2006年VOA标准英语-Alleged South Korean Abductee Backs North Korea
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（六月）
By Kurt Achin
Seoul
29 June 2006
North Korean Kim Young Nam, right, speaks at press conference as Kim's South Korean sister Kim Young-ja, left, sits during the separated Family Reunion Meeting at Kumgangsan Hotel in Diamond Mountain, North Korea, June 29, 2006
A man who disappeared 28 years ago from a South Korean beach, and recently reappeared in North Korea, denies accusations 1 that he was kidnapped by agents of Pyongyang. In a highly unusual news conference held inside North Korea, Kim Young-nam said he was rescued at sea by a North Korean boat, and stayed in the North voluntarily.
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Kim Young-nam says South Korean authorities have it wrong: he was not abducted 2 at the age of 16 to North Korea.
Rather, Kim says, he was rescued from drowning at sea 28 years ago by a North Korean ship. He says the kindness the North Korean sailors showed him completely changed his impression of the communist country.
He made his comments in an unprecedented 3 news conference Thursday at the North Korean resort where the day before, he was reunited with his mother for the first time since his disappearance 4.
During the news conference, held under strict supervision 5 by North Korean authorities, Kim also said his Japanese wife, Megumi Yokota, had committed suicide in 1994. He said Yokota, who is among 13 Japanese the North Koreans admit to having abducted during the Cold War, was suffering from mental illness.
Kim disappeared from a beach on the South Korean island of Seonyu, approximately 350 kilometers south of the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas.
For decades, South Korean authorities and Kim's family insisted he was one of about 500 South Korean civilians 6 kidnapped by North Korean agents since the end of the Korean War in 1953.
The North Koreans say any South Koreans in the country are there of their own free will. Kim said Wednesday he has stayed in North Korea voluntarily.
He says because his family in the South was in such a difficult economic situation, he resolved to remain in the North until finishing university. Time went by, he says, and he simply began to build a life in the North.
Kim's statements precisely 7 echo North Korea's official explanations of his disappearance and Yokota's fate - a fact being received with virtually no surprise here in South Korea. No dissent 8 from government opinion or statements is tolerated in the rigidly 9 controlled North, and it is assumed that Kim and his family could face severe punishment if he tried to say otherwise.
While officials in Seoul have not formally responded to Kim's statements, abductee advocacy groups are dismissing them out of hand. In Tokyo, Megumi Yokota's father, Shigeru Yokota, told reporters he did not believe Kim's statements.
Kim's case first drew international attention in April, when Japanese investigators said DNA evidence showed that he and Yokota had had a child together
- There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
- He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。
- Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
- The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。
- The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
- A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。
- He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
- Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
- The work was done under my supervision.这项工作是在我的监督之下完成的。
- The old man's will was executed under the personal supervision of the lawyer.老人的遗嘱是在律师的亲自监督下执行的。
- the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。
- It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
- The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。
- It is too late now to make any dissent.现在提出异议太晚了。
- He felt her shoulders gave a wriggle of dissent.他感到她的肩膀因为不同意而动了一下。