专家估计朝鲜去核进程要花200亿美元

The world will be watching when the leaders of the United States and North Korea meet in Singapore on June 12. People are wondering whether U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can reach a nuclear agreement.

美国和朝鲜领导人将于6月12日在新加坡会面，全世界都将拭目以待。人们想知道美国总统唐纳德.特朗普和朝鲜领导人金正恩能否达成核协议。

Some experts have attempted to estimate the amount of time and money needed to take apart North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. They estimate that the disarmament process could last up to 10 years and cost $20 billion.

一些专家曾试图估计将朝鲜的核武器计划拆散所需的时间和资金。他们估计朝鲜废核可能需要10年完成，总费用为200亿美元。

Trump has said he expects a “very positive result” from the Singapore summit. He said that the talks represent the beginning of a process that will take time.

特朗普表示，他预计新加坡峰会将产生“非常积极的结果”。他说，会谈代表着一个需要时间的进程的开始。

Arms experts are trying to imagine what that process will look like.

武器专家正试图想象这个过程会是什么样子。

Daryl Kimball is the head of the Arms Control Association in Washington. He said that much needs to be done by all the nations involved.

Daryl Kimball是华盛顿军控协会的负责人。他说，所有相关国家都需要做很多事情。

“It is going to take sustained energy on the part of the United States, South Korea, Japan, China and North Korea. It’s going to be a multiyear-long process,” he said.

“美国、韩国、日本、中国和朝鲜要付出长时间的努力，需要很多年，”他说。

United Nations resolutions designed to punish the North for its nuclear activities remain in effect. Those sanctions have severely limited much of North Korea’s economic activity.

联合国旨在惩罚朝鲜核活动的决议仍然有效。这些制裁严重限制了朝鲜的大部分经济活动。

However, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said this week that sanctions would only be eased after North Korea takes “verifiable and irreversible steps to denuclearization.”

不过，美国国防部长马蒂斯本周说，只有在朝鲜采取“可核查的、不可逆转的去核化步骤”之后，制裁才会放松。

The North’s government has suggested that it supports the idea of making concessions over time, with each side giving up something in answer to the other’s actions.

朝鲜政府表示它希望随着时间的推移双方逐渐做出让步，双方逐渐放弃一些东西来回应对方的行动。

But the North has opposed moving quickly to disarm before any concessions are offered.

但朝鲜反对在做出任何让步之前迅速解除武装。