◎陳維真 2011/08/30
North Korea expelled all remaining South Korean workers Tuesday from a stalled joint tourism resort in the North, putting what was once a symbol of inter-Korean cooperation in danger of collapse.
北韓週二驅逐所有留在金剛山的南韓工作人員，金剛山是兩韓合營的北韓觀光勝地，此舉將讓這個一度是兩韓合作的象徵陷入瓦解危機。
The two Koreas launched joint tours at the scenic Diamond Mountain in 1998 as part of reconciliation efforts. But the tours, which were a rare legitimate source of hard currency for the impoverished North, were suspended in 2008 after a North Korean guard fatally shot a South Korean tourist.
兩韓在1998年聯合發起金剛山旅遊行程，做為和解計畫的一部分，也是赤貧的北韓獲得強勢貨幣的少數合法來源之一。但在2008年北韓士兵射殺一名南韓觀光客後，金剛山觀光被喊停。
North Korea has called for the tours’ resumption, but South Korea demands that Pyongyang apologize for the shooting death and allow a joint investigation. An angry North Korea responded by vowing to open the resort to international investors. This week, the country ordered all South Koreans to leave the resort within 72 hours and announced it would scrap all South Korean assets there.
北韓呼籲重新恢復金剛山觀光，但南韓要求平壤當局對槍擊事件致歉，並展開聯合調查。北韓盛怒之下，以開放金剛山給國際投資人回應。本週，北韓命令所有南韓人在72小時內離開金剛山，並宣布將報廢當地所有南韓資產。
Ties between the two Koreas plunged to one of their lowest points last year as the North shelled a South Korean island and allegedly torpedoed a South Korean warship. The two Koreas are still technically at war because their conflict in the 1950s ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty.
兩韓之間的關係在去年北韓砲擊南韓離島，以及據稱擊沉南韓艦艇時降到最低點。由於兩韓在1950年代的衝突結束時，簽署的是停戰協定，而非和平條約，嚴格來說，雙方目前仍處於交戰狀態。
新聞辭典：
expel： 動詞，驅逐。例句：He was expelled from his native country.（他遭到國家驅逐出境。）
hard currency：強勢貨幣。例句：North Korea had secretly been selling art abroad to earn much-needed hard currey. （北韓秘密將藝術品賣到國外，以賺取需求急切的強勢貨幣。）
scrap：動詞，拆除、報廢。例句：The school has scrapped the oldest building on campus. （學校報廢掉最老的那棟建築物。）
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