万花筒 2013-05-19&05-21 朝鲜发射导弹再惊世界

 Hi, good morning everyone.We begin with breaking news overnight.

 

New provocations¹ from North Korea,

 

the rogue² nation firing three short-range missiles into the water between North Korea and Japan.And ABC's Akiko Fujita is in Tokyo this morning and join us with the latest,

 

so Akiko .

 

The South Korean Defence Ministry³ says North Korea fired three missiles off its east coast.Two in the morning,

 

followed by another in the afternoon.

 

These are short-range guided missiles,

 

not the mid-range Musudan missiles Washington has feared Pyongyang would launch last month.The missiles launched today are only capable of traveling several hundred miles at most.

 

And

 

officials here in Tokyo say the missiles never reached Japanese waters.

 

North Korea has known to fire a short-range missile once every several months,

 

but the launches today followed the arrival of the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Nimitz,

 

a move Pyongyang has strongly criticized.The ship was brought into South Korea last week for joining U.S naval⁴ drills.

 

And North Korea's state TV called that an extremely reckless attempt to invade their country and added that the risk of a nuclear war and the peninsula has risen due to the madcap war practice by the U.S. and the South enemy forces.

1 provocations   

n.挑衅( provocation的名词复数 )；激怒；刺激；愤怒的原因

参考例句：

• 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》

2 rogue   

n.流氓；v.游手好闲

参考例句：

• The little rogue had his grandpa's glasses on.这淘气鬼带上了他祖父的眼镜。
• They defined him as a rogue.他们确定他为骗子。

3 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

4 naval   

adj.海军的，军舰的，船的

参考例句：

• He took part in a great naval battle.他参加了一次大海战。
• The harbour is an important naval base.该港是一个重要的海军基地。