正恩氏妻を「わいせつ」に描いたビラ、北朝鮮が激怒の理由とロシア大使

【モスクワＡＦＰ＝時事】北朝鮮を批判するビラを脱北者団体が散布し、北朝鮮の激しい怒りを招いていることについて、駐北朝鮮ロシア大使はビラに金正恩（キム・ジョンウン）朝鮮労働党委員長の夫人を「わいせつで侮辱的」に表現したことに起因するとの見方を示した。（写真は）
　北朝鮮政府はここ数週間、韓国に住む脱北者らがビラを風船で軍事境界線を越えて飛ばしたり、ボトルに入れて流したりしていることについて、激しい批判を展開している。
　こうした活動は長年にわたり南北間の争点になっていたが、北側は今回、南北共同連絡事務所を爆破し、軍事的措置を示唆するなど圧力を強めた。
　ロシアのアレクサンドル・マツェゴラ駐北朝鮮大使によると、直近で実施された５月３１日のビラ散布で、金氏の妻、李雪主（リ・ソルジュ）夫人の挑発的な画像があったことから、北朝鮮政府の「冗談では済まない激しい怒り」を招いたという。
　ロシアは孤立化している北朝鮮にとって主要な友好国であり、マツェゴラ氏は首都平壌に最も長く駐在している大使の一人だ。
　マツェゴラ氏は２９日、ロシア国営のタス通信の取材に対し「ビラには最高指導者の夫人を標的にした、ある種のわいせつで侮辱的なプロパガンダが載っていた」と話した。
　また、同氏によると「ひどく下等な」加工が施された画像が、北朝鮮側の我慢の限界を超える最後の一撃になったという。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2020/07/01-13:08）

North Korea's fury over anti-Pyongyang leaflets launched from the South is driven by dirty, insulting depictions of leader Kim Jong Un's spouse, Russia's top envoy in the reclusive country has said.
In recent weeks Pyongyang has issued a series of vitriolic condemnations over anti-North leaflets which defectors based in the South send across the militarised border -- usually attached to balloons or floated in bottles.
The campaigns have long been a point of contention between the two Koreas, but this time, Pyongyang upped the pressure, blowing up a liaison office and threatening military measures.
One of the most recent launches -- carried out on May 31 -- had included provocative imagery of the North's First Lady Ri Sol Ju, sparking serious outrage in Pyongyang, according to Russian ambassador to North Korea Alexander Matsegora.
Russia is a key ally of the isolated North and Matsegora is one of the longest serving ambassadors in Pyongyang.
The leaflets bore a special kind of dirty, insulting propaganda, aimed at the leader's spouse, Matsegora told Russia's TASS news agency on Monday.
They were photoshopped in such a low-grade way, he added, and served as the last straw for the North.
Inter-Korean relations have been in deep freeze following the collapse of a summit between Kim and US President Donald Trump early last year over what the nuclear-armed North would be willing to give up in exchange for a loosening of sanctions.
Pyongyang turned its anger against Seoul rather than Washington, despite three summits between the North's leader and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who brokered the first Trump-Kim meeting in Singapore.
The impoverished country is subject to multiple UN Security Council sanctions over its banned weapons programmes.
The Russian diplomat also dismissed speculation that Kim's younger sister was being trained as the next leader of North Korea.
Since early June, Kim Yo Jong -- a key adviser to her brother -- has been the face of Pyongyang's highly aggressive stance towards the South over the leaflets.
North Korea blew up the liaison office days after she warned it would soon be seen completely collapsed, and later she called Moon disgusting and apparently insane.
Despite her serious political and foreign policy experience, Matsegora said Kim Yo Jong was rather young.
There is absolutely no reason to say that she is being trained to take the helm, Matsegora said.
No one dares to call themselves number two in the country, he added.
I think that if you asked comrade Kim Yo Jong whether she was number two, she would answer with a strong 'no'.