白俄抨击在波捷部署美导弹防御体系计划

白俄抨击在波捷部署美导弹防御体系计划 (Belarus Criticizes Planned US Anti-Missile Sites in Poland, Czech Republic)

白俄罗斯空防军司令阿扎里耶诺科警告说，美国在波兰和捷克共和国部署导弹防御体系，将加强该地区的军事紧张局势。阿扎里耶诺科星期二在明斯克说，白俄罗斯没有美国导弹防御系统设计摧毁的武器类型。

波兰位于白俄罗斯西部，捷克共和国位于更远的白俄罗斯西南方向。俄罗斯高级军事指挥官索洛夫佐夫将军星期一警告说，俄罗斯有能力打击到捷克共和国和波兰计划建设导弹防御体系的地点。索洛夫佐夫将军说，如果俄罗斯退出和美国签订的武器条约，完全有能力重新开始制造中程和短程导弹。

Belarus' Air Force Chief Igor Azaryonok is warning that the deployment of U.S. missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic will increase military tensions in the region. Igor Azaryonok said Tuesday in Minsk that his country does not have the types of weapons the U.S. missile defense systems are designed to destroy.

Poland lies along Belarus' western border, while the Czech Republic lies further to the southwest. On Monday, a senior Russian military commander warned that Moscow is capable of targeting the proposed missile defense sites in the Czech Republic and Poland. General Nikolai Solovtsov said Russia would be able to start building intermediate and short-range missiles if the Kremlin drops out of an arms treaty with the United States.

北韩麻疹疫情导致四人死亡 (Measles Epidemic Kills Four in North Korea)

国际红十字会与红新月会联合会说， 北韩出现的麻疹疫情已经导致至少4人死亡，3千人患病。该组织说，当地的卫生机构正在为大约1千名病患进行治疗，同时在大规模接种防疫疫苗。该组织表示，北韩向国际救援机构要求获得5千剂疫苗。

自去年11月以来，麻疹扩散到了北韩的30个县，但是地方政府直到上个星期在世界卫生组织协助下进行测试后才证实了疫情。国际红十字会与红新月会联合会说，北韩以为这种疾病从1992年就已经根除，从而导致诊断被延迟。当地的卫生人员起初把麻疹误认为是“风疹”。

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says a measles epidemic in North Korea has killed at least four people and sickened three-thousand others. The aid group says local health facilities are treating about one-thousand patients and a mass vaccination campaign is under way. It says North Korea has requested five-thousand doses of vaccine from international aid agencies.

Measles has spread to 30 North Korea counties since November, but local authorities did not confirm the outbreak until last week with the help of World Health Organization testing kits. The federation says the diagnosis was delayed because measles was thought to have been eradicated from the country in 1992 and local health officials initially misidentified the disease as rubella.