{"id":10839,"date":"2017-08-09T19:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T00:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10839"},"modified":"2017-08-09T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T00:41:11","slug":"lost-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/09\/lost-in-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost In Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unsigned Editorial on <em><strong>38 North<\/strong><\/em>, the message from the North Koreans is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.38north.org\/2017\/08\/editor080917\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re-translated<\/a> so that it makes more sense than that presented by the mass media:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The answer though could be found in the Korean language version, in which the formula was presented as one sentence, not two:<\/p>\n<p><em>\ubbf8\uad6d\uc758 \uc801\ub300\uc2dc \uc815\ucc45\uacfc \ud575\uc704\ud611\uc774 \uadfc\uc6d0\uc801\uc73c\ub85c \uccad\uc0b0\ub418\uc9c0 \uc54a\ub294 \ud55c \uc6b0\ub9ac\ub294 \uadf8 \uc5b4\ub5a4 \uacbd\uc6b0\uc5d0\ub3c4 \ud575\uacfc \ud0c4\ub3c4\ub85c\ucf00\ud2b8\ub97c \ud611\uc0c1\ud0c1\uc5d0 \uc62c\ub824\ub193\uc9c0 \uc54a\uc744 \uac83\uc774\uba70 \uc6b0\ub9ac\uac00 \uc120\ud0dd\ud55c \ud575\ubb34\ub825 \uac15\ud654\uc758 \uae38\uc5d0\uc11c \ub2e8 \ud55c\uce58\ub3c4 \ubb3c\ub7ec\uc11c\uc9c0 \uc54a\uc744 \uac83\uc785\ub2c8\ub2e4.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cUnless the hostile policy and nuclear threat of the U.S. against the D.P.R.K. are fundamentally eliminated, we, under no circumstances, will put the nukes and ballistic rockets on the negotiating table and will not flinch even an inch away from our path of strengthening of the nuclear forces, which is chosen by ourselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, this formulation just repeats earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/chosonsinbo.com\/2017\/07\/kcna_170705\/\">statement by Kim Jong Un<\/a> himself (on July 4) as well as an official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uriminzokkiri.com\/index.php?ptype=igisa1&amp;no=1137667&amp;pagenum=1\">North Korean government statement<\/a> on August 7, which is an authoritative policy pronouncement. But no one in the media mentioned either of these statements in their coverage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The writer accuses the media of sensationalism, and I agree. The necessary intrusion of the private sector into the news sector, not to mention the natural requirement to compete, will lead to muckups like this &#8211; assuming this translation is correct. So the media stirs up its customers &#8211; I wonder how many customers&#8217; health has been damaged by raising their blood pressure?<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something to be said for a dedication to truth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unsigned Editorial on 38 North, the message from the North Koreans is re-translated so that it makes more sense than that presented by the mass media: The answer though could be found in the Korean language version, in which the formula was presented as one sentence, not two: \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/08\/09\/lost-in-translation\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10840,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10839\/revisions\/10840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}