영어속독(200단어)--트럼프 미 대통령 한국 국회 연설(7)

An estimated 100,000 North Koreans suffer in gulags, toiling in forced labor, and enduring torture, starvation, rape, and murder on a constant basis.

In one known instance, a 9-year-old boy was imprisoned for 10 years because his grandfather was accused of treason. In another, a student was beaten in school for forgetting a single detail about the life of Kim Jong-un.

 

Soldiers have kidnapped foreigners and forced them to work as language tutors for North Korean spies.

 

In the part of Korea that was a stronghold for Christianity before the war, Christians and other people of faith who are found praying or holding a religious book of any kind are now detained, tortured, and in many cases, even executed.

 

North Korean women are forced to abort babies that are considered ethnically inferior. And if these babies are born, the newborns are murdered.

 

one woman’s baby born to a Chinese father was taken away in a bucket. The guards said it did not “deserve to live because it was impure.”

 

So why would China feel an obligation to help North Korea?

  

The horror of life in North Korea is so complete that citizens pay bribes to government officials to have themselves exported aboard as slaves. They would rather be slaves than live in North Korea. (219 words)

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