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Hello? This is BBC News. Welcome. I’m Deborah McKenzie. The United States has warned North Korea not to go ahead with the test launch of a long-range ballistics missile 장거리 탄도미사일 that’s capable of hitting US territory. The American Secretary of State 국무장관, Condoleeza Rice, said a test launch would be regarded as a provocative 도발적인 act. Japan and Australia have expressed similar concern.

 

The North Koreans haven’t tested a missile since 1998. If it goes ahead this time, experts say, the missile could reach as far as Alaska. Our Washington correspondent Matt Frey has the details.

 

Today, the regime 정권 of Kim Jong Il is about to test another missile. The difference? This one could potentially reach the west coast of America. And today, North Korea may have enriched 농축하다 enough plutonium for as many as 10 nuclear warheads 핵탄두. All rather alarming from a country which fears the United States and distrusts the world. “We will obviously consult on next steps. But I can assure everyone that it would be taken with utmost 극도의 seriousness.”

 

It all seemed so different in 2000. Then another Madam Secretary actually went to North Korea to do business with Kim Jong Il. Madam Albright danced with school children and even talked about a possible visit by President Clinton. It was all too cozy 화기애애한 for the next administration 행정부 who put North Korea in the axis of evil 악의 축, but became preoccupied with ~에 여념이 없는 Iraq and Iran.

 

Today, we spoke to the official who organized the 2000 trip. She thinks that North Korea is now desperately pleading for 간청하다 attention. “North Korea’s saying, excuse me a moment. We’re the folks that have the nuclear weapons. We may even have the means to deliver those nuclear weapons and you’re more serious about your negotiations with Iran, who doesn’t even have a nuclear enrichment capability yet, is just trying to get one. And so this is a little bit of, ‘hey, remember me over here. I’m the guys you really ought to be worried about.’

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