With North Korea’s latest nuclear test coming so quickly after its rocket launch in December, the United Nations has good reason to ask China, a permanent Security Council member, to take the diplomatic lead. It is simply not enough for China to call, as its official statement does, for the resumption of the Six-Party Talks with South Korea, China, the US, Japan, and Russia.
鉴于朝鲜在去年12月发射火箭后如此短的时间内又再度进行核试验，联合国有充分的理由要求中国这个常任理事国带头发起外交行动。仅仅呼吁朝鲜重启六方会谈（与韩国、中国、美国、日本和俄罗斯）——正如中方的官方声明那样——是不够的。由于朝鲜屡次推翻过去的协议，六方会谈框架早已毫无信誉可言了。