英国新闻听力 朝鲜拒绝恢复南北对话

World News from BBC.

North Korea has rejected an offer by the South Korean President Lee Myung-bak to resume the reconciliation¹ talks he suspended in February. The North's state newspaper said Mr. Lee was trying to avoid his personal responsibility for the country's strained relations. Mr. Lee was criticized in the South for offering to restart the talks just hours after a South Korean tourist was shot dead by a North Korean soldier on Friday.

Britain says it will push the European Union to impose tough new sanctions on the Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and other top officials of his government.The British minister for Africa Mark Malloch-Brown said Britain would keep up the pressure on Zimbabwean government despite failing to get the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions.

1 reconciliation   

n.和解，和谐，一致

参考例句：

• He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
• Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。