【3月19日】看軍聞學英語

■林國賓

原文：

Schoolchildren are being executed by North Korea for watching K-pop dramas and TV shows, including Netflix’s Squid Game, according to harrowing new testimony shared with Amnesty International.

The group included 25 individual in-depth interviews with North Koreans, including 11 who fled the country between 2009 and 2020. Most of the interviewees were aged between 15 and 25 at the time of fleeing.

Watching South Korean dramas such as Crash Landing on You, Descendants of the Sun and Squid Game, or listening to K-pop, led to severe and humiliating punishments, including death in the most extreme instances, according to the escapees.

Those without money or connections face the harshest consequences in the communist state, with wealthy families able to pay off officials in exchange for clemency, according to the report.

"When we were 16, 17, in middle school, they took us to executions and showed us everything," said Kim Eunju, 40. "People were executed for watching or distributing South Korean media. It's ideological education: if you watch, this happens to you too."

中譯：

根據國際特赦組織分享的最新駭人證詞，北韓正因學童觀看包括網飛的《魷魚遊戲》韓劇與電視節目，而將他們處以死刑。

該組織進行了25場深入的個別訪談，受訪者為北韓人，其中11人於2009至2020年間逃離北韓。多數受訪者在逃離時年齡介於15至25歲。

脫北者指出，觀看例如《愛的迫降》、《太陽的後裔》、《魷魚遊戲》等南韓電視劇，或收聽韓國流行音樂，會遭到嚴厲且具羞辱性的懲罰，最極端的情況下甚至會被處死。

報告指出，在這個共產國家，沒有金錢或人脈的人往往面臨最嚴酷的後果；相對地，富裕家庭則能透過賄賂官員換取寬恕。

40歲的金恩珠表示：「我們16、17歲還在讀中學時，他們會把我們帶去觀看行刑的過程。有人因為觀看或散布南韓媒體而被處決。這是一種意識形態教育：如果你看了，下場也會是這樣。」

關鍵軍語

※execute：處決

※escapee：逃脫者