批评人士敦促韩国总统李在明去玩这款大热视频游戏的最新续作，以便更好地认识到防范朝鲜入侵的必要性。
South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung has been urged by critics to play the latest instalment in the blockbuster video game franchise to better appreciate the need for defences against an invasion by the North.
在反对派议员发出这一呼吁之前，该游戏于周五发布。这是一款第一人称射击游戏，描绘了朝鲜对韩国发动的全面奇袭。玩家在游戏中扮演韩国海军陆战队下士朴贤俊（Park Hyun-jun），与朝鲜军队作战。
The call from opposition lawmakers follows the release on Friday of , a first-person shooter depicting a full-scale surprise attack by North Korea on the South. Players fight North Korean troops as Park Hyun-jun, a private in the South Korean Marine Corps.
该游戏描绘了首尔市中心的巷战，其中包含一项突袭朝鲜领导人驻地的任务，该驻地酷似锦绣山太阳宫——朝鲜已故最高领导人金日成的故居兼陵墓。
The game depicts urban combat in central Seoul and includes a mission to raid a North Korean leadership compound resembling the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, the former residence turned mausoleum of the North’s founding supreme leader Kim Il-sung.
韩国人对该游戏的反应至少可以说是毁誉参半。进步派公民团体“烛光行动”的共同主席金智善在6月份该游戏内容的传闻开始传播时就曾质问：“在我们依然是一个处于停战状态的分裂国家之际，制作和商业化一款人们互相杀戮的游戏，这正常吗？”
South Koreans’ reactions to the game have been mixed, to say the least. Kim Ji-sun, co-chair of the progressive civic group Candlelight Action, questioned in June as news of the game’s content began to spread whether it was “normal to create and commercialise a game in which people kill one another when we remain a divided country under an armistice?”.
首尔金大中和平中心执行主任金圣宰本月早些时候在接受《韩民族日报》采访时补充说，由于该游戏的潜在地缘政治影响，它的发布理应得到政府的回应。
Kim Sung-jae, executive director of the Kim Dae-jung Peace Centre in Seoul, added in comments to the Hankyoreh newspaper earlier this month that the game’s release warranted a government response due to its potential geopolitical implications.
他说：“目前，韩国政府正致力于恢复与朝鲜的和平关系。如果该游戏的发布导致对朝鲜的仇恨和蔑视不断加剧，我们可能会看到对朝韩关系产生意料之外的负面影响。”据《韩国中央日报》报道，该游戏在分发平台Steam上的评价大多为正面，在周五发布后的几小时内，近90%的韩国玩家给出了好评。
“At the moment, the South Korean government is working to restore peaceful relations with North Korea,” he said. “If this game’s release leads to growing hatred and contempt towards the North, we could see unintended negative consequences for inter-Korean relations.”Reviews of the game on distribution platform Steam have been mostly positive, with nearly 90 per cent of Korean players providing positive feedback within hours of its release on Friday, according to the Korea Joong Ang Daily newspaper.
然而，反对派政客迅速利用这款游戏来批评李总统对平壤采取的温和路线。
Opposition politicians, however, were quick to seize on the game to criticise President Lee’s conciliatory approach towards Pyongyang.
据《韩国先驱报》报道，在该游戏发布的当天，国民力量党前成员、无党派保守派议员韩东勋敦促李在明亲自玩这款游戏，以认识到国防防范不足的潜在后果。
On the day of the game’s release, independent conservative lawmaker Han Dong-hoon, a former member of the People Power Party, urged Lee to play the game himself to appreciate the potential consequences of inadequate defence preparedness, The Korea Herald reported.
韩东勋在脸书上写道：“当然，这是一个虚构的故事。但朝鲜在1950年6月25日的入侵是一个历史现实，而今天朝鲜的军事威胁依然非常真实。”这位前法务部长质疑首尔是否准备好应对游戏中那种规模的入侵，并批评李在明在10月19日将朝鲜的核武库称为“最后的防御性武器”。
“Of course, it is a fictional story,” Han wrote on Facebook. “But North Korea’s invasion on June 25, 1950, was a historical reality, and the North Korean military threat remains very real today.”The former justice minister questioned whether Seoul was prepared for an invasion on the scale of the one shown in the game, criticising Lee for calling North Korea’s nuclear arsenal a “last-resort defensive weapon” on October 19.
韩东勋还对最近削减韩美联合军事演习以及政府推动将战时作战指挥权从华盛顿移交给首尔的做法提出了异议。
Han also took issue with the recent reduction in joint military exercises with the United States and the government’s push to transfer wartime operation control of the military from Washington to Seoul.
韩东勋表示，他希望游戏剧情中描绘的事件不会成为现实，但补充说：“国家安全关乎的不是希望，而是准备。”现任国民力量党成员安哲秀同样利用这款游戏批评李在明的政策。
Han said he was hopeful that the events shown in the game scenario would not become a reality but added: “National security is not about hope, but preparation.”Current People Power Party member Ahn Cheol-soo similarly used the game to criticise Lee’s policies.
上周三他在社交媒体上发布了一段该游戏的宣传视频，并写道：“如果你不理解朝鲜挑衅的危险性，至少去试试玩这款游戏。哪怕只是观看游戏实况画面，也能让你明白总统天真的判断会给韩国带来多大灾难性的破坏。”
Posting a promotional video of the game on social media last Wednesday, he wrote: “If you don’t understand the dangers of North Korean provocations, at least try playing . Even just watching gameplay footage would teach you how much catastrophic damage the president’s naive judgment could inflict on South Korea.”
一个小型反对党周日将该游戏的虚拟战争与朝韩边境发生的现实事件进行了对比。改革党副发言人崔济日（Choi Je-il）指出9月21日造成3名韩国士兵受伤的两起疑似地雷爆炸事件，并表示和平只能来自对军事威胁的清晰评估，而不是依赖善意。他说：“政治必须比电子游戏更准确地正视这些威胁的现实。”
A minor opposition party on Sunday compared the game’s virtual warfare to a real-world incident along the inter-Korean border. Pointing to the two suspected landmine explosions that injured three South Korean soldiers on September 21, Reform Party deputy spokesman Choi Je-il said peace would only come from a clear assessment of military threats rather than a reliance on goodwill. “Politics must confront the reality of those threats more accurately than a video game does,” he said.
然而，《韩国中央日报》引用的一位游戏评论员提醒人们不要将虚构作品政治化。要求匿名的这位评论员说：“通过政治镜头看待创意作品会转移人们对作品本身的注意力。我们还应特别小心，不要把一款外国制作的游戏变成一场政治辩论。”
However, a game critic quoted by the Korea Joong Ang Daily cautioned against politicising fiction. “Viewing creative works through a political lens distracts from the work itself,” said the critic, who requested anonymity. “We should also be especially careful not to turn a foreign-made game into a political debate.”
姓张的玩家补充说：“这只是一场游戏。而且它难道没有准确描绘出韩国分裂的现实吗？”
“It’s just a game,” added a player surnamed Jang. “And doesn’t it accurately depict the reality of Korea being divided?”
朝韩双方在技术上仍处于交战状态，因为它们在20世纪50年代的冲突于1953年7月27日以停战协定而非和平条约告终。该系列的发行商动视公司尚未对这一争议发表评论。
The two Koreas remain technically at war as the conflict between them in the 1950s ended in an armistice on July 27, 1953, rather than a peace treaty. Activision, the publisher behind the franchise, has yet to comment on the controversy.
据游戏媒体平台和社区门户网站Inven报道，文化体育观光部长官崔辉永周五在首尔国会针对关于最新续作的提问表示，李在明政府“不对游戏进行事前审查”。本文作者为《南华早报》亚洲新闻部
On Friday, Culture Minister Choi Hwi-young told the National Assembly in Seoul that Lee’s government “does not practice prior censorship on games”, when asked about the latest instalment, as reported by gaming media platform and community portal Inven. By SCMP’s Asia desk