{"id":4171,"date":"2013-12-13T20:53:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T20:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2020-10-11T23:34:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T23:34:14","slug":"young-key-kim-renaud-quoted-by-telegraph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/young-key-kim-renaud-quoted-by-telegraph\/","title":{"rendered":"Young-Key Kim-Renaud quoted by Telegraph, December 13, 2013."},"content":{"rendered":"

Young-Key Kim-Renaud was quoted by Telegraph in an article on North Korea’s language.<\/p>\n

North Korea’s purge language ‘part of the intended terror’ <\/strong><\/p>\n

Language experts say level of vitriol used in North Korean media to describe purging of Jang Song-thaek has been designed to deliberately shock <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kim Jong-Un, left, has had his uncle, Jang Song-Thaek, right, executed\u00a0Photo: AP\/AFP<\/p>\n

By Natasha Clark<\/p>\n

4:13PM GMT 13 Dec 2013<\/p>\n

A Professor of Korean linguistics and culture has described the language used in North Korean<\/strong><\/a> media detailing Jang Song-thaek’s execution as “violent and shocking”, and a “part of the intended terror”.<\/p>\n

Dr Young-Key Kim-Renaud<\/strong> from George Washington University explained the derogatory use of language was uncivilised, even for North Korean standards.<\/p>\n

“We have all kinds of ways to express interpersonal relationships in the Korean language,” she said. “The language they used referring to him, especially the word ‘nom’, a version of ‘he’ basically means ‘he, bastard’.”<\/p>\n

State media company Korea Central News Agency described Jang as a “traitor”, “worse than a dog” and “despicable human scum” with “dirty political ambition”.<\/p>\n

They said the reason he was executed yesterday was for attempting to overthrow the state and seize “supreme power”.<\/p>\n

She also said that some of the severity of the meaning was lost in translation, and the English version was “reader-friendly”.<\/p>\n

“The feel of the text is lost in English,” Dr Kim-Renaud said. “There are critical aspects of language and culture in all things political … the emotion and power present in the Korean text has not been passed on.”<\/p>\n

Another linguists professor, who asked not be named, described the statement as “100 per cent manipulated” and “a message to scare the people of North Korea” and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

“It was given straight from the government, planting a message to the people. It was read like a script with no emotion \u2013 they just picked up the worst and strongest words they could think of to present a scary message to the people.”<\/p>\n

“The word choice is extreme. North Korea is the only place in the world where a dictator can speak so powerfully.”<\/p>\n

“He wants to say to them: ‘We are strong, don’t upset me, or you will end up that way’, both to the people and the outside world. It’s a political game to try and make his reputation.”<\/p>\n

Pictures emerged last week of 67-year-old Jang being dragged out of his seat at a public meeting. He has since been airbrushed out of state images and videos.<\/p>\n

Media reports show people in Pyongyang reflecting the government’s statement which branded Jang Song-thaek a “traitor to the nation”. One said he was “an enemy who got what he deserved.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/northkorea\/10516555\/North-Koreas-purge-language-part-of-the-intended-terror.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Young-Key Kim-Renaud was quoted by Telegraph in an article on North Korea’s language. North Korea’s purge language ‘part of the intended terror’ Language experts say level of vitriol used in North Korean media to describe purging of Jang Song-thaek has been designed to deliberately shock Kim Jong-Un, left, has had his uncle, Jang Song-Thaek, right, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-members-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4447,"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kuwf.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}