Keeping the Pressure on North Korea
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2018年(一月)
A campaign of maximum pressure is essential to resolving the North Korean nuclear threat through diplomatic means, said Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the Foreign Ministers' Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula.
“Our nations,” said Mr. Tillerson, “repeated a unified 1 message that we have sent the regime before: We will not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea. All of us share one policy and one goal, and that is the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
Secretary Tillerson stressed that the United States' “common cause with others in the region, most particularly China and Russia, will remain intact despite North Korea's frequent attempts to divide us and sow dissension.” It remains 2 critical for UN member-states, especially China and Russia, to fully 3 implement 4 agreed-upon sanctions.
The U.S. and its partners discussed ways to counter sanctions evasion 5 and smuggling 6, including a call to action to strengthen global maritime 7 interdiction 8 operations to foil the illicit 9 ship-to-ship transfers. The U.S. will continue to press for tighter U.N. sanctions on North Korea should there be subsequent provocations 10.
The goal of the maximum pressure campaign is and always has been to move North Korea towards credible 11 negotiations 12 on denuclearization.
But productive negotiations, cautioned Secretary Tillerson, “require a credible negotiating partner. North Korea has not yet shown themselves to be that credible partner. . . .North Koreans know our channels are open, and they know where to find us. But a sustained cessation of North Korea's threatening behavior is. . .a necessary indicator 13 of whether the regime is truly ready to pursue a peaceful, diplomatic resolution to the security threat that it has created.”
The international community must remain united on sustaining pressure on North Korea until it takes concrete steps toward denuclearization.
- The teacher unified the answer of her pupil with hers. 老师核对了学生的答案。
- The First Emperor of Qin unified China in 221 B.C. 秦始皇于公元前221年统一中国。
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
- They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
- Don't undertake a project unless you can implement it.不要承担一项计划，除非你能完成这项计划。
- The best implement for digging a garden is a spade.在花园里挖土的最好工具是铁锹。
- The movie star is in prison for tax evasion.那位影星因为逃税而坐牢。
- The act was passed as a safeguard against tax evasion.这项法案旨在防止逃税行为。
- Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
- The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。
- Many maritime people are fishermen.许多居于海滨的人是渔夫。
- The temperature change in winter is less in maritime areas.冬季沿海的温差较小。
- the Customs Service's drug interdiction programs 海关的毒品查禁方案
- In addition to patrol duty, blastboats are dispatched for planetary defense and interdiction missions. 除了例行巡逻，炮艇还被赋予行星防御和封锁的任务。
- He had an illicit association with Jane.他和简曾有过不正当关系。
- Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year.今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。
- We cannot ignore such provocations. 对于这种挑衅，我们不能置之不理。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- They must immediately cease all their provocations. 他们必须停止一切挑衅。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- The news report is hardly credible.这则新闻报道令人难以置信。
- Is there a credible alternative to the nuclear deterrent?是否有可以取代核威慑力量的可靠办法？
- negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
- Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。