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In February 2018 Jessie Kim found out that she had been sending money to a dead man.
2018年2月，Jessie Kim發(fā)現(xiàn)自己一直在給一個死人打錢。
Ms Kim, now a 27-year-old student in Seoul, fled North Korea for China in 2011.
現(xiàn)年Kim27歲的Kim是首爾的一名學(xué)生，2011年逃離了朝鮮。
She had been sending her father in Yanggang province in the North around $1,000 a year since she arrived in South Korea in early 2014.
自從2014年年初來到韓國后，她每年都會給她在朝鮮兩江道的父親寄近1000美元。
Two years later she doubled the contributions, working several part-time jobs,
兩年后她兼職幾分工作，給父親寄了兩倍的錢，
after her aunt told her that her father had been in an accident and needed money for medical bills.
因此她的姑媽告訴她，她的父親遭遇車禍需要醫(yī)療費。
But another call from her aunt last winter, claiming that her father was asking for yet more money, made her suspicious.
但是去年冬天，她的姑媽又給她打了個電話，聲稱她的父親問她要更多的錢，這個電話讓她起疑。
"He wasn't the kind of man to ask his daughter for money," she says.
“他不是那種問女兒要錢的人，”她說。
Ms Kim made enquiries through the broker who had facilitated the transactions.
Kim詢問了幫助她匯款的經(jīng)紀(jì)人。
She eventually found out that her father had died in the accident in 2016 and that the money had gone to her aunt's family instead.
最終她發(fā)現(xiàn)她的父親在2016年的車禍中就已經(jīng)去世了，那些錢都到了姑媽一家的手中。
Ms Kim's case illustrates the pitfalls of supporting relatives in a country that is all but cut off from global communications and financial-services networks.
Kim的故事描繪出了一個和全球通訊以及金融服務(wù)網(wǎng)絡(luò)完全切斷聯(lián)系的國家中，幫襯親戚們的陷阱。
Ordinary North Koreans are not allowed to receive money or even phone calls from abroad.
普通朝鮮人不允許接收來自國外的資金，甚至是電話。
Foreign banks are hesitant to handle any transaction associated with the North, for fear of falling foul of sanctions,
外國銀行在處理任何和朝鮮有關(guān)的交易時都會猶豫不決，
intended to curtail its nuclear programme, that have been imposed by America and others.
因害怕違反美國和其他國家為削減朝鮮核計劃而對其實施的制裁。
Yet the relationship between the 30,000-odd North Korean refugees in South Korea
但韓國30萬朝鮮逃亡者
and their relatives back home shows that the North is much less closed than at first appears.
與他們朝鮮親戚的關(guān)系表明朝鮮并沒有看起來的那么封閉。
A growing proportion of those who have settled in the South manage to send money home.
越來越多定于韓國的朝鮮逃亡者在往家里寄錢。
In 2018, 62% of refugees surveyed by the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights (NKDB), an NGO in Seoul,
2018年，一家首爾民間組織，朝鮮人權(quán)數(shù)據(jù)庫中心（NKDB）對逃亡者進(jìn)行調(diào)查，
said they had transferred funds to relatives or friends in North Korea, up from 50% in 2013.
其中62%的人表示他們給朝鮮的親戚朋友寄過錢，比2013的50%多。
Most respondents say they sent between $500 and $2,000 a year, which was mostly spent on basic living expenses, health and education.
大部分被調(diào)查者表示他們一年會寄500到2000美元不等，多數(shù)都用于基本生活支出、健康和教育。
The annual total may run into the tens of millions of dollars.
年度總額可能共計數(shù)千萬美元。
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