10-30-06

美将领称北韩会再次核试 (US General Expects North Korea to Conduct Second Nuclear Test)

美国驻韩国军队指挥官说，他预计北韩会在“将来某个时候”进行第二次核试验。贝尔将军星期一在首尔说，平壤很可能会再次试爆核装置，继续进行发展“挑衅性武器”的计划。

北韩在10月9日进行了一次地下核试验。平壤表示，北韩需要拥有核武器来加强对美国威胁的防御能力。贝尔将军说，北韩的核试验没有改变朝鲜半岛的力量平衡，如果北韩攻击韩国，美国和韩国的军事力量将能很快击败北韩的侵略。不过他说，联军不会向北韩发动先发制人的攻击。

The commander of U.S. forces in South Korea says he expects North Korea to conduct a second nuclear test "sometime in the future." General Burwell Bell said in Seoul Monday that Pyongyang likely will detonate another nuclear device as part of its program to develop what he called "provocative weapons."

North Korea set off an underground nuclear device October ninth. Pyongyang says it needs nuclear weapons to bolster its defenses against U.S. threats. General Bell says North Korea's nuclear test did not change the balance of power on the Korean peninsula, and that if North Korea attacks the South, U.S. and South Korean forces would quickly defeat the aggression. But he said the the allied forces would not conduct a pre-emptive strike against North Korea.

巴军打死八十激进分子嫌疑人 (Pakistani Troops Kill 80 Suspected Militants)

巴基斯坦军方说，它的攻击直升机在与阿富汗交界的地方摧毁了一个怀疑是恐怖分子训练基地的设施，打死了80名激进分子嫌疑人。巴基斯坦军方首席发言人说，星期一早上在巴蕉尔部落地区的袭击目标是一所激进分子受训的伊斯兰学校。这所伊斯兰学校是一名被巴基斯坦通缉的穆斯林神职人员经营的。这名穆斯林神职人员因与恐怖活动有关联和庇护基地恐怖分子在巴基斯坦受到通缉。军方发言人否认有关空袭炸死了无辜平民的说法。

巴基斯坦这一边境地区靠近一座今年早些时候被驻阿富汗美军袭击过的村庄。美军那次袭击行动的目的是消灭基地组织的二号人物，不过他当时并没有在村子里。巴基斯坦军队星期一的袭击行动之前，这个地区在星期六时曾经举行过集会，参加集会的数千名激进分子呼喊反美口号。

Pakistan's military says its helicopter gunships have destroyed a suspected terrorist training facility near the border with Afghanistan, killing up to 80 militants. The chief military spokesman says Monday's early-morning raid in the Bajaur tribal region targeted an Islamic school where militants were being trained. The Islamic school was operated by a Muslim cleric wanted in Pakistan for terrorist activities and for providing refuge to al-Qaida militants. The spokesman dismissed claims that the air strike killed innocent civilians.

The same Pakistani border area is close to a village attacked earlier this year by U.S. forces based in Afghanistan. That airstrike was aimed at killing al-Qaida's second-in-command, but he was not present at the time. Monday's assault by Pakistani forces follows a rally in the same area on Saturday, by thousands of militants shouting anti-American slogans.