North Korea has told foreign diplomatic missions in Pyongyang to consider evacuating their employees as tensions increase over the country’s nuclear weapons programme. Earlier there were reports from South Korea that the North had loaded two medium-range missiles onto mobile launchers. In Washington, the White House Spokesman Jay Carney said they were monitoring situation closely.
朝鲜告诉平壤外交使团考虑撤出员工,鉴于目前该过在核武器项目上紧张加剧的局势。早些时候,来自韩国的报道称朝鲜已经将两枚中程导弹安装在自行式发射装置上了。在华盛顿,白宫发言人杰伊·卡尼说正在密切关注形势。
“We have seen them launch missiles in the past and the United Nations Security Council has repeatedly condemned them as violations of the North’s obligations under numerous Security Council resolutions, and it would fit their current pattern of bellicose, unhelpful and unconstructive rhetoric actions. We urge them to stop with the provocations and to focus instead on meeting their international obligations and feeding their own people.”
“我们过去看到过他们发射导弹,联合国安理会对朝鲜违反了安理会决议规定的行为已多次谴责,这很符合他们目前好斗、无助又非建设性的花哨动作。我们敦促他们停止挑衅,履行国际规定,关注本国民生。”