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Meantime there are signs of strain appearing in the rollercoaster relationship between the United States and North Korea. For about a year and a half now, their leaders have tried and failed to reach an agreement concerning North Korea's controversial nuclear program. America has a number of penalties in place on North Korea's economy and the communist country wants those removed first before it gets rid of its nuclear program. The U.S. wants North Korea to denuclearize first before the sanctions are lifted. So they've been butting¹ heads there. And in recent days, U.S. President Donald Trump² and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un have traded words of warning.

PAULA HANCOCKSE: We are back in familiar territory here — a test from North Korea over the weekend and then followed by this increasing rhetoric³ between the North Koreans and the United States. Now on Sunday, the North Koreans announced that they had the day before carried out a very important, very successful test. They didn't specify⁴ what exactly it was. But experts looking at satellite imagery say that they believe that it was a rocket engine test. We're waiting for confirmation⁵ from Pyongyang on that. But it could be used for launching satellite launchers or ICBM's into continental⁶ ballistic missiles that potentially could hit mainland United States. That is the particular missile that Washington is most concerned with.

Now we did have a response from the U.S. President Donald Trump saying that he believed that Kim Jong-Un is too smart to throw everything away and said that he would lose everything if, in fact, he was acting⁷ in a hostile way. Also saying that acting in a hostile way could avoid the special relationship between him and Kim Jong-Un. Now we've heard a reaction as well from the North Korean side fairly quickly. This was from Kim Yong Chol, the former nuclear negotiator of North Korea, who met with President Trump just in January of this year in the Oval Office at the White House and delivered a message, a very positive message from Kim Jong-Un at the time.

But he has said that these remarks from the U.S. president are inappropriate, they are dangerous. If he continues then Kim Jong-Un may have to reassess what he thinks of the U.S. president saying North Korea has nothing more to lose. Now up until this point North Korean officials have been very careful not to slam the U.S. president. They have slammed the U.S. policy when it comes to North Korea but never President Trump himself. So certainly that is something that is changing. And also just on Saturday we heard from the North Korean Ambassador to the U.N. Kim Song saying that the denuclearization was off the table when it comes to negotiation⁸ with the U.S. and they have no need now for lengthy⁹ talks with the U.S. So clearly the relationship between the U.S. and North Korea is suffering at this point.

Most of New Zealand's population lives on its North Island. And a little more than 30 miles from it is the Bay of Plenty, where you'll find White Island. And that's where an active volcano erupted Monday while 47 tourists were on it. Dozens of them were injured and hospitalized. At least five people were killed and eight were still missing when we produced this show. On Tuesday morning, New Zealand police said there were no signs of life on White Island but rescuers couldn't actually set foot there to search because it was so unstable¹⁰. New Zealand's on the Pacific Ring of Fire, a belt of eruptions¹¹ and earthquakes.

1 butting   

用头撞人（犯规动作）

参考例句：

• When they were talking Mary kept butting in. 当他们在谈话时，玛丽老是插嘴。
• A couple of goats are butting each other. 两只山羊在用角互相顶撞。

2 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

3 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

4 specify   

vt.指定，详细说明

参考例句：

• We should specify a time and a place for the meeting.我们应指定会议的时间和地点。
• Please specify what you will do.请你详述一下你将做什么。

5 confirmation   

n.证实，确认，批准

参考例句：

• We are waiting for confirmation of the news.我们正在等待证实那个消息。
• We need confirmation in writing before we can send your order out.给你们发送订购的货物之前，我们需要书面确认。

6 continental   

adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的

参考例句：

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
• The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。

7 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

8 negotiation   

n.谈判，协商

参考例句：

• They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
• The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。

9 lengthy   

adj.漫长的，冗长的

参考例句：

• We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
• The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。

10 unstable   

adj.不稳定的，易变的

参考例句：

• This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实，装不了这么多书。
• The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。

11 eruptions   

n.喷发，爆发( eruption的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• There have been several volcanic eruptions this year. 今年火山爆发了好几次。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Over 200 people have been killed by volcanic eruptions. 火山喷发已导致200多人丧生。 来自辞典例句