10-12-06

美將要求聯合國安理會正式制裁北韓 (US to Ask UN Security Council to Formally Punish North Korea)

美國星期四將正式請求聯合國安理會就北韓所聲稱的核子試驗進行懲罰。

美國駐聯合國大使博爾頓已經在散發對平壤實施制裁的一項決議草案。制裁措施包括嚴格的武器禁運，旅行禁令和金融限制措施等。

博爾頓說，他希望安理會的表決時間不晚于星期五。不過他承認，在如何嚴厲懲罰北韓的方法上一些成員國依然有意見分歧。平壤本星期早些時候表示，將把任何新的嚴厲制裁視為宣戰。

中國希望安理會譴責北韓，不過中國外交部發言人星期四在北京拒絕說明中國是否支援對中國的這個長期盟國實施新的懲罰措施。

The United States today (Thursday) will formally ask the United Nations Security Council to punish North Korea for its claimed nuclear test.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton has been circulating a draft resolution that would impose tough new sanctions against Pyongyang. These would include a strict arms embargo, a travel ban and financial restrictions.

Bolton says he hopes for a Security Council vote by Friday, but he acknowledges that member countries still disagree on how severely to penalize the North Korean government. Pyongyang said earlier this week that it would regard any tough new sanctions as a declaration of war.

China wants the Security Council to condemn North Korea. But a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing today declined to say if his country will support new punitive measures against its longtime ally.

當局將調查小飛機在紐約機毀人亡事件 (Authorities to Probe Fatal Small Plane Crash in NYC)

一架小型飛機星期三撞上紐約市一棟高層公寓大樓一事的調查工作星期四還在繼續。

撞機事件導致紐約洋基棒球隊隊員科裏.利德爾和另外一人喪生，據說是他的飛行指導。

現年34歲的棒球投手利德爾幾個月前剛加入揚基棒球隊。他擁有一架單引擎飛機。飛機星期三從鄰近的新澤西州的一個小機場起飛後，飛越紐約港，環繞飛過自由女神像後向北飛行。

目前還不清楚，這架飛機突然左右搖擺，並直接撞上40層高的公寓大樓時，究竟是利德爾還是他的飛行指導員在駕駛飛機。

The investigation continues today (Thursday) into Wednesday's crash of a small plane into a high-rise apartment building in New York City.

The crash killed a member of the New York Yankees baseball team and one other man, said to be the baseball player's flight instructor.

Cory Lidle, a (34-year-old) pitcher who joined the Yankees just a few months ago, owned the single-engine aircraft (a Cirrus SR20). After taking off from a nearby small airport in New Jersey (Teterboro), the plane flew over New York harbor and circled the Statue of Liberty (one of the United States' best-known monuments), then headed north.

It is not clear whether Lidle or his flying instructor was at the controls when the light plane began flying erratically ( -- banking sharply from side to side -- ) then steered directly into a tall (40-story) apartment building.