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联合国就朝鲜试爆氢弹实施制裁

play pause stop mute unmute max volume 00:0002:34repeat repeat off Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser¹ to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. AZUZ: From the Middle East to the Far East. Our next stop is in North Korea, a country under a series of penalties or sanctions for its nuclear program.

The international community wants North Korea to quit developing and testing nuclear weapons and the missiles that could carry them. As it's been moving forward with the program, the United Nations has issued new sanctions on North Korea. The goal: to try to keep the country from being able to pay for nuclear weapons development.

A CNN reporter recently visited the communist nation's capital, to get a sense of whether these penalties are being felt yet.

WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Something unusual happened while driving around the North Korean capital, we got stuck in traffic.

Even in the last year and a half that I've been coming here, there's a noticeable increase in the number of cars on the streets here in Pyongyang. The North Koreans will say they have more traffic than they ever have before here. And so, even though there are some of the strongest sanctions that have ever been in place against this country, here in the capital city, North Koreans say they're not feeling the impact, at least not yet.

Tough U.N. sanctions intended to stop North Korea from developing dangerous weapons seem to be having little if any effect on life in Pyongyang, at least the parts we're allowed to see.

The sanctions follow this year's satellite launch and claimed H-bomb tests, actions condemned² even by North Korea's most powerful friend and trading partner China. Chinese state media says the sanctions will begin to hurt within a year.

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And trying to see for ourselves how —

RIPLEY: A CNN crew in this Chinese border city last month could not independently verify if cargo³ to North Korea is being inspected as the sanctions require.

A long-time diplomat⁴ and former ambassador who now runs the Pyongyang think tank believes sanctions won't hinder North Korea's military or economy.

"We built a socialist⁵ country under U.S. sanctions ever since our liberation," says Ri Jong Ryul, "under our beloved comrade Kim Jong-un's need, everyone is working hard." He is ordering more weapons tests, including a recent apparent failed missile launch.

"We assert the U.S. is the real culprit of the aggravated⁶ situation in the Korean peninsula," Ri says, referring to eight weeks of U.S. and South Korea military exercises.

"We must defend our supreme⁷ leader's dignity, our republic's sovereignty and our people's right to live," he says, "at any cost."

The U.S. calls it a path to further isolation⁸ and hardship. North Korea calls it the only way to survive.

Will Ripley, CNN, Pyongyang.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

3 cargo   

n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物

参考例句：

• The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
• A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。

4 diplomat   

n.外交官，外交家；能交际的人，圆滑的人

参考例句：

• The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.那位外交官插进一个笑话，紧张的气氛顿时缓和下来。
• He served as a diplomat in Russia before the war.战前他在俄罗斯当外交官。

5 socialist   

n.社会主义者；adj.社会主义的

参考例句：

• China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
• His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。

6 aggravated   

使恶化( aggravate的过去式和过去分词 )； 使更严重； 激怒； 使恼火

参考例句：

• If he aggravated me any more I shall hit him. 假如他再激怒我，我就要揍他。
• Far from relieving my cough, the medicine aggravated it. 这药非但不镇咳，反而使我咳嗽得更厉害。

7 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

8 isolation   

n.隔离，孤立，分解，分离

参考例句：

• The millionaire lived in complete isolation from the outside world.这位富翁过着与世隔绝的生活。
• He retired and lived in relative isolation.他退休后，生活比较孤寂。