VOA常速英语2007年-Disabling of N. Korea Nuclear Facilities Going
时间：2019-02-17 作者：英语课 分类：VOA常速英语2007年（十一月）
Seoul
06 November 2007
A senior U.S. envoy 1 who spent this weekend in North Korea says authorities there are cooperating in the process of disabling the country's nuclear facilities. As VOA's Kurt Achin reports from Seoul, the shutdown is part of a wider diplomatic process aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear weapons capabilities 2 for good.
Senior State Department envoy Sung Kim, who oversaw 3 the start of North Korea's disabling of several major nuclear facilities, said the process is going well.
Kim was speaking in Seoul on Tuesday after leading a team of U.S. experts to the North to supervise the process. He says so far, so good.
"I think we are off to a good start," he said. "I hope to achieve all the disablement, at least this phase of disablement, by December 31."
Kim says his team had supervised disabling activities at Yongbyon and several other facilities.
North Korea tested its first nuclear weapon in October of last year, in defiance 4 of international agreements and warnings from the global community.
Since then, however, North Korea has taken first steps in implementing 5 a multinational 6 diplomatic framework aimed at ending its nuclear weapons.
Earlier this year, Pyongyang halted operations at its main nuclear plant in Yongbyon in exchange for energy aid, as it had promised in talks with China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States.
Diplomats 7 describe "disabling" as a process that would make any restarting of nuclear activity very costly 8 and time-consuming. They say it is a prelude 9 to dismantling 10 the facilities altogether -- a task expected to be discussed sometime next year.
Kim describes North Korean officials as "very cooperative", but says he did not receive any details of the North's planned nuclear declaration.
The second phase of the six-nation agreement offers impoverished 11 North Korea even more energy assistance if it declares all of its nuclear facilities and then substantially disables them.
China is expected to convene 12 another round of six-nation talks in Beijing soon to review the North's declaration.
North Korea has much to gain from ending its nuclear programs including normalized relations with U.S.
A state department spokesman confirmed Washington has begun the lengthy 13 process of removing North Korea from the list of states defined as sponsoring terrorism, a possible prelude to better relations with Pyongyang.
- Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
- The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。
- He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities. 他有点自大，自视甚高。 来自辞典例句
- Some programmers use tabs to break complex product capabilities into smaller chunks. 一些程序员认为，标签可以将复杂的功能分为每个窗格一组简单的功能。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
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- Dixon oversaw the project as creative director of Design Research Studio. 狄克逊监督项目的创意总监设计研究工作室。 来自互联网
- He climbed the ladder in defiance of the warning.他无视警告爬上了那架梯子。
- He slammed the door in a spirit of defiance.他以挑衅性的态度把门砰地一下关上。
- -- Implementing a comprehensive drug control strategy. ――实行综合治理的禁毒战略。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
- He was in no hurry about implementing his unshakable principle. 他并不急于实行他那不可动摇的原则。 来自辞典例句
- The firm was taken over by a multinational consulting firm.这家公司被一个跨国咨询公司收购。
- He analyzed the relationship between multinational corporations and under-developed countries.他分析了跨国公司和不发达国家之间的关系。
- These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
- The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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- The prelude to the musical composition is very long.这首乐曲的序曲很长。
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- The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。
- The dismantling of a nuclear reprocessing plant caused a leak of radioactivity yesterday. 昨天拆除核后处理工厂引起了放射物泄漏。
- the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
- They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The Diet will convene at 3p.m. tomorrow.国会将于明天下午三点钟开会。
- Senior officials convened in October 1991 in London.1991年10月，高级官员在伦敦会齐。