CNN News: 朝鮮正遭遇十年來最嚴(yán)重糧食短缺

Welcome to your midweek edition of CNN 10. I’m your host Carl Azuz. We’re traveling all over Asia today and our first story concerns a food shortage in North Korea. The countries population is just over 25 million people and about 40 percent of them, we’re talking about 10 million people could be going hungry in the months ahead if they’re not already. The United Nations says North Korea has just had its worst harvest in 10 years. There are a number of reasons why.

歡迎收看本周三的CNN 10分鐘新聞。我是主持人卡爾·阿祖茲。今天我們走遍亞洲，首先關(guān)注朝鮮的糧食短缺問題。這個國家的人口剛剛超過2500萬，其中大約40%，我們說的是在未來幾個月里可能有1000萬人挨餓。聯(lián)合國表示，朝鮮剛剛經(jīng)歷了10年來最糟糕的收成。原因有很多。

The U.N. blames drought, flooding and heat waves a combination of the three and the government of the United States blames North Korea’s leadership as well saying that if the communist country stops spending so much on its nuclear and missile programs, its people wouldn’t be as starved and neglected as they are. Is the current food shortage the beginning of a famine?

聯(lián)合國指責(zé)干旱、洪水和熱浪.美國指責(zé)朝鮮政府的領(lǐng)導(dǎo),如果這個共產(chǎn)主義國家停止其核項(xiàng)目和導(dǎo)彈項(xiàng)目上花費(fèi)過多,人民不會因?yàn)轲囸I和被忽視的。當(dāng)前的糧食短缺是饑荒的開始嗎?

The U.N. isn’t calling it at this point. North Korea did suffer a widespread famine in the mid 1990s’ and it was a time when anywhere from several 100 thousand to several million people died. This year experts say there are a number of troubling signs concerning food in North Korea but there are aid agencies and countries willing to help.

聯(lián)合國目前還沒有做出回應(yīng)。朝鮮在上世紀(jì)90年代中期確實(shí)經(jīng)歷了一場大范圍的饑荒，當(dāng)時死亡人數(shù)從10萬到幾百萬不等。專家表示，今年朝鮮出現(xiàn)了一些令人擔(dān)憂的食品問題，但有援助機(jī)構(gòu)和國家愿意提供幫助。