President Donald Trump has made no secret of his reservations about multilateral approaches to global problems. So, it is reassuring that despite this, his administration has been able to persuade the UN Security Council to take unanimous action in the face of the gathering threat to world peace posed by North Korea. Previous US administrations exercised what became known euphemistically as “strategic patience” when it came to the hermit kingdom. At this precarious moment, there is no room for more of that.
美國總統唐納•川普(Donald Trump)毫不掩飾他對通過多邊途徑處理全球問題持保留意見。儘管如此,面對北韓給世界和平帶來的越來越大的威脅,川普政府卻能夠去說服聯合國安理會(UN Security Council)採取一致行動,這一點令人寬慰。美國前幾屆政府對待這個「隱士王國」(Hermit Kingdom)的政策被委婉地稱爲「戰略性忍耐」。在當前這種危險時刻,已經沒有餘地延續這種做法了。