<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:14pt"><div>I had the recent pleasure of taking part in the translation (from Korean to Japanese to English) of the lengthy interview of a female North Korean defector. That interview, which consisted of 13 questions and answers, was never-before published in English, or in South Korea for that matter. We are currently attempting to have her interview published in South Korea and in Russia. </div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">My translator informed me that the translation was not easy for a number of reasons. First, places and geographic names have various spellings. And second, how the Korean language is used in North Korea is not the same as how it is used in South
Korea.</div><div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">If true, one explanation might be that while both North and South Korea were under Japanese occupation-domination since the earth 20th Century, <span style="background-color: transparent;">Russia has been a strong influence on North Korea and the U.S. has been a strong influence on South Korea since the end of WWII.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Would anyone like to
comment on this, and cite specific examples?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 19px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Bill Streifer</span></div> </div></body></html>