2007년 국제정세 전망

This is Barry Petersen. They are so young and so bright and yet there is something ominous 불길한 about another generation of North Koreans being shaped and molded <인물, 성격 따위를> 형성하다 and taught that someday, they may fight a war with the United States. And that is why North Korea’s nuclear weapons program will hang 뒤덮다, <연기 따위가> 자욱이 끼다 like a thunder cloud over Asia in 2007. North Korea’s Kim Jong Il believes time is on his side.

 

Japan remembers being the only country attacked by nuclear bombs. And yet, under Japan’s new Prime Minister 총리, there is talk of building nuclear weapons. And changing the military from self-defense only to a force allowed to strike first if it sees a threat. But for that, there is a big hurdle 장애물.

 

Japan must first change its pacifist constitution 평화헌법 imposed <의무 등을> 지우다, 과하다 by America at the end of World War II. So the debate will be framed as the need to discard 버리다 a 60-year-old document that is no longer relevant to 관련된 these times.

 

By these times, what Japan really means is China. China’s military is still better at putting on shows than fighting a modern computer-driven war. But as China gets rich, it’s spending to become the next superpower. But this is what most of the shouting will be about in 2007: shopping. The Chinese in Sam’s Club buy goods made mostly in China, pretty much like American shoppers. An incoming democratic congress may want trade restrictions 제한, 제약 helping to bring those jobs back to America.

 

While in China, a higher standard of living means workers are wining higher wages. So manufacturers are leaving for cheaper labor in places like Vietnam. Cheap labor and a global economy helped China get rich leaving other countries with closed factories and unemployed workers. In 2007 and beyond, the global economy may give China a big dose of the same bitter medicine.

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