美國促朝鮮認真對待事態發展

Nine days after North Korea’s latest nuclear test, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Sunday expressed a continued willingness to try to revive dialogue with Pyongyang if it freezes its atomic weapons and ballistic weapons development programs.

朝鮮進行最近一次核試驗九天後，美國國務卿克里星期日表示，如果平壤凍結核武器和彈道導彈發展項目，美國依然願意努力恢復與朝鮮的對話。

A multi-national forum intended to denuclearize the Korean peninsula was set up in 2003, but the parties (both Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States) have not met since December 2008, when talks stalled over verification issues.

這個多國對話機制論壇成立於2003年，包括朝鮮、韓國、中國、日本、俄羅斯和美國，目的是實現朝鮮半島非核化，但是從2008年12月以來，六方會談就沒有再開過會。當時阻礙會談的原因是覈查朝鮮核項目的問題無法得到解決。

Analysts, reviewing open source satellite imagery, say the impoverished country may have completed preparations for three more nuclear tests that could occur at any time.

分析人士在研究了朝鮮衛星圖像之後表示，朝鮮可能已經完成了下面三次核試驗的準備工作。新的核試驗隨時都會開始。

South Korea’s foreign minister, Yu Byung-se, appeared in no mood Sunday to consider negotiations with his country’s arch-rival, in view of Pyongyang’s repeated defiance of U.N. Security Council resolutions and sanctions.

鑑於平壤屢次蔑視聯合國安理會的決議和制裁，韓國外交部長尹炳世星期天似乎不願意考慮與朝鮮官員恢復談判。

Yun called for the current U.N. General Assembly to “send out a united and forceful message,” and impose even more robust sanctions on North Korea as it is “now at the final stage of nuclear weaponization.”

尹炳世要求聯合國大會發出“一個一致而有力的信息”，在朝鮮進入核武化的最後階段對它採取更爲有力的制裁。

Yu warned that Pyongyang’s weapons are a “looming perfect storm that may not only pounce on Northeast Asia but sweep over the entire world.”

尹炳世警告說，平壤的核武器是一個“正在形成的巨大風暴，它可能不只撲向東北亞，也可能橫掃全世界。”