10-12-06

美将要求联合国安理会正式制裁北韩 (US to Ask UN Security Council to Formally Punish North Korea)

美国星期四将正式请求联合国安理会就北韩所声称的核试验进行惩罚。

美国驻联合国大使博尔顿已经在散发对平壤实施制裁的一项决议草案。制裁措施包括严格的武器禁运，旅行禁令和金融限制措施等。

博尔顿说，他希望安理会的表决时间不晚于星期五。不过他承认，在如何严厉惩罚北韩的方法上一些成员国依然有意见分歧。平壤本星期早些时候表示，将把任何新的严厉制裁视为宣战。

中国希望安理会谴责北韩，不过中国外交部发言人星期四在北京拒绝说明中国是否支持对中国的这个长期盟国实施新的惩罚措施。

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.

当局将调查小飞机在纽约机毁人亡事件 (Authorities to Probe Fatal Small Plane Crash in NYC)

一架小型飞机星期三撞上纽约市一栋高层公寓大楼一事的调查工作星期四还在继续。

撞机事件导致纽约洋基棒球队队员科里.利德尔和另外一人丧生，据说是他的飞行指导。

现年34岁的棒球投手利德尔几个月前刚加入扬基棒球队。他拥有一架单引擎飞机。飞机星期三从邻近的新泽西州的一个小机场起飞后，飞越纽约港，环绕飞过自由女神像后向北飞行。

目前还不清楚，这架飞机突然左右摇摆，并直接撞上40层高的公寓大楼时，究竟是利德尔还是他的飞行指导员在驾驶飞机。

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.