朝鮮的海外餐飲帝國 賺外國人大筆金錢
North Korea, which often struggles to feed its own people, is making millions feeding foreigners.
在自己的人民常常忍飢挨餓的同時，朝鮮卻在向外國人提供餐飲，賺到大筆金錢。
Entities linked to Kim Jong-un’s pariah state run an expanding empire of restaurants abroad, complete with singing and dancing waitresses in traditional dress. They cater to tourists and businesspeople, many of them South Koreans, and they pump badly needed hard-currency profits back to the communist North, which is largely cut off from the world economy by sanctions over its nuclear weapons program.
與金正恩的孤立政權有關聯的實體在朝鮮之外運營着一個不斷擴張的餐飲帝國，提供的服務包括身穿傳統服裝載歌載舞的女服務員。它們招待旅遊者和商務人士，其中不少人來自韓國；這些餐廳向共產主義朝鮮源源不絕地輸送它迫切需要的硬通貨。朝鮮因發展核武器而受到制裁，其經濟在很大程度上與世界經濟隔絕。
(Because the restaurants handle a lot of cash, they are also suspected of being a convenient conduit for laundering money from some of the North’s sanctions-busting activities.)
（由於這些餐廳經手大量現金，因此被懷疑充當了方便的渠道，用來替朝鮮那些打破制裁的活動洗錢。）
There are about 130 of the restaurants, most of them in China, though also in Southeast and South Asia and a few farther afield, in Russia, Mongolia and even the Netherlands. Many are named Pyongyang after the North’s capital. Their menus often feature a specialty of the city, cold noodle, along with many variations on kimchi and, in some Asian locations at least, dog-meat soup.
朝鮮開設了大約130家這樣的餐廳，大部分在中國，不過東南亞和南亞也有，還擴展到了俄羅斯以及蒙古，甚至連荷蘭也有。不少餐廳都以朝鮮的首都平壤命名。菜單上往往有平壤特色冷麪，以及許多種泡菜，至少一些開在亞洲的餐廳還供應狗肉湯。
The North Korean waitresses are said to be thoroughly screened for loyalty and carefully watched by security agents, but there have been reports that some have tried to defect. When that happens, evidently, the restaurant may be swiftly shut down and the rest of the staff shipped home.
據說，朝鮮女服務員都是經過細緻篩選，確保忠誠的，也受到安全人員的嚴密監視。但是也有報道說，有些人試圖叛逃。有跡象表明，叛逃事件一旦發生，這家飯館可能就會立即停業，其他工作人員也被送回國。
The Pyongyang chain hit the headlines in February when the South Korean government, eager to step up pressure on the North after a provocative missile test, urged its citizens to stop patronizing the restaurants when they travel.
今年2月，這些平壤連鎖店上了新聞——在朝鮮一次挑釁性的導彈試驗之後，韓國政府迫切希望向朝鮮施壓，敦促其國民在旅行時不要光顧這些餐廳。
