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韓国新大統領就任
2月25日、韓国の盧武鉉大統領の就任式が行なわれた。しかし、その前日に、北朝鮮が日本海に向け対艦ミサイルを発射し、韓国新政権は波乱のスタートを切った。
S. Korea's new leader inaugurated as Pyongyang test-fires missile
South Korea's new president, Roh Moo Hyun, warned North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons drive in his inauguration speech in Seoul on Feb. 25 as Pyongyang marked the occasion by test-firing a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan.
"The suspicion that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons poses a grave threat to world peace," said the 56-year-old president, hours after Pyongyang's missile launch put South Korea's armed forces on alert and alarmed neighboring Japan.
The test was viewed as another calculated provocation from Pyongyang. It was the latest in a string of incidents involving North Korea that have raised tension in the 4-month-old crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
"It is up to Pyongyang whether to go ahead and obtain nuclear weapons or to get guarantees for the security of its regime and international economic support," said Roh, adding that his top priority was to resolve the crisis peacefully.
Roh said that North Korea, a financially bankrupt Stalinist state dubbed an "outlaw" nation and part of an "axis of evil" by U.S. President George W. Bush, should be treated as a partner, not as a criminal.
The following day, South Korea's opposition-dominated Parliament approved Roh's candidate for prime minister, former Seoul mayor and veteran bureaucrat Goh Kun. Goh's anticorruption record at city hall earned him the nickname "Mr. Clean."
Shukan ST: March 7, 2003
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- inaugurated
- 就任する
- test-fires
- 発射実験する
- Roh Moo Hyun
- 盧武鉉
- abandon
- 放棄する
- nuclear weapons drive
- 核兵器開発
- Pyongyang
- 北朝鮮政府
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- poses a grave threat
- 重大な脅威となっている
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- 発射
- put 〜 on alert
- 〜に厳戒態勢を取らせた
- calculated provocation
- 計算づくの挑発
- a string of 〜
- 一連の〜
- Korean Peninsula
- 朝鮮半島
- guarantees
- 約束
- security of its regime
- 体制の安全
- top priority
- 最優先事項
- financially bankrupt Stalinist state
- 財政的に破たんしたスターリン主義国
- dubbed 〜
- 〜と呼ばれる
- axis of evil
- 悪の枢軸
- opposition-dominated Parliament
- 野党優勢の国会
- candidate
- 候補者
- mayor
- 市長
- bureaucrat
- 官僚
- Goh Kun
- 高建
- anticorruption
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- city hall
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