The latest detonation also tests whether the world can make addressing North Korea’s dangerous aspirations a priority by uniting around a common policy that is more than rhetorical in its condemnation. One thing we know about the North Koreans is that, unless they can use such rhetoric in their own propaganda (they got far more traction out of former US President George W. Bush’s infamous “axis of evil” remark than he ever did), they simply don’t care what is said about them.
最新的核爆测试还能检验世界各国能否团结在统一政策周围，而不仅限于嘴上谴责朝鲜危险的核武器试验。有一点我们对朝鲜了如指掌，那就是除了能在自己的政治宣传中引用国际社会的谴责之辞（他们从美国前总统乔治·W·布什臭名昭著的“邪恶轴心”说法中捞取的好处远胜于布什自己），他们根本不在意外界对于他们的评论。