細數朝鮮這個神祕國家的十大出口物品(下)
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3.海外勞工If North Korea has anything in abundance, it's people. And how can this commodity be monetized? By sending them overseas to work and send their earnings back to North Korea, holding their families hostage to ensure compliance.
如果說朝鮮還有什麼是充足的，那就是人口了。那怎麼利用勞工來獲利？朝鮮把這些勞工輸送到海外去打工賺錢，再把他們的收入吸收回國內，同時挾持他們的家人作人質來迫使勞工們服從。Over 50,000 North Korean laborers toil overseas for the regime, sending back remittances totaling nearly $2 billion a year.
超過5萬名朝鮮勞工爲國家辛苦跋涉至海外工作，他們每年寄回的匯款總額約達20億美元。
The laborers work in terrible conditions for long hours and are lucky to see even 10 percent of their paycheck.
這些勞工們在惡劣的條件下長時間工作，運氣好時自己也能僅能拿到10%的收入。North Korean laborers can be found in more than 40 different countries in the Middle East, Africa, and even Europe—but mostly in China and Russia, with 20,000 and 19,000 workers, respectively.
朝鮮勞工散落在中東、美洲以及歐洲等地的40多個國家，但主要集中在中俄兩國，其中，中國約有朝鮮勞工2萬人次，俄羅斯約有1.9萬人次。Most are employed in industries requiring hard physical labor, like construction. And with the United Nations cracking down on other North Korean cash flows, the country has been increasing the number of laborers sent overseas to make up for the shortfall in cash it earns from other activities.
他們大多從事建築業等重體力勞動行業。並且隨着聯合國打擊朝鮮其他違法交易力度的加大，朝鮮在這些活動中所得收益減少，只能輸出越來越多的海外勞工來彌補這一現金缺口。amphetamines
2.冰毒North Korea has been involved in the drug trade since the 1970s, when it defaulted on its international debts and ordered its embassies to self-fund.
上世紀70年代，朝鮮嚴重拖欠國際債務並令其大使館自籌經費，那時起朝鮮就一直參與毒品貿易。One of the ways the embassies initially accomplished this was to traffic drugs using diplomatic immunity.
朝鮮大使館最初籌資的方式之一就是利用其外交豁免權販運毒品。
Later, North Korea started manufacturing illicit drugs of its own—primarily methamphetamine—and exporting some of them through its embassies.
而後朝鮮乾脆在其國內製造以冰毒爲主的毒品，並通過其大使館出口到各國。North Korean methamphetamine gained notoriety primarily for its high purity (99 percent), which is not surprising considering the drugs were manufactured in state-owned factories under the supervision of professional chemists.
朝鮮製造的冰毒因純度高（99%）而聲名遠揚，不過想想這些冰毒是在專業藥劑師監管下由國有工廠製造的，一切便也不足爲奇了。However, since the mid-2000s, illicit drug activity appears to have been "privatized,"with the state apparently taking a smaller role in manufacturing, transportation, and distribution of methamphetamine.
但到了2005年左右，隨着朝鮮在製造、運輸、分銷冰毒中所起的作用越來越小，毒品交易顯現出"私有化”趨勢。The purity has decreased dramatically, indicating that production may no longer be taking place in state-owned factories. However, methamphetamine is still plentiful in North Korea itself, where it is reported that meth is offered "as casually as tea."
冰毒純度明顯下降，這表明朝鮮的國有工廠或許已經不再生產毒品，但據悉其國內，冰毒依然氾濫，人們購買冰毒就像購買茶葉一樣隨意。In a country where food is scarce and famine stalks the land, the appetite-suppressing properties of methamphetamines are very useful.
在這樣一個食物緊缺、饑饉遍地的國家，冰毒能抑制食慾的特性還是大有用武之地的。ear Reactors
1.核反應堆
Probably the most audacious North Korean export has been an attempt to build a fully functioning nuclear reactor for Syria at Al-Kibar, which Israel bombed in 2007. North Korea patterned the reactor on its own gas-graphite one.
或許在朝鮮的所有出口貿易中，最拉風的就是試圖爲敘利亞在艾其巴建立一個全功能的核反應堆。朝鮮效仿氣冷石墨反應堆來建造這一核設施，As this type of reactor is not very complex, North Korea could have and probably did supply most of the parts itself.
由於這種反應堆並不算複雜，朝鮮可以獨立完成絕大部分的工程。The North Koreans apparently modeled the building almost exactly on the Yongbyon reactor, later constructing outer walls to hide the shape of the facility, turning it into a featureless box.
這一核設備幾乎完全參照寧邊反應堆來建造，核心部分建好以後再建造厚厚的外牆來隱匿身形，最後整個反應堆就變成了平淡無奇巨無霸盒子。If the reactor had not been bombed, it could have produced enough plutonium for one or two weapons per year once it was operational.
如果艾其巴核設施沒有被炸燬，它一旦開始運作，每年產出的鈈足以製造一兩枚核武器。Just three days before the reactor was bombed, a North Korean ship was caught delivering nuclear fuel rods, most likely destined for the reactor. And the whole thing ended up netting up to $2 billion for North Korea, with the money coming from Iran.
在這核設施被炸燬的三天前，一艘運輸核燃料棒的朝鮮船舶被攔截，這些核燃料棒很可能就是準備用於這一核反應堆。這整起事件疑雲重重，最後卻以朝鮮賺了伊朗20億美元告終。
