How do you impose sanctions on a country that has nothing? Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, is proposing to do just that. She says the US is preparing carefully targeted measures against impoverished North Korea. Washington is right to pursue this line. It has little other option. China, the nation with a modicum of sway over Pyongyang, has refused to condemn Kim Jong-il's regime for its March attack on a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors. That despite the fact that an international inquiry found little doubt that Pyongyang ordered it.
你怎么制裁一個一無所有的國家?美國國務卿希拉里?克林頓(Hillary Clinton)正提議這么做。她表示,美國正精心準備針對貧窮朝鮮的制裁措施。華盛頓方面選擇這條方針是正確的。它幾乎沒有其它選擇。對平壤方面擁有少量影響力的中國,拒絕譴責金正日政權在3月份對一艘韓國軍艦發動襲擊,導致46名水兵喪生,盡管一項國際調查發現,無疑是平壤方面下令進行的襲擊。