美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-04-12

 The breaking news, tonight the White House now say that North Korea launching one of their ballistic missile quoted could be imminent¹. Also, Pyongyang and Washington were talking secretly just days before they showdown began. A.L. is in South Korea monitoring those developments as well as a sharp threat from the North today.Kim, the possible ballistic missile test what do we know about?

 

Well, we know that is all eyes on the east coast of North Korea where the launch could be as you say imminent according to South Korea presidential office.They expected of highest likelihood is right now. The morning hours of April 10th that it is April 10th here in Asia. So everyone is watching to see if the missile launch is going to be happening, in these early hours at anytime right now. And something that we could mention Anderson is that this is unusual twisted. South Korea's Fishery and Ocean's department seems very random² to mention this, but this department is usually notified by North Korea if there is going to be a missile launch. In this case, they weren't notified. This is different and this is significant. It tells us that Kim Jong-un is sending a message. He is changing the world game. He is not his daddy, he is thereby³ Anderson, more unpredictable and thereby more dangerous.

 

What do we know about this potential missile test? What kind of missile? Where would it be fired toward? What kinds of steps have been taken in the region to prepare for?

 

Well, the assumption at this point is that it's going to be intermediate rock test launch and that the assumption again.These are all assumption because we simply don't know North Korea is proving to be so unpredictable this month. The assumption is probably gonn ahead out to the water, but no one takes any chances. If you go to Airbase in South Korea right now as we did, at the old sound airbase we saw U.S.patrol missile batteries pointed⁴ right up to the sky they are pointing to North. U.S. bases have been targeted, they have been told by North Korea that you are target so they are preparation on the ground to make sure that nothing falls on them.

 

We see North Korea issue warning to diplomats⁵ to leave embassies in North Korea.Now today the foreigners in South  Korea how seriously that have been taken.

 

It's taken seriously and then not seriously. Seriously because foreigners are used to be targeted by Pyongyang. This is something a little more weird⁶ than the usual noise and how we hear out of the noise. They specifically pointed out foreigners in South Korea should leave, they should evacuate⁷. That's a big more extreme what we heard normally out of the North. So people here, I spoke⁸ with one American woman, she is doing business here in South Korea.She says she has to change his routine, but she did check with U.S. embassy her very first time, Anderson. There is an elevated level of concern, but no alarm.

 

Now a lot have been made obviously about the lack of different channels between U.S.and North Korea.We are finding out tonight they were actually direct communications between the two countries last month. What do you know about that?

 

We know is that these regular back channel meetings. In a meeting, that I had with U.S.officials we know that this is something that's normal on these back channel meetings, but they are secret, because United States does not have relations direct normal relations with Pyongyang.But in this meeting, any did happen prior to all these escalation⁹ in this region. There was a meeting. The United States saying we want to try a move. We are off to a diplomatic road. But message certainly is not being appreciated by Pyongyang if the message was delivered at all, because we are where we are, Anderson.

1 imminent   

adj.即将发生的，临近的，逼近的

参考例句：

• The black clounds show that a storm is imminent.乌云预示暴风雨即将来临。
• The country is in imminent danger.国难当头。

2 random   

adj.随机的；任意的；n.偶然的(或随便的)行动

参考例句：

• The list is arranged in a random order.名单排列不分先后。
• On random inspection the meat was found to be bad.经抽查，发现肉变质了。

3 thereby   

adv.因此，从而

参考例句：

• I have never been to that city,,ereby I don't know much about it.我从未去过那座城市，因此对它不怎么熟悉。
• He became a British citizen,thereby gaining the right to vote.他成了英国公民，因而得到了投票权。

4 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

5 diplomats   

n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 )；有手腕的人，善于交际的人

参考例句：

• 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》

6 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

7 evacuate   

v.遣送；搬空；抽出；排泄；大(小)便

参考例句：

• We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
• They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。

8 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

9 escalation   

n.扩大，增加

参考例句：

• The threat of nuclear escalation remains. 核升级的威胁仍旧存在。 来自辞典例句
• Escalation is thus an aspect of deterrence and of crisis management. 因此逐步升级是威慑和危机处理的一个方面。 来自辞典例句