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うんざりさせられること
毎日のように繰り返される北朝鮮をめぐる報道。
これにそろそろ飽きてきたのは、
問題解決への糸口すらまだ見えないためだろうか。
Tired of North Korea
I'm really tired of this whole North Korea thing. For the past six months, the news has been saturated with reports about Kim Jong Il's latest antics or the return of five Japanese abductees to their homeland. The relentless stream of bad news and overkill reporting is exhausting.
I'm tired of living next to a country that has the technology and desire to build a nuclear weapon and the missile to deliver it to where I live, but that does not have the common-sense restraint that would prevent its use.
I'm tired of hearing about a country where the leader spends over a million dollars a year on imported cognac while his people attempt to survive by eating boiled grass (and many of them fail).
I'm tired of looking at the leader of a country wearing an outfit that looks like a gas station attendant's as part of some ploy to make him seem more down-to-earth to his citizen-slaves.
I'm tired of being shown video clips of North Korean children turned into pathetic sideshow acts, singing and dancing with adult skill and horrifying, plastic smiles, as if it were some great accomplishment.
I'm tired of North Korean ships entering Japanese waters to either spy on us, unload drugs into Japan or crash into seawalls because they are so inept and spill oil, then refusing to take any responsibility.
I'm tired of the Japanese media endlessly reporting the most mundane facts about the lives of the five former abductees as they struggle to adjust. Normality can begin only when the cameras go away.
I'm tired of South Koreans with short memories who assault and harass U.S. servicemen in their country as if they were criminal invaders. Without U.S. intervention in 1950, there would not even be a South Korea today. Their attitude is an insult to the more than 50,000 Americans who died to give them their freedom.
I'm tired of the U.S. president being so obsessed with "the guy who tried to kill my dad" that he cannot focus clearly enough on the guy who is a much greater threat to world security.
I'm tired of a Japanese government that refuses to cut off all money transfers and other connections with North Korea until they abandon their nuclear program and agree to return the families of the former abductees to Japan.
I'm tired of South Korea and other governments insisting on dialogue and "engagement" with the North, despite decades of lies, deceit and broken promises. There is no "sunshine" here.
In July 2001, Newsweek magazine published a report on the "World's Worst Countries." The magazine ranked North Korea as the worst country in the world. They described it as a giant concentration camp where the entire population is forced to worship their leader. Unfortunately, it is all too accurate.
I think it's clear that the goal before the world community should not be figuring out how to deal with North Korea, but how to get rid of North Korea. The people on both ends of the Korean peninsula deserve no less.
Shukan ST: Feb. 7, 2003
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- this whole North Korea thing
- 北朝鮮をめぐる一連の騒動
- has been saturated with 〜
- 〜が過剰供給されている
- Kim Jong Il
- 金正日
- antics
- おかしな行動
- Japanese abductees
- 日本人拉致被害者
- relentless
- 容赦のない
- overkill reporting
- 過剰な報道
- common-sense restraint
- 常識に照らして自制すること
- imported cognac
- 輸入品のコニャック
- his people
- 国民
- fail
- 命を落とす
- outfit
- 服装
- ploy
- 策略
- down-to-earth
- 現実的な
- citizen-slaves
- 奴隷のような市民
- pathetic
- 哀れな
- sideshow acts
- 余興
- with adult skill
- 大人顔負けの芸で
- horrifying
- ぞっとさせる
- plastic
- 非人間的な
- as if it were 〜
- まるで〜のように
- Japanese waters
- 日本の領海水域
- spy on 〜
- 〜をひそかに見張る
- unload drugs
- 麻薬を密輸する
- seawalls
- 防波堤
- inept
- 能力を欠く
- spill oil
- 石油を流出させる
- mundane
- 平凡な
- struggle to adjust
- 順応しようと努力する
- Normality
- 正常な状態
- with short memories
- 忘れっぽい
- assault
- 攻撃する
- harass
- 嫌がらせをする
- servicemen
- 軍人
- criminal invaders
- 不法侵略者
- intervention
- 介入
- insult
- 侮辱
- being so obsessed with 〜
- 〜にとりつかれている
- guy
- 奴
- threat
- 脅威
- money transfers
- 送金
- despite 〜
- 〜にもかかわらず
- deceit
- ごまかし
- "sunshine"
- 北朝鮮との和解・協力を目指す金大統領の「太陽政策」をほのめかしている
- concentration camp
- 強制収容所
- it is all too accurate
- すべてが的を射ている
- be figuring out
- 見つけ出す
- get rid of 〜
- 〜をなくす
- The people on both ends of the Korean peninsula deserve no less
- 南北朝鮮の人たちのためには、そうしなくてはならない