If the US and China are to avoid being steered by North Korea onto a collision course, they probably have four or five years to pursue a joint strategy – a timetable established by the point at which North Korea could have the technology to load miniaturized nuclear warheads atop long-range missiles.
如果美国和中国欲避免被朝鲜引诱而发生碰撞，它们或许有四到五年时间追求联合战略——即朝鲜获得制造小型远程导弹核弹头技术所需要的时间。