria">: <a href="mailto:afostercarter@aol.com" target="_blank">afostercarter@aol.com</a> <a href="mailto:afostercarter@yahoo.com" target="_blank">afostercarter@yahoo.com</a> <em><i><font face="Cambria"><span style="font-family:Cambria">W</span></font></i></em>: <a href="http://www.aidanfc.net/" title="http://www.aidanfc.net/" target="_blank">www.aidanfc.net</a> </span></font><font size="5" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua""><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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