译文精选:在中国,金正日考察他数十年来拒绝的改革
北朝鲜的领导人本周走遍中国观察他数十年来非常抵制的经济改革。在黑色奥迪轿车车队的护卫下,金正日乘坐装甲列车参观了汽车厂,一个太阳能电池板工厂和一个折扣商店,在那里,据说他询问烹调油,但没有买任何东西。 Kim’s fling with Chinese commercialism — capped by a sit-down Wednesday in Beijing with Chinese President Hu Jintao — fostered the latest hopeful talk that North Korea will open the world’s most controlled economy. For outside analysts, though, the trip revealed the odd stagecraft North Korea must perform as it bluffs interest in reform and then converts China’s approval into the aid and diplomatic support Kim needs to keep his country intact. 金正日扑向中国的商业化—— 通过周三在北京与中国国家主席胡锦涛坐谈——培育了最新的希望。谈话说,北韩希望将开放世界管制最严重的经济。外界分析家认为,旅行透露出金正日对改革表示兴趣,这不过是在表演。是想让中国进行援助和外交支持,金需要国家的稳定。 “ To get these things [Kim] may have to mouth platitudes about reform, privately, or maybe even publicly,” Marcus Noland, a Washington-based North Korea economics expert, said in an e-mail. “But I am quite skeptical of either his true interest or even his capacity to implement.” “要获得这些东西, [ 金 ] 可能是装腔作势地发出改革的陈词滥调,私下里或者甚至是公开地,”华盛顿的北韩经济专家马库斯诺兰在一封邮件中说。 “但我怀疑他是不是真的感兴趣,甚至怀疑他有没有这个能力来执行。” Having promised his 25 million people that North Korea will transform by 2012 into a “strong and prosperous” nation, Kim has turned to China, Pyongyang’s most important trade partner and benefactor
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