【中文标题】朝鲜外交官：朝鲜球迷不是中国人
【原文标题】Diplomats: North Korean Soccer Fans Are Genuine
【登载媒体】AOL新闻
【原文作者】Lauren Frayer
【原文链接】http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/diplomat-says-north-korean-world-cup-soccer-fans-are-genuine-not-actors/19518824
一位朝鲜外交官在接受AOL新闻采访时说，尽管有一些流言称世界杯赛场上的朝鲜球迷其实都是中国的冒名顶替者，但他的同胞的确也在南非支持自己的球队。
在一次鲜有的媒体采访中，朝鲜驻南非的外交官员Yop Pak Sung说平壤在最后一刻决定派出200人的拉拉队。
Sung在电话中说：“他们都是来自朝鲜的支持者。大约200人周一从平壤出发，他们住在南非的宾馆中。他们都是来自我们国家，不是中国人。也许一些中国人也来到南非，但是你在电视中看到的那些都是来自我们国家的朝鲜人。”
星期二，南非，朝鲜足球队的支持者在与巴西对的世界杯比赛中加油。
他的这番话无法得到其它事实的佐证。
两天前，1000名中国的影视演员和舞蹈演员手持所有朝鲜比赛的门票到达南非。
朝鲜体育部把国际足联分给平壤的1400张门票授权给一家中国公关公司分配。中国体育运动管理处的王琦在星期一接受路透社采访时说：“中国人会支持朝鲜，这会让他们意想不到，我们来这里是想见证或许会发生的一些奇迹。”
大约40名朝鲜球迷在约翰内斯堡艾利斯公园球场的看台上分5排坐在一起，他们穿着明显的朝鲜运动衫，戴着帽子和围巾，挥舞着崭新的朝鲜小国旗。
朝鲜队的明星前锋郑大世在奏国歌时看到这些球迷而泪流满面——他似乎不相信这些人会出现在这里。
一些球迷在进入体育场时接受了记者的采访，他们说自己是朝鲜人，但是拒绝透露此次出行的费用来源。
40岁的Kim Yong Chul说：“我认为朝鲜队会取得很好的成绩，足以让我们在这里呆一个月。”他的这番话被若干新闻机构所引用。令一个球迷Kim Yong Chon说：“我们也会为韩国加油，南北韩是一个国家，我们的心也和他们在一起。”
一家中国公关负责分配大量的朝鲜队比赛门票，它决定将其分给一些演员和表演届人士。这一事实让外界猜测那些用朝鲜运动服装扮起来的人其实是中国的冒牌货。
博客、Facebook和推特中满是这些流言。
James Baraloto在Facebook中的一则足球新闻下面写道：“朝鲜付钱给中国的演员，让他们为自己的队伍加油。如果这是真的，那太令人遗憾了。”
Li Heng Chan也在下面写道：“他们的日子一定不好过，因为看台上99％都是巴西球迷。如果他们真的付钱给那些中国的朝鲜球迷，那太不像话了。”
在周二的比赛中，这群朝鲜支持者被淹没在54000名狂热巴西球迷的海洋中。这支除东道主外排名最低的队伍（105名）最终以1－2负于排名第一的五冠王巴西队，但他们在半场多的比赛中没有让对手得分。
没有政府的批准，朝鲜人不可以离开他们封闭、神秘的共产主义国家。在访问南非期间，有政府的监控人员与足球队随行，也许是为了限制他们接触西方世界，或者阻止他们叛变。
当被问到为何朝鲜队员没有和其它队伍同时出现在国际足联的新闻发布会中时，Sung说：“他们不可以被外界打扰，因为他们只想着比赛。他们也愿意和记者见面，但是实在没有时间。”
平壤因其保守和对公民的控制而臭名昭著，朝鲜队出征世界杯又恰好处于朝鲜半岛局势高度紧张的特殊时期。朝鲜被认为与韩国战舰天安号三月份被击沉的事件有牵连，而平壤一直矢口否认。但直至今日，朝鲜的主流报纸的社论中仍在说，这一事件让局势变得如此紧张，以至于“即使一件偶然发生的小事也会引发全面战争”。
另一位驻南非的朝鲜外交官对在接受AOL新闻采访时说，对于他的国家在世界杯上的亮相引起了媒体的“虚构和猜测”，他感到愤怒。他拒绝透露自己的姓名，因为他不可以接受记者的采访。
他说：“我们为什么要找其它国家的人来取代朝鲜人？这样做的目的是什么？我实在无法理解。”他又神秘地说：“事实会随着时间的流逝浮现出来，我们不需要费力去解释。这个世界上有太多的谎言，就像天安号战舰一样。”
他的同事Sung对于世界杯公众对朝鲜的态度持更加乐观的想法，他说：“我们使馆所有的工作人员都到体育馆中观看比赛，朝鲜队进球时我们听到呜呜祖拉号角的声音，我们感到很自豪。”
当被问到南非传统的乐器是否会在朝鲜流行起来，Sung回答：“为什么不呢？”
原文：
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (June 16) -- A North Korean diplomat told AOL News that despite rumors about North Korean soccer fans at the World Cup actually being Chinese ringers, his compatriots are indeed in South Africa to support the team.
In a rare media interview, North Korea's diplomatic representative in South Africa, Yop Pak Sung, said that Pyongyang decided at the last minute to send about 200 citizens.
"They are all supporters from North Korea. About 200 people came from Pyongyang on Monday and are staying at guest houses. They're from our country; they're not Chinese," Sung said by telephone. "Maybe some Chinese came as well, but those you saw on TV yesterday are Koreans from our country."
Supporters of the North Korea team cheer during the World Cup match with Brazil in Johannesburg, South Africa, Tuesday
His statement could not be independently verified.
Two days ago, 1,000 Chinese actors and dancers landed here in South Africa holding tickets to all the North Korean soccer games.
North Korea's sports ministry had authorized a Chinese PR company to distribute the 1,400 tickets FIFA had allocated to Pyongyang. "The Chinese will support North Korea," China Sports Event Management Group's Wang Qi told Reuters on Monday. "They may surprise, and we come here with a view that something magical might happen."
About 40 North Korean fans could be seen in five rows of Johannesburg's Ellis Park Stadium, dressed in identical North Korea jerseys, hats and scarves and waving freshly unfurled mini North Korean flags.
North Korea's star striker, Jong Tae Se, wept as he looked out at them during the national anthem -- almost as if their presence were a surprise.
Some of the fans spoke to reporters on their way into the stadium, identifying themselves as North Koreans but refusing to elaborate or say who paid for their journey.
"I think [the North Korean players] will do well enough for us to stay for the whole month," Kim Yong Chul, 40, said in comments carried by several news agencies. "We also cheer for South Korea," another fan, Kim Yong Chon, was quoted as saying. "Korea is one nation and our hearts are with them too."
The fact that a Chinese PR company was in charge of distributing many of North Korea's tickets -- and that it chose to dole them out to actors and other performers -- fueled speculation that those decked out in North Korean jerseys were actually Chinese impostors.
Blogs, Facebook and Twitter have been abuzz with the rumor.
"It's totally sad if it's true that N. Korea paid Chinese actors to be in the stands and cheer on N. Korea," James Baraloto wrote in a Facebook discussion under a posting from SoccerJones.com.
"It must have been hard for them as the audience was 99 percent Brazilian, and it would be really sad if they really did pay a couple of Chinese fans to pose as North Korean fans," Li Heng Chan wrote in the same message string.
At Tuesday's game, the cluster of North Korean supporters was drowned out in a sea of more than 54,000 boisterous Brazil fans. The lowest-ranked team besides the host to qualify for the World Cup (No. 105), North Korea lost to No. 1 five-time champions Brazil 2-1 but managed to hold them scoreless for more than half the game.
North Koreans aren't allowed to leave their closed, secretive communist nation without government approval. While visiting South Africa, the North Korean players are accompanied by government minders, presumably to limit their contact with Western ideas or prevent them from trying to defect.
"They're kept private because they're only thinking about competition. They would like to meet journalists, but they don't have time," Sung said when asked about why the North Korean players don't appear at FIFA news conferences alongside other teams.
Pyongyang is notoriously secretive and controlling of its citizens, and the North Korean team's trip to the World Cup comes at a particularly high point in tensions on the Korean peninsula. The North was implicated in the alleged torpedoing of the South Korean warship Cheonan in March, for which Pyongyang denies any involvement. But even today the North's main newspaper ran a commentary saying the incident has ratcheted up tensions so high that any even "minor accidental incident could trigger an all-out war."
Another North Korean diplomat in South Africa, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he's not authorized to speak to journalists, told AOL News he's upset that his country's appearance at the World Cup has sparked "fabrications and speculations" in the media.
"Why would we bring other nationalities instead of Koreans? What for? It's so strange to me," he said. "Truth will be revealed as history flows. We don't need to make an effort to reveal our truth," he said cryptically. "There are so many lies in this world, like about the Cheonan warship."
His colleague, Sung, was more optimistic about what World Cup publicity could do for his country. "All the members of our embassy went to watch at the stadium," he said. "We heard the vuvuzelas when our team scored and felt proud."
Asked whether the traditional South African trumpets might catch on back home in North Korea, Sung replied: "Yeah, why not?" |
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