“文金會”落幕，現(xiàn)在看特朗普的了
韓國首爾——在咖啡因攝入過量的韓國首都，交通高峰時段總是那么瘋狂，所以周五上午的情景格外引人注目——通勤族停下腳步，目不轉睛地注視著著巨大的三星電視屏幕，上面播放著非軍事區(qū)正在發(fā)生的情景，在那個地方，時光還停留在1953年。
Kim Jong-un, in a black Mao suit, stepped across a low concrete barrier into the South Korean territory, a first for a North Korean leader since the catastrophic and unfinished war seven decades ago. He reached out to the South’s president, Moon Jae-in, and led him back over into the North’s territory.
金正恩(Kim Jong-un)穿著黑色中山裝，跨過低矮的混凝土屏障進入韓國領土，自70年前那場迄今尚未結束的災難性戰(zhàn)爭以來，這是朝鮮領導人第一次這樣做。他向韓國總統(tǒng)文在寅(Moon Jae-in)伸出手，領著他回到朝鮮領土。
It was a reminder, if anyone here needed one, that the 34-year-old Mr. Kim has played the master choreographer in this remarkable dance step along a nuclear precipice.
這是一種提醒——如果還有人需要提醒的話——34歲的金正恩在這場核懸崖上的精彩舞蹈中扮演了主要編舞者的角色。
Mr. Kim silenced those who thought he was too young and callow to rule by executing his uncle, fatally poisoning a half brother, installing his own generals and putting North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs into overdrive.
金正恩處決了他的叔叔，毒死了他的異母哥哥，安插了自己的將軍，令朝鮮的核武器與導彈加速發(fā)展，讓那些認為他年輕稚嫩，無法統(tǒng)治國家的人閉上了嘴。
And after spending 2017 proving that his backward nation could hurl missiles across the Pacific, and could test a weapon many times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb, Mr. Kim seized on an invitation from South Korea to take part in the 2018 Winter Olympics and suddenly played the statesman. On Friday he hinted anew that his nuclear arsenal might be on the table, if the price was right.
金正恩用整個2017年證明自己統(tǒng)治的這個落后國家有能力發(fā)射飛越太平洋的導彈，并且有能力測試威力超出廣島原子彈許多倍的武器;之后他應韓國邀請，參與2018年冬季奧運會，突然扮演起政治家的角色。周五他再次暗示，如果價碼合適，他的核武庫或許也是可以談判的。
President Trump insists that his own actions are responsible, that his threats of “fire and fury” and, more important, his intensified sanctions, forced Mr. Kim to this moment. He is partly right: Mr. Trump has shown an energy in confronting North Korea that President Barack Obama never did.
特朗普總統(tǒng)堅稱是自己的行為起了作用，他的“炮火與怒火”威脅，更重要的是他加緊制裁的行動，迫使金正恩走到了這一刻。他在一定程度上是正確的：特朗普表現(xiàn)出了與朝鮮對抗的能量，這是貝拉克·奧巴馬(Barack Obama)總統(tǒng)從來不曾做過的。
But disarmament experts who watched the Korean leaders meet in the DMZ agreed that Mr. Kim had been driving the events.
但是觀看朝韓領導人在非軍事區(qū)舉行會議的裁軍專家都認為，一直在推動這些事件的人是金正恩。
Mr. Kim has learned the art of surprise as surely as his grandfather, Kim Il-sung, North Korea’s founder and the younger Mr. Kim’s role model, did. The elder Mr. Kim caught the world unawares by invading the South in June 1950.
朝鮮開國元勛金日成是金正恩的祖父，也是這位年輕人的榜樣，顯然，和金日成一樣，金正恩也學會了出奇制勝的藝術——1950年6月，金日成入侵韓國，令全世界措手不及。
The Friday encounter did everything it was supposed to do to set up the next summit meeting, between Mr. Kim and Mr. Trump. That is the moment, South Koreans say, for any nuclear deal to be struck, something that can only happen when an American president is in the room.
周五的會晤完成了它所應完成的一切任務，為金正恩和特朗普之間的下一次首腦會議做好了準備。韓國人說，現(xiàn)在到了這樣一個時刻，任何核協(xié)議都有可能達成，而這樣的協(xié)議只有在美國總統(tǒng)在場時才會發(fā)生。
The question is whether Mr. Kim is really ready to make that deal, or whether he is betting, as most experts think he is, that he can get help to normalize the North’s economy while keeping at least parts of a fearsome arsenal that he believes has kept the Kim family in power.
問題是，金正恩是否真的準備達成這筆交易，又或者他像大多數(shù)專家認為的那樣，是在下賭注，看自己是否能在令朝鮮實現(xiàn)經濟正?；耐瑫r，至少保留一部分令人生畏的武器，他認為金氏家族可以一直掌握權力正是因為這些武器。
The agreement published on Friday afternoon, as the two Korean leaders headed into a dinner that was rich in symbolism about the common traditions of the North and South, says little on the nuclear topic.
周五下午，朝韓兩國領導人出席了一場充滿兩國共同傳統(tǒng)象征意義的晚宴，并公布了會談協(xié)議，其中幾乎沒有提及核問題。
It sets a deadline of completing some kind of peace arrangement — not necessarily a treaty — by the end of this year. But it sets no schedule for denuclearization. That is a critical point, because until now the Trump administration’s position has been that the North must surrender all its weapons first, and that any talk of treaties or trade, or sanctions relief, would come only when its weapons, its uranium and plutonium and its missiles are securely out of the country.
協(xié)議設定了一個最后期限，在今年年底之前達成某種和平協(xié)議——不一定是一項條約。但它沒有設定無核化的時間表。這很關鍵，因為到目前為止，特朗普政府的立場是，朝鮮必須首先交出它的所有武器，任何關于條約、貿易或解除制裁的談判只有在朝鮮的武器、鈾和钚以及導彈安全出國后才能進行。
President Moon’s advisers insisted that the vagueness of the agreement published on Friday was a virtue, not a defect, and that it would be up to others to work out the details. But they also insist that “Chairman Kim,” as they called the young leader, is driven by different imperatives than his father and grandfather were. “They want a Trump Tower and a McDonald’s,” Moon Chung-in, a special adviser to the South Korean president, insisted in an interview with Christiane Amanpour on CNN on Friday.
文在寅總統(tǒng)的顧問堅稱，星期五公布的協(xié)議含糊不清是它的優(yōu)點，而不是缺點，而細節(jié)需要其他人來填補。但他們也堅持認為，“金主席”(他們這樣稱呼年輕的朝鮮領導人)，和他的父親與祖父有著不同的動機。“他們想要一個特朗普大廈和一家麥當勞餐廳，”韓國總統(tǒng)的特別顧問文正仁(Moon Chung-in)周五接受CNN的克里斯汀·阿曼普(Christiane Amanpour)采訪時表示。
Perhaps they do — the North’s most famous hotel, in Pyongyang, the capital, leans so dangerously that it was never opened, and North Korea is not known for its fast-food chains. But ask the people who have seen past peace initiatives whether they think this one will work out any differently, and they have serious doubts that Mr. Kim will give up his nuclear program for any price.
興許確實如此——朝鮮最著名的酒店(位于首都平壤)傾斜嚴重，以至從未開業(yè)，朝鮮也沒有著名的快餐連鎖。但問那些見證了過去的和平協(xié)議的人是否認為這一次的結果會有所不同時，他們嚴重懷疑金正恩無論如何都不會放棄核計劃。
Among the skeptics is Mr. Trump’s new secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, who made a secret visit to Pyongyang over Easter weekend to try to gauge Mr. Kim’s sincerity. Last summer, it was Mr. Pompeo, then still the C.I.A. director, who argued that the only way to deal with North Korea was to separate Mr. Kim from his weapons, a comment some interpreted as advocating regime change.
持懷疑態(tài)度的人包括特朗普新任命的國務卿克·龐皮歐(Mike Pompeo)。復活節(jié)那個周末，龐皮歐秘密訪問平壤，想要試探金正恩的誠意。去年夏天，正是時任中情局(CIA)局長的龐皮歐聲稱，對付朝鮮唯一的辦法是把金正恩和他的武器分開。這番表述被一些人解讀為主張改朝換代。
On Friday at NATO, on his first full day as secretary of state, Mr. Pompeo suggested for the first time that the North Korean leader was ready to deal. “I did get a sense that he was serious,” he told reporters. “The economic pressure that has been put in place by this global effort that President Trump has led has led him to believe that it’s in his best interest to come to the table and talk about denuclearization.”
周五是龐皮歐上任國務卿的第一天。在北約，他首次稱朝鮮領導人做好了做交易的準備。“我的確感覺他是認真的，”他對記者說。“特朗普總統(tǒng)領導的這場全球行動帶來的經濟壓力促使他相信，坐到談判桌上商討無核化問題對他是最有利的。”
Yet talking is different from denuclearizing. And talking about denuclearizing is hardly new. The North promised the same in a 1992 agreement, and many in Seoul, the South’s capital, wondered then if the nightmare of living under the constant threat of artillery barrage was about to end. In fact, the agreement reached on Friday picks up language from the 1992 accord, and has similar provisions about reuniting families separated during the Korean War and nonaggression agreements. Little of it happened.
但商討和無核化是兩回事。商討無核化問題也不是什么新鮮事。在1992年的一項協(xié)議中，朝鮮作出過同樣的承諾。當時，韓國首都首爾的很多人好奇，生活在持續(xù)的炮火攻擊威脅下的噩夢是不是就要結束了。實際上，周五達成的協(xié)議采用了1992年那份協(xié)議的表述，也有讓那些因朝鮮戰(zhàn)爭而分開的家人團圓，以及達成互不侵犯協(xié)議的類似條款。但當年的協(xié)議內容幾乎無一兌現(xiàn)。
There were two agreements with the George W. Bush administration, each described at the time as breakthroughs. Since then the North has amassed 20 to 60 nuclear weapons, up from zero when those commitments were made.
朝鮮與喬治·W·布什(George W. Bush)政府達成了兩項協(xié)議。當時，兩項協(xié)議都被稱作突破性進展。自那時以來，朝鮮已經積累了20到60枚核武器，而它作出這些承諾時這個數(shù)字是零。
No one knows those numbers better than Mr. Pompeo, who spent a lot of time with the CI.A.’s Korea Mission unit, assessing the scope and imminence of its nuclear capabilities. “There’s a lot of history here, where promises have been made, hopes have been raised and then dashed,” the new secretary of state told reporters.
沒人比龐皮歐更了解這些數(shù)字。他曾和中情局朝鮮任務中心一起花大量時間評估朝鮮核實力的范圍和緊迫性。“在這個問題上，有著漫長的作出承諾、燃起希望然后希望破滅的歷史，”這位新上任的國務卿對記者說。
Mr. Trump’s solution to not getting “played,” the phrase he so often uses about his predecessors and North Korea, is to keep what he calls a “maximum pressure campaign” on the North until denuclearization happens. The South Koreans say they agree. But the documents issued Friday hint at benefits that begin to flow to the North as they move toward a peace agreement, and a reduction of tensions.
為了不被“玩弄”——特朗普常常用這個詞來形容他的諸位前任與朝鮮的關系——特朗普的解決方案是堅持對朝鮮實行他所說的“最大壓力行動”，直到實現(xiàn)無核化。韓國表示同意。但周五發(fā)布的文件暗示，在朝著和平協(xié)議的方向發(fā)展的過程中，好處開始流向朝鮮，緊張局勢得到緩和。
China, which is largely interested in maintaining the status quo, could also loosen the restrictions on oil and goods, as long as negotiations play out. 只要談判展開，在很大程度上希望保持現(xiàn)狀的中國可能也會放松對石油和商品的限制。
All this suggests that Mr. Trump’s challenge when he meets Mr. Kim, probably in early June, is growing. He must establish the process for the actual dismantlement of weapons, the removal of stockpiled uranium and plutonium bomb fuel from the country and a verification program that will be one of the most complex in history, given the vastness of North Korea’s mountains.
這一切都表明，和金正恩會面——可能會在6月初——時，特朗普面臨的挑戰(zhàn)正在加劇。他必須制定實際拆除武器、運走朝鮮儲存的鈾和钚彈燃料并進行核查的進程。考慮到朝鮮遼闊的山川，這將是史上最復雜的核查行動之一。
In short, Mr. Trump must do better than Mr. Obama did in the Iran deal, an agreement Mr. Trump believes is so flawed it should be abandoned.
簡而言之，特朗普必須比奧巴馬在伊朗核協(xié)議問題上做得更好。特朗普認為該協(xié)議缺陷嚴重，應該被廢除。
What no one knows yet is the kind of concessions Kim is hoping to demand in return. Han Sung-joo, a former South Korean foreign minister who negotiated with the North for much of his career, says he believes he knows where this is headed.
但沒人知道金正恩希望得到什么樣的讓步作為回報。韓國前外長韓升洲(Han Sung-Joo)職業(yè)生涯中的很多時候都在和朝鮮談判。他自稱知道事情會朝什么方向發(fā)展。
“If Kim Jong Un indeed came up with the idea of the so-called peace momentum getting started, it was indeed a jackpot of an idea,” Han said this week. Kim’s goals, Han said, will be to “weaken international sanctions,” draw serious investment into the North and make the country’s nuclear status “a fait accompli.”
“如果金正恩真的想到了開啟所謂的和平進程這個主意，那也是為了這個主意能帶來的好處，”韓升洲在本周說。他表示，金正恩的目標是“減輕國際制裁”、讓大量投資進入朝鮮并讓朝鮮的核地位成為“既成事實”。
Trump, in contrast, says he will solve the North Korea problem, once and for all. After Friday’s meeting, he will now face the task of explaining how.
相比之下，特朗普稱他將徹底解決朝鮮問題。周五的會面結束后，他現(xiàn)在面臨的任務是解釋如何做到這一點。
