我今天讀的英文文章是Escape from camp 14,談的是申東赫逃出北韓集中營,和美國記者合寫一本書:Escape from camp 14,描述集中營殘酷情形及逃生經過,對我來說,文章有點難,我只選讀前二段,我也escape了。

  Although North Korea officially espouses communist ideals of equality ,in reality the country has the world's most rigid caste system.

In 1957 金日成(Kim)created three broad classes divided into 51 subgroups.

In the highest "core class" are the descendents of farmers, government officials and soldiers killed while fighting the Japanese occupation or in the Korean War.

The lowest "hostile class" includes the descendants of property owners, Christians, Japanese collaborators and those whose relatives fled to the South when Kim came to power.

1.communist ideals of equality共產主義完美的平等理念.

2.most rigid caste system.最嚴格的等級制度.

3.soldiers killed while fighting the Japanese occupation死於抗拒日軍佔領

4.descendents or descendants後裔,子孫

5.Japanese collaborators親日份子.

   North Koreans who defect to the South are invariably brought to Seoul for extensive interviews with the National Intelligence Service(NIS), whose experienced interrogators utilize psychology principles to screen out spies and assassins.

After a 25-years-old male defected and reached Seoul in 2006, his atypical demeanor and mannerisms hinted to agents that they had discovered something new. 

something of an emotional roller coaster, Escape From Camp 14 contains the cruelest horrors but is also an uplifting and satisfying account of Shin's escape and gradually improving

 

 

 

 

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