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๐Ÿ“˜ Reading ใ€ŽThe Accusationใ€ - ใ€Ž๊ณ ๋ฐœใ€์„ ์ฝ๊ณ 

๐Ÿ“˜ Reading ใ€ŽThe Accusationใ€ - ใ€Ž๊ณ ๋ฐœใ€์„ ์ฝ๊ณ 

๐Ÿ’น (ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด) ๋ถํ•œ์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ

ใ€Ž๊ณ ๋ฐœใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ 

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๐Ÿ“– ์ฑ… ์ œ๋ชฉ: ใ€Ž๊ณ ๋ฐœใ€
โœ๏ธ ์ž‘๊ฐ€: ๋ฐ˜๋”” (๋ถํ•œ์— ์‚ด๊ณ ์žˆ๋Š” ์ต๋ช…์˜ ์ž‘๊ฐ€)
๐ŸŽฏ ์ถ”์ฒœ ๋Œ€์ƒ: ๋ถํ•œ์˜ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ผ์ƒ์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ
๐ŸŒŸ ํ•œ์ค„ ๊ฐ์ƒ: โ€œ๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“คโ€


๐Ÿ“š ๋…ํ›„๊ฐ

๋ถํ•œ์˜ ๊ณ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ์†Œ์„ค์˜ ์ฃผ์ œ๋กœ ๋จผ์ € ์—ฐ์ƒ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์•„์˜ค์ง€ ํƒ„๊ด‘, ์ •์น˜๋ฒ” ์ˆ˜์šฉ์†Œ, ์ธ๊ถŒ ํƒ„์•• ๋“ฑ์˜ ๊ณตํฌ์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋“ค์ด๋‹ค.
ใ€Ž๊ณ ๋ฐœใ€์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ œ๋ชฉ์„ ์ ‘ํ–ˆ์„ ๋•Œ๋„, ํ•„์—ฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ์ฐธํ˜นํ•œ ํ˜„์‹ค์„ ๊ณ ๋ฐœํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฅดํฌ๋‚˜ ์ˆ˜๊ธฐ ํ˜•์‹์„ ์˜ˆ์ƒํ–ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ด ์ฑ…์€ ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ ๋ป”ํ•œ ์ ‘๊ทผ์„ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค.

ใ€Ž๊ณ ๋ฐœใ€์€ ๋ถํ•œ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์— ๊ฑฐ์ฃผํ•˜๋Š” ์ž‘๊ฐ€ โ€˜๋ฐ˜๋””โ€™๊ฐ€ ์ž์‹ ์ด ์ง์ ‘ ๊ฒช๊ณ  ๋ชฉ๊ฒฉํ•œ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด๋“ค์„ ์†Œ์„ค๋กœ ์—ฎ์€ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด๋‹ค.
๋ฌผ๋ก  ์ •๊ถŒ์˜ ๋ชจ์ˆœ๊ณผ ์–ต์••์„ ๋น„ํŒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธ€์ด์ง€๋งŒ, ์ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์ด ๋‹๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ ์€ ๋ถํ•œ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ฒด์ œ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” โ€˜์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“คโ€™์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์— ๋‘”๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

์˜ˆ์ปจ๋Œ€, ์ „์Ÿ ๊ณต๋กœ๋กœ ๋†’์€ ๊ณ„๊ธ‰์„ ๊ฐ€์ง„ ๊ฐ€์กฑ์˜ ๋”ธ์ด ํ‰์–‘์—์„œ ์‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ฐ€, ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์ž๋…€๊ฐ€ ์šฐ์ƒํ™”๋œ ์ธ๋ฌผ์˜ ์‚ฌ์ง„์„ ๋‘๋ ค์›Œํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ด์œ ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€์กฑ ์ „์ฒด๊ฐ€ ์ซ“๊ฒจ๋‚  ์œ„๊ธฐ์— ์ฒ˜ํ•˜๋Š” ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š” ์ฒด์ œ์˜ ๋น„์ธ๊ฐ„์„ฑ๊ณผ ํ•จ๊ป˜, ๊ทธ ์•ˆ์—์„œ ๋‚˜๋ฆ„๋Œ€๋กœ โ€˜์‚ด์•„๋‚ด๋ ค๋Š”โ€™ ์ธ๊ฐ„๋“ค์˜ ๊ณ ๋‹จํ•œ ์‚ฌ์ •์„ ๋™์‹œ์— ๋ณด์—ฌ์ค€๋‹ค.

์ฑ…์„ ์ฝ์œผ๋ฉด์„œ, ์กฐ์„  ํ›„๊ธฐ์˜ ๋ชฐ๋ฝ์„ ์ž์กฐ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋˜ ๊ตฌํ•œ๋ง ๋ฐ ์ผ์ œ ๊ฐ•์ ๊ธฐ์˜ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์†Œ์„ค๋“ค์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์ด ๋– ์˜ฌ๋ž๋‹ค.
๋น„ํŒ์€ ์žˆ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์—์„œ ์šฐ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜์˜จ ๊นŠ์€ ์Šฌํ””๊ณผ ์ฒด๋…, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ํฌ๋ง์ด ์„ž์ธ ๋ณตํ•ฉ์ ์ธ ๊ฐ์ •์˜ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ๋ฌผ์ด๋‹ค.

์ด ์ฑ…์„ ์ฝ์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๋А๋‚€์ ์€ โ€˜๊ทธ๋Ÿผ์—๋„ ๋ถˆ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ โ€™ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์€ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ„๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ”š ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ

ใ€Ž๊ณ ๋ฐœใ€์€ ๋ถํ•œ์„ โ€˜์ด์ƒํ•œ ๋‚˜๋ผโ€™๋กœ ๋‹จ์ˆœํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ์‹œ์„ ์„ ๋„˜์–ด, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์ž์ฃผ ๊ฐ„๊ณผํ–ˆ๋˜ โ€˜๋ถํ•œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์‚ถโ€™์— ์ง‘์ค‘ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“ ๋‹ค.
๋ฌด์‹œ๋ฌด์‹œํ•œ ํ˜„์‹ค ์†์—์„œ๋„ ๋ฒ„ํ‹ฐ๋ฉฐ ์‚ด์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์˜ ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋Š”, ๊ทธ ์–ด๋–ค ์žฅ์—„ํ•œ ์ €ํ•ญ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋” ๊นŠ์€ ์šธ๋ฆผ์„ ๋‚จ๊ธด๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ’น (English) Life in North Korea

Reading โ€œThe Accusationโ€

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๐Ÿ“– Title: The Accusation
โœ๏ธ Author: Bandi (Anonymous writer residing in North Korea)
๐ŸŽฏ Recommended for: Those curious about the everyday life in North Korea
๐ŸŒŸ One-line impression: โ€œYet, people live on.โ€


๐Ÿ“š Book Review

When thinking of novels that accuse the North Korean regime, one typically imagines horrifying stories of Aoji coal mines, political prison camps, and human rights abuses.
The title The Accusation immediately brings to mind a report-style or testimonial account of such brutal realities.
But this book takes a different path.

The Accusation is a collection of stories written by Bandi, an anonymous author currently living in North Korea, based on events he directly experienced or witnessed.
While it does criticize the contradictions and oppression of the regime, what makes this work stand out is its focus on the lives of the people within the vast North Korean system.

For instance, one story tells of the daughter of a war heroโ€”belonging to a high social classโ€”living in Pyongyang. Her family faces exile from the city simply because her child was afraid of a revered leaderโ€™s portrait.
This tale reveals both the regimeโ€™s inhumanity and the difficult, persistent efforts of ordinary people to endure within it.

While reading, I was reminded of the tone in Korean novels written during the late Joseon dynasty or under Japanese colonial ruleโ€”reflective, critical, and imbued with sorrow and resignation, yet not devoid of hope.

What struck me most was the realization that โ€œdespite everything,โ€ people continue to live on.


๐Ÿ”š Conclusion

The Accusation goes beyond simplistic portrayals of North Korea as a bizarre and foreign land.
It invites us to look closer at the lives of its peopleโ€”lives we often overlook.
The stories of those who survive in the face of terrifying realities leave a deeper impression than any grand act of defiance ever could.

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