The death of Kim Jong-il was always likely to be an unusually dangerous moment for what Kevin Rudd, the Australian foreign minister, described yesterday as “the single largest militarily armed zone in the world”. But it has also happened at a moment when the US and China are perilously far apart on how to deal with the isolated Stalinist nation.
對於「世界上最大的單個軍事武裝區」（澳洲外長陸克文(Kevin Rudd)昨天如此稱呼北韓）而言，金正日(Kim Jong-il)之死，無論何時都可能代表一個異乎尋常的危險時刻。不過，金正日去世之時，也正是美國和中國就如何應對這個與世隔絕、實行史達林式統治的國家出現危險的巨大分歧之時。
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