F2F Class Notes 26th April (Celeste) [R]

Demo StudentCarol Ni

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USA ends ‘patience’ with North Korea

The Vice President of the USA, Mike Pence, said on Monday that US-North Korea relations have changed. Mr Pence said the “era of strategic patience is over”. Pence said that the USA has shown great patience with North Korea for many years. It has tried talking to North Korea to get it to end its nuclear weapons testing. However, new U.S. President Donald Trump promised he would not allow North Korea to develop nuclear weapons. Pence said: “Since 1992, the United States and our allies have stood together for a denuclearized Korean Peninsula. We hope to achieve this objective through peaceable means. But all options are on the table.” One of these options is to attack North Korea’s missile bases.

Mr Pence’s warning to North Korea to not test the USA came the day after North Korea tested another missile. Pence said North Korea’s missile testing is a danger to the USA. He said North Korea would soon have missiles that can reach America. North Korea’s Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-ryol told the BBC that his country would continue to test missiles. He said: “We’ll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis.” He added that an “all-out war” would happen if the US took military action against North Korea. North Korea’s ambassador to the UN, Kim In-ryong, said the US was “disturbing global peace and stability”. He said the USA was using “gangster-like logic” in its foreign policy.

 

Vocabulary

era n. – period of time /a period of time marked by distinctive character, events
eg. In the new era, we will see new technology.
eg. In my era, we only began to study English when we were over 10 years old.

strategy/ies n. – plan/process/next moves / a plan, method, or series of maneuvers or stratagems for obtaining a specific goal or result

peninsula/s n. – piece of land mostly surrounded by water, but still connected to the main land

ally/allies n. – sb or sth that is on the same side with you, not against, not an enemy
eg. The USA, Canada, and the UK are allies.

all-out sth – to give or do everything and anything you can / nothing left out or behind

eg. For Chinese New Year, Chinese families have an all-out celebration where they cook many dishes, buy many bottles of alcohol, they light all the fireworks they have to have an all-out celebration.

ambassador/s n. – person who represents their country in another country

stable and stability

gangster/s – people who are criminals who do illegal activities