元米陸軍大尉 (Former Army Captain) にして、現在、カリフォルニア州モントレーの米国防総省外国語学校日本語学部 (Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center Japanese Branch) の部長を務める加藤喬(Takashi Kato)氏のメールマガジン『元米陸軍大尉が教える 軍隊式英会話術』の映像版「英語ブートキャンプ」である。撮影:Yasuhiko Kuroda氏
うわ、この音楽番組はなんだろ! 全部英語だー、すごいぞ! あれ、アナウンスも英語じゃん! 隣で聞いていた母親が「あらー、それ進駐軍放送だねえ。まだやってるんだ。なつかしいねえ」なんて言うではありませんか。これがFEN、Far East Nework(今はAFN, American Forces Network)、在日米軍ラジオ放送との出会いでした。
それ以来、学校から帰るとずっとFEN。インターネットはおろか、二カ国語放送もなかった時代です。FENは生の英語が聞ける唯一のアメリカ文化流入元でした。FENを知ってから、平日は夕食を食べ終わってラジオをつけると、Wolfman Jack Show、土曜日は、FM東京の歌謡ベストテンが終わる午後2時にFENに切り換え、American Top 40を聞く、というスケジュールになりました。ラジオ関東で湯川れいこさんがやっていたのは、夜遅くてほとんど聞けなかった、というもありましたが、FENだと曲は途中で切らずに全部流してくれるし、途中のジングルもかっこいい。Camp Zamaのイベントのお知らせは、生の英語の言い回しが学べるし、逆に日本の季節感も思い起こさせてくれます。ニュースは何度も聞いているうちに最後のシメのアナウンスも覚えてしまい、学校で友達とまねっこし合うこともしばしばでした。友達は、Bay City Rollersの大ファンで、FENだと何度もかかるから、と、やはり毎日聞いていたようです。
FEN news is compiled by the American networks and wire services. For further details, read the Pacific and Stripes. I’m Navy Journalist Carol Tozaki in Tokyo. This is the Far East Network.
This program is about revisiting Japan Spirit: the spiritual backbone of Japan. As the world globalizes, Japanese people are losing spiritual peace and foundation as a nation real fast. It is high time to renew awareness of Japan’s strengths and her special roles so she can make a positive difference in world issues. We hope this exploration will add insights not only to Japanese but international viewers as well.
The host is Takashi Kawatani.
TAPPER: Let's turn to the summit on Wednesday with North Korea.
Vice President Pence just said a few weeks ago -- quote -- "We still await concrete steps by North Korea to dismantle the nuclear weapons."
Researchers at Stanford University, as you know, estimate that North Korea added about seven nuclear weapons last year.
What does North Korea need to do at this summit, what do they need to pledge to do for you to consider it a success?
POMPEO: You have to go back to where we entered this in the Trump administration to think about the path forward.
We have always known this would take time and it would be a step forward, and slower than the world has demanded, right? This is a U.N. Security Council resolution that we're attempting to achieve by getting North Korea fully denuclearized. We started when the Obama administration had a policy, which was
essentially test, pray and cower, right? Let them test missiles, let them test nuclear weapons, pray they stop, and cower when the North Koreans made a threat.
POMPEO: Not remotely what this administration has done. And they didn't build out a coalition, an enormous global coalition we built out through the United Nations, to put that pressure in place to allow us to begin to have what have been real negotiations over the past now six or seven months.
I'm hopeful that, when President Trump and Chairman Kim get together, they will make a big step towards realizing what Chairman Kim promised. He promised he would denuclearize. We hope he will make a big step towards that in the week ahead.
TAPPER: So, what would a big step be? What's the -- what's the kind of pledge that they need to do?
I mean, last summit, it was nice, and the remains of U.S. service members were brought back to United States, but there wasn't any concrete step in terms of denuclearization.
POMPEO: I concur.
Look, we have got work to do on the denuclearization pillar. We have got remains back. We have had testing stopped. Those are all good things. Tension along the border is reduced, if you ask the military leaders, frankly, on both sides, from South and Korea North Korea. Tensions are reduced up.
There are many things he could do to demonstrate his commitment to denuclearization. Our negotiating team was on the ground the last three days. And they will be on the ground again today. I will be there tomorrow to continue these discussions.
There are -- I don't want to get into the details of what's being proposed, what the offers and counteroffers may be. But a real step, a demonstrable, verifiable step is something that I know President Trump is very focused on achieving.
TAPPER: So tensions in the peninsula have alleviated, but your successor, CIA Director Gina Haspel, told Congress -- Congress last month that North Korea is -- quote -- "committed to developing a long- range nuclear armed missile that would pose a direct threat to the United States."
And President Trump after the last summit said -- he tweeted -- quote -- "There is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea."
Does he still believe there's no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea, even though Gina Haspel, the CIA director, says North Korea is committed to creating this missile to hit the United States?
POMPEO: Having been the CIA director not too terribly long ago...
POMPEO: ... I'm very familiar with the fact pattern.
We do know the history. We know the history of the North Koreans making promises and making commitments, lying, taking American money, when President Clinton said,we have got this resolved back in 1994.
This administration is not going to do that. We -- we have charted a different path. Frankly, we have been criticized for taking that path, where we work, we negotiate, and then the two people who can actually effectuate the denuclearization of North Korea and a brighter future for the North Korean people will gather for a second time.
We have economic sanctions in place. We know the standard for relieving those sanctions. And I'm very hopeful that we will make a substantial step towards achieving the full denuclearization in a verifiable way in North Korea.
The South Koreans, the Japanese have been great partners in this, and we're very hopeful we can get a good outcome.
TAPPER: Do you -- do you think North Korea remains a nuclear threat?
POMPEO: Yes.
TAPPER: But the president said he doesn't.
POMPEO: That's not what he said.
I mean, I know -- I know precisely...
TAPPER: He tweeted: "There's no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea."
POMPEO: Right. What -- what he said is that the -- what he said was that the efforts that had been made in Singapore, this commitment that Chairman Kim, may have substantially taken down the risk to the American people.
It's the mission of the secretary of state and the president of the United States to keep the American people secure. We're aiming to achieve that.
TAPPER: OK. I mean, that's just a direct quote, but I want to move on. Just a few days ago, you said sanctions against North Korea won't be lifted until -- quote -- "We're confident that we have substantially reduced that risk," the risk of a nuclear attack.
But that standard, a substantial reduction of risk, it seems different from what you said just last June. Take -- take a listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, June 13, 2018)
POMPEO: We're going to get complete denuclearization, and only then will there be relief from the sanctions.