PBS高端访谈:韩国方面对朝鲜发射导弹的最新反应

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　　But President Trump¹'s recent statements targeting South Korea have led to growing concerns there. William Brangham reports.

　　South Korean warships² conducted live-fire drills off the Korean Peninsula today, the latest show of military force to try and deter³ North Korea.

　　The North answered with more defiance⁴. Its envoy⁵ called its weekend nuclear test a -- quote -- "gift package to the U.S." from his country,

　　which is known officially as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK.

　　The U.S. will receive more gift packages from my country as long as it relies on reckless provocations⁶ and futile⁷ attempts to put pressure on the DPRK. Pressure or sanctions will never work on my country.

　　The DPRK will never under any circumstance put its nuclear deterrence⁸ on the negotiating table.

　　Russian President Vladimir Putin, at a conference in China, also warned against pushing the North Koreans too hard.

　　He said military action could set off a global catastrophe⁹, and that new sanctions won't help either.

　　The use of all types of sanctions in this particular case is useless and inefficient¹⁰.

　　As I have told one of my colleagues yesterday, they will rather eat grass than abandon this program if they do not feel safe.

　　Later, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow will consider a U.S. resolution in the U.N. Security Council, provided it focuses on a diplomatic solution.

　　Meanwhile, President Trump is also putting pressure on South Korea.

　　He's again threatened to pull out of a five-year-old trade deal with the south, something that a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers today urged against.

　　And over the weekend, the president also pushed them to get tougher, tweeting: "South Korea is finding that their talk of appeasement¹¹ with North Korea will not work."

　　But that message may be driving a wedge between the two allies.

　　South Koreans were very preoccupied¹² by the fact that it took 34 hours for President Moon Jae-in and President Donald Trump to even have a phone conversation after that nuclear test.

　　Jean Lee ran the Associated Press's bureau in North Korea and is now a fellow at the Wilson Center in Seoul, South Korea.

　　South Koreans were incredibly offended by that.

　　To people here, the comments on the approach on that president is taking seem incredibly outdated¹³ and offensive.

　　So, I think that that is some of the reaction that I'm getting from younger South Koreans here in Seoul.

　　At the White House, though, officials today defended the get-tough approach.

　　Now is not the time for us to spend a lot of time focused on talking with North Korea,

　　but putting all measures of pressure that we can, and we're going to continue through that process.

　　Meanwhile, there's talk in South Korea of building up its own conventional arsenal¹⁴ and perhaps even acquiring its own nuclear weapons.

　　In a new tweet today, President Trump confirmed he's letting South Korea and Japan buy sophisticated U.S. weapons.

　　For the PBS NewsHour, I'm William Brangham. undefined

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