VOA标准英语--美国对朝鲜已不存在任何战略性忍耐

Strategic Patience With North Korea is Over

Vice¹ President Mike Pence put North Korea on notice during his recent trip to Asia.

In a joint² appearance, Vice President Pence and South Korean acting³ president Hwang Kyo-ahn said they would strengthen South Korea's defenses by moving ahead with the early deployment⁴ of the THAAD missile-defense system.

"Just in the past two weeks," said Vice President Pence, "the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in Syria and Afghanistan."

"North Korea," he said, "would do well not to test [President Trump's] resolve or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region."

The U.S. Navy this month struck a Syrian airfield⁵ with 59 Tomahawk missiles after a chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime. Several days later, the U.S. military dropped "the mother of all bombs", the largest non-nuclear device it has ever unleashed⁶ in combat, on a network of caves and tunnels used by ISIS in Afghanistan.

During a visit to the border between North and South Korea, Vice President Pence, whose father served in the 1950-53 Korean War, said the United States would stand by its "iron-clad alliance" with South Korea.

"All options are on the table to achieve the objectives and ensure the stability of the people of this country," Mr. Pence told reporters at the demilitarized zone, which separates the North from the South.

"We're going to abandon the failed policy of strategic patience," said Vice President Pence. "But we're going to redouble our efforts to bring diplomatic and economic pressure to bear on North Korea. Our hope is that we can resolve this issue peaceably."

1 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

2 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

3 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。

4 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

5 airfield   

n.飞机场

参考例句：

• The foreign guests were motored from the airfield to the hotel.用车把外宾从机场送到旅馆。
• The airfield was seized by enemy troops.机场被敌军占领。

6 unleashed   

v.把（感情、力量等）释放出来，发泄( unleash的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The government's proposals unleashed a storm of protest in the press. 政府的提案引发了新闻界的抗议浪潮。
• The full force of his rage was unleashed against me. 他把所有的怒气都发泄在我身上。 来自《简明英汉词典》