Re:북한의 숨은 힘, '아프리카'

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아래 글의 필자 안드레 블첵(Andre Vltchek)은 철학자, 소설가, 영화제작자이며, 탐사 언론인입니다.

이란의 PRESS tv등을 위해 영화를 제작하고 있다고 합니다. 

아래 글은 그가 북한을 어떻게 바라보고 있는지, 그리고 아프리카인들이 북한을 어떻게 생각할지를

보여줍니다.

North Korea Punished for Helping Liberate Africa

북한, 아프리카 해방을 도운 것 때문에 응징을 받다.

By Andre Vltchek

Global Research, March 18, 2016

New Eastern Outlook 18 March 2016

Soon, most likely, there will be new brutal sanctions imposed against North Korea. And there will be massive provocative military exercises held, involving the US and South Korean (ROK). In brief, it is all ‘business as usual’: the West continues to torture DPRK; it is provoking it, isolating, demonizing and dehumanizing it, making sure that it wouldn’t function normally, let alone thrive.

곧 악랄한 새 대북 제재가 부과될 것이 거의 확실하다. 그리고 곧 미국과 남한이 포함된 대규모의 '도발적인' 군사훈련이 열릴 것이다. 간단히 말해서, 그것은 '늘 있는 일'이다: 서방은 북한을 계속해서 고문한다: 서방은 북한을 도발하며, 고립시키고, 악마화하고, 인간성을 말살시키려 한다. 북한이 번영은 커녕, 정상적으로 기능하지 못하도록 하기 위해. 

The submissive Western public keeps obediently swallowing all the shameless lies it is being served by its mainstream media. It is not really surprising; people of Europe and North America already stopped questioning official dogmas long time ago.

순종적인 서구 대중은 주류 미디어가 공급하는 그 모든 파렴치한 거짓말들을 고분고분 사실로 받아들인다. 놀랄 일도 아니다. 유럽과 북미 사람들은 이미 공식적인 도그마들에 대해 의문을 제기하는 것을 오래 전에 멈추었다.

North Korea (DPRK) is depicted as some insane, starving, subnormal and underdeveloped hermit state, whose leaders are constantly boozing and whoring, murdering each other, and building some primitive but lethal nukes, in order to destroy the world.

북한은 미치고, 굶주리며, 저능하고 저개발된 은둔의 나라로, 그 지도자들은 항상 술을 진탕마시며,

서로를 죽이고, 세계를 파괴하기 위해 원시적이지만 치명적인 핵무기를 개발하고 있다고 그려진다.

Those of us who are familiar with DPRK know that all this is one bundle of fat, shameless lies. Pyongyang is an elegant, well functioning city with great public housing, excellent public transportation, public places and recreational facilities, theatres, sport facilities and green areas. And despite those monstrous sanctions, the countryside is much more prosperous than what one sees in the desperate Western ‘client’ states like Indonesia and Philippines.

북한을 잘 아는 우리들은 이 모든 것이 파렴치한 거짓말들이라는 것을 안다....

At least there is something; there have at least been a few decent reports that have been written about those grotesque lies and the Western propaganda.

그 터무니없는 거짓말들과 서구의 선전에 대해 쓴 많은 보도가 있어왔다.

But the essential question remains: ‘Why is the West so obsessed with demonizing North Korea?’

하지만 본질적인 의문은 남는다: " 왜 서구는 북한을 악마화하는데 그렇게 집착하는가?"하는 것이다.

And the answer is simple: Like Cuba, North Korea dared to step on the toes of Western colonialism and imperialism. Sacrificing its sons and daughters, it helped to liberate many African countries, and it provided assistance to the most progressive forces on the most plundered and devastated continent.

그리고 그 대답은 간단하다: 쿠바처럼, 북한이 대담하게 서구 식민주의와 제국주의를 화나게 했기 때문이다. 자신의 아들과 딸들을 희생해가면서, 북한은 많은 아프리카 국가들의 해방을 도왔으며, 가장 약탈을 당하고 파괴된 대륙 아프리카의 가장 진보적인 군대에 대한 지원을 제공했다.

This is one thing that the West never forgives. It lives off the unbridled plunder of all continents; it essentially thrives by looting its colonies. Those countries that assisted the liberation struggles, those nations that fought for freedom of the colonized world – Soviet Union/Russia, China, Cuba and the DPRK – were designated by Western ideologues as the most ‘dangerous’ and ‘evil’ places on Earth.

이것은 서구가 결코 용서하지 않는 것이다....

In Europe and North America, conditioned masses (they have been actually profiting from the colonialism and neo-colonialism for decades and centuries), are stubbornly refusing to comprehend this main reason why the Empire has made the people of North Korea suffer so terribly for years and decades.

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My comrade, Mwandawiro Mghanga, Chairperson of SDP and also a Member of the Executive Committee of Africa Left Networking Forum (ALNEF) based in Dakar Senegal, wrote for this essay:

 “The Social Democratic Party of Kenya (SDP) condemns the unjustified sanctions against North Korea (DPRK) instigated by imperialism led by the United States of America. We are aware that imperialism has never stopped its cold and hot war against DPRK that through one of the greatest patriotic, heroic and revolutionary anti-colonial and anti-imperialist national liberation armed struggles succeeded in winning true independence in the northern half of Korea. When it invaded North Korea, US imperialism like Japanese colonialism earlier, suffered one of the most humiliating military defeats it will never forget in its reactionary history. We also know that the US and the West hates DPRK with venom for refusing to be a puppet of imperialism like South Korea. A dirty false propaganda war is waged against DPRK for refusing the capitalist and neo-colonial path of slavery, under-development and exploitation of person by person and instead choosing the path of development for freedom and humanity, socialism.

 We in Africa will not accept to be cheated by imperialists who have always been part and parcel of our problems. Imperialism is not and has never been a friend of Africa but its enemy. African patriots and revolutionaries will never allow imperialism to tell us who our friends are. For we know whom our friends are! And North Korea has always been Africa’s true friend. When the whole of the African continent was under Western colonialism, Korea under the revolutionary leadership of comrade Kim Il Sung was fighting Japanese colonialism and showing solidarity with Africa at the same time. After DPRK, in the name of socialist internationalism increased its moral, military and other material support to African countries in their struggle for liberation from colonialism, imperialism and apartheid. Immediately after independence from colonialism in the 1960s, thousands of Africans, including Kenyans, received free higher, technical and specialised education in the DPRK. DPRK not only offered arms, finance and other material solidarity to Namibia, South Africa, Angola and Mozambique in the war against apartheid and imperialism, but it also actually sent internationalist revolutionaries to Africa to fight side by side with Africans for Africa. DPRK fought with Egypt and Africa during the 1967 war against the brutal Zionist regime of Israel supported by the Western countries. Today DPRK is together with African countries in the demand for a new just international order. In this DPRK is blamed by imperialism and imperialist puppet regimes for being in the forefront and showing by its own example that a new just international order cannot be but anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, it must be socialist.”

North Korean internationalism is legendary, just as Cuban internationalism is. And this is the least that we can do right now, when the country is facing new tremendous and brutal challenges – to recall how much it gave to the world; how much it had already sacrificed for the sake of humanity!

쿠바의 국제주의가 그러한 것처럼, 북한의 국제주의는 전설적이다. 그리고 이는( 이 글을 쓰는 것)은, 북한이 엄청나고 악랄한 새로운 도전(국제 제재)에 직면하고 있는 지금 우리가 할 수 있는 최소한이다.--그 나라가 얼마나 많은 것을 세계에 주었는지: 그 나라가 인류를 위해 얼마나 많은 희생을 했는지를 상기하면!

I spoke to people in Windhoek, who with tears in their eyes recalled North Korea’s struggle against (South African) apartheid-supported regimes in both Namibia and Angola. Naturally, South African apartheid used to enjoy the full support of the West. To repay that favor, South African troops joined the fight against North Korea and China during the Korean War.

나는, 남아프리카의 인종차별정책을 지지하는 나미비아와 앙골라 정권에 대항하여 싸운 북한의 투쟁을 눈물지으며 회상하던 윈드획(Windhoek) 사람들과 이야기한 적이 있다....

As mentioned by Mwandawiro Mghanga, North Korea fought against Israel, its pilots flew Egyptian fighter planes in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. DPRK took part in the liberation struggle in Angola and it fought in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Lesotho, and Namibia and in the Seychelles. It provided assistance to the African National Congress and its epic struggle to liberate South Africa from apartheid. In the past, it had aided the then progressive African nations, including Guinea, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Mali and Tanzania.

Arthur Tewungwa, Ugandan opposition politician from the Uganda People’s Congress Party (UPC) compares the involvement of the DPRK and the West in his country and the African Great Lakes region:

 “Uganda benefited from its relationship with North Korea in the 1980s when it helped the government to fight against the Museveni rebels who were supported by the US and UK. Morally, compared to the DPRK, the latter two have no leg to stand on with all the bloodshed they triggered in the Great Lakes Region.”

우간다의 야당 정치인인 우간다 인민의회당(UPC) 아서 트웡가는 우간다와 아프리카 대 호수 지역(the African Great Lakes region)에 개입한 북한과 서구를 비교한다.

"우간다는 1980년대 북한과의 관계로부터 혜택을 입었다. 북한은 우간다정부가, 미국과 영국의 지원을 받는 무세베니 반군에 대항하여 싸우는 것을 도왔다. 도덕적으로, 북한에 비해 미국과 영국은 대 호수 지역(the Great Lakes Region)에서 그들이 촉발한 그 모든 유혈사태로 변명의 여지가 없다" 

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Has North Korea been fully abandoned, left to its fate? Has it been ‘betrayed’?

Christopher Black, a prominent international lawyer based in Toronto, Canada:

 “…The fact that the US, as part of the SC(안보리) is imposing sanctions on a country it is threatening is hypocritical and unjust. That the Russians and Chinese have joined the US in this, instead of calling for sanctions against the US for its threats against the DPRK and its new military exercises, which are a clear and present danger to the DPRK, is shameful. If the Russians and Chinese are sincere why don’t they insist that the US draw down its forces there so the DPRK feels less threatened and take steps to guarantee the security of the DPRK?  They do not explain their actions but their actions make them collaborators with the USA against the DPRK.”

The situation is bleak, but most likely not fatal; not fatal yet.

Jeff J Brown, a leading China expert based in Beijing, does not hide his optimism when it comes to the Sino-Russian relationship with the DPRK:

“There is not a lot that North Korea does in the international arena, that Baba Beijing does not have its hand in. They are two fraternal communist countries and 65 years ago, the Chinese spilled a lot of blood and treasure to save North Korea from the West. Mao Zedong’s son died on the Korean War battlefield, fighting against Yankee imperialism. There are two million ethnic Koreans living along the border with North Korea and another half a million Northerners living and working in China. Koreans are a recognized minority in China. No other country in the world understands North Korea like China does. This closeness is emblematic of their common border, the Yalu River, which is so shallow, you can wade across it. They also share boundaries with another key ally, Russia. China is North Korea’s very, very big brother and protector. Frankly, vis-à-vis the upcoming UNSC sanctions against North Korea, I think the West is getting played like a drum, and it is the drum that gets the crap pounded out of it.”

Of course both China and Russia have their long land borders with North Korea -roads and railroads inter-connecting all three countries. According to my sources in Moscow and Beijing, it is highly unlikely that the two closest allies of the DPRK would ever go along with the new sanctions, whether they are officially ‘supporting them’, or not.

But the logic used by Christopher Black is absolutely correct: it is the West that should be suffering from the toughest sanctions imaginable, not DPRK.

상상할 수 있는 가장 강력한 제재로 고통을 받고 있어야하는 것은 서구이다. 북한이 아니라.

It is the West, not North Korea, which has murdered one billion human beings, throughout history. It is the West that colonized, plundered, raped and enslaved people in all corners of the planet. What moral mandate does it have to propose and impose sanctions against anyone?

역사를 통해, 10억의 인류를 살해한 것은 북한이 아니라 서구(西球)이다. 이 행성의 방방곡곡에서 사람들을 식민지화하고, 약탈 강간하고 노예로 삼은 것은 서구이다. 다른 누구에게 제재를 가할 것을 제안하고 부과할 어떤 도덕적 권한을 서구가 가지고 있는가?

We are living in a twisted, truly perverse world, where mass murderers act as judges, and actually get away with it.

우리는 뒤틀리고 왜곡된 세계에서 살고 있다. 이곳에서 대량 살육자들은 판관처럼 행동하고,그리고 실제로 아무 처벌받지 않고 자기 하고 싶은 대로 다한다.

North Korea spilled blood for the liberation of Africa. It showed true solidarity with robbed, tortured people, with those whom Franz Fanon used to call the “Wretched of the Earth”. That is why, according to perverse logic (which has roots in the Western religious and cultural fundamentalism), it has to be punished, humiliated, and even possibly wiped off the face of the earth.

북한은 아프리카 해방을 위해 피를 흘렸다. 북한은 강도를 당하고, 고문당한 사람들과 진정한 연대를 보여주었다. 이것이, 서구의 종교적 문화적 근본주의에 뿌리를 둔 왜곡된 논리에 따르면 북한이 응징받고 굴욕을 당하고, 지구상에서 지워지기까지 해야할 이유이다.

Not because it did something objectively ‘bad’, but because the objectivity lost its meaning. Terms ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are now determined by only one criterion: ‘good’ is all that serves the interests of the Western Empire, ‘bad’ is what challenges its global dictatorship.

If you save the village that had been designated by the Empire as a place to be raped and pillaged, you will be punished in the most sadistic and brutal manner. North Korea did exactly that. Except that it did not save just one village, but it helped to liberate an entire continent!

만약 당신이 제국(the Empire-서구 제국주의)에 의해 강간과 약탈의 장소로 지정되었던 마을을 구한다면, 가장 가학적이고 잔인한 방법으로 응징을 받을 것이다. 북한은 정확히 그렇게 했다. 단지 한 마을을 구원한 것이 아니라, 북한은 대륙 전체(아프리카 대륙)의 해방을 도왔다.

Andre Vltchek is a philosopher, novelist, filmmaker and investigative journalist. He covered wars and conflicts in dozens of countries. His latest books are: “Exposing Lies Of The Empire” and  “Fighting Against Western Imperialism”.  Discussion with Noam Chomsky: On Western Terrorism. Point of No Return is his critically acclaimed political novel. Oceania – a book on Western imperialism in the South Pacific. His provocative book about Indonesia: “Indonesia – The Archipelago of Fear”. Andre is making films for teleSUR and Press TV. After living for many years in Latin America and Oceania, Vltchek presently resides and works in East Asia and the Middle East. He can be reached through his website or his Twitter.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/north-korea-punished-for-helping-liberate-africa/5515049

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회원님들중 이걸 해석하여 판단할 분이 몇분
이나 계시나...시험 하는건가요

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그럴리가요. 오전에 올리고 일을 해야해서요...

[rhdygkstoqur70]

번역좀 부탁드립니다^^

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일일이 번역해드리기는 그렇고.....

그 내용은 대충.....아래와 같습니다.

즉, 오랫동안 유럽 및 미국 식민지 국가들이었던 아프리카 국가들이
식민지배 국가들로부터의 영향력에서 벗어나 자주독립(=해방) 되도록
북한이 도와주었는데....

그런 북한을 서양은 악마화시키고 있다는 겁니다.

아프리카 국가들 중에는 미국의 따까리 국가가 되기로 선택한 국가들도 있지만....
그러나 진정으로 자주독립국가가 되고자 [사회주의]를 선택한 국가
즉, 반미국가가 된 국가들도 많죠.

가장 대표적인 예가 나미비아, 우간다 등입니다.

그런 나라를 서양언론들은 "독재자"가 통치하는 나라
부패한 나라라고 진실을 왜곡하여 악마화시키고 있죠.

[정론직필]

미국 따까리 국가, 유럽 식민지 국가가 된다는 것은
엄청난 자원 착취를 당하고, 국부를 강탈당해
그 나라 경제와 국민들의 생활이 처참하게 피폐해진다는 의미죠.

그래서 생각있는 아프리카 지도자들은 모두
미국 및 유럽의 영향력에서 벗어나고자
사회주의를 선택하죠.

[정겨운사람]

네 직필님
그리고 해석할 시간이 없으신 분은 구글번역을 통해 핵심윤각을 보시면 되지요.

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고맙습니다.
간략한 해설이지만 전체문장을 파악할수
있겠습니다

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좋은 자료입니다.
step on a person's[the wrong] toes (《구어》tread on a person’s[the wrong] toes)
남을 화나게 하다, 남의 감정을 해치다; 남의 영역[권리]을 침범하다
He stepped on my toes very often. 그는 나를 매우 자주 화나게 했다. 출처:YBM 올인올 Idiom 사전

tread[step, trample] on a person's corns[toes] (구어) 남의 감정을 상하게 하다
He treaded on his wife's corns. 그는 그의 아내의 감정을 상하게 했다. 출처:YBM 올인올 Idiom 사전

tread[step] on a person's toes
1. …의 발끝을 밟다 2. …의 감정을 해치다 출처:Dong-a's Prime English-Korean Dictionary

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도움말 감사합니다.