It should also be said that Europeans have never been overly impressed with America’s hardline approach toward that other charter member of the axis of evil, North Korea, and its nuclear ambitions. Refusing to negotiate with the North Korean regime, and imposing the most stringent sanctions on it, has not stopped it from either acquiring nuclear weapons or accelerating its development of both nuclear and missile technologies.
还应该指出，欧洲从未过度沉迷于美国针对邪恶轴心的另一个关键成员——朝鲜及其核野心的强硬方针。拒绝与朝鲜政权谈判并对其实施最严厉制裁并没有阻止朝鲜获得核武器，也没有阻止它加速核技术和弹道技术的发展。