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--></style></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>1. Yes Volume 2 of the English edition <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>2. Yes, it is in ENGLISH as you asked for an authoritative ENGLISH translation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>3. Titles in English version: Note British English spelling<o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoPlainText style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'>Law on agrarian reform in North Korea. March 5 1946. Pp. 91-94<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoPlainText style='mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'>Labour law for the workers and office employees in North Korea. pp. 242-247.<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoPlainText>4. ‘True reproduction’ question. <o:p></o:p></p><ul style='margin-top:0cm' type=disc><li class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'>To my knowledge, the original was not produced in English.<o:p></o:p></li><li class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3'>If the question is whether the 1992 English version is an accurate version if the 1946 Korean version, I don’t know of an instance when the North Korean translations of legislation has been altered. What normally happens is if the legislation itself is amended, those amendments will also be published. Translations may or may not be available for every piece of NK legalisation but here is a mountain of it<o:p></o:p></li></ul><p class=MsoPlainText>5. Be aware, these are only discrete pieces of legislation. There is lots more on agriculture and labour law and labour consitis, even in 1946. So they are part of a package.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Best<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Hazel<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Hazel Smith PhD FRSA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Professorial Research Associate, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Professor Emerita of International Security, Cranfield University, UK<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington DC, 2019/ 2020<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Member Global Futures Council on Korea World Economic Forum<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>+44 (0) 784 174 5233<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><a href="https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff86150.php"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff86150.php</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>https://soas.academia.edu/SmithHazel<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>On 06/11/2020, 07:11, "Koreanstudies on behalf of Frank Hoffmann" <koreanstudies-bounces@koreanstudies.com on behalf of hoffmann@koreanstudies.com> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Thank you Hazel.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> I have presently no way to get that volume. But thanks to your <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> information I could just get a PDF of the Korean language version of <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> these two laws, as reproduced in _Kim Il-sŏng chŏnjip_, 1992: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006877547<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> In here they are in vol. 3, not 2.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Do you know if these 1992 versions are a true reproduction of the 1946 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> original texts? (Much else is "edited" as needed in these works.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Hazel, can you confirm they are in vol. 2 of the ENGLISH edition, and <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> could you be so kind let me know what page numbers? (I may be able to <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> get them via a copy service from France.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Thank you very much!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Frank<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 03:54:58 +0000, Hazel wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> > You can find these in Kim Il Sung Works Volume 2 (Pyongyang: Foreign <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> > Languages Publishing House, 1992).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> > I believe Library of Congress has copies. If not I can copy the pages <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> > and send.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> > <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> > Sent from my iPhone<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> > <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> _______________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> Frank Hoffmann<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> http://koreanstudies.com<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>