imbroglio

The Japan Times ９月１４日の記事の抜粋です。
America should exit the Korean imbroglio
A U.S. withdrawal from South Korea would undercut Pyongyang's justification for its massive military spending.
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The United States should try a different approach. Washington should withdraw from the Korean vortex. Then North Korea would be primarily a problem for its neighbors, who have the most at stake.
タイトルに出てきた単語 "imbroglio" は以前(4/18/2013)に取り上げていますが、復習で辞書を見直します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: An extremely confused, complicated, or embarrassing situation: the Watergate imbroglio
・Vocabulary.com: An imbroglio is a complicated or confusing personal situation. To rephrase the J. Geils band song, "Love Stinks," if you love her and she loves him and he loves somebody else, you've got quite an imbroglio.
Although an imbroglio is a tangled situation or a messy complicated misunderstanding, its history is just the opposite, clear as a bell. Imbroglio is just a borrowed word from Italian meaning "entanglement." If something embarrassing happens at a public event, such as a mishap during the musical performances at the Super Bowl, it is sometimes called an imbroglio.
以前この単語を取り上げたのも北朝鮮に関する記事からでした。 "imbroglio" が出てきたら直ぐに北朝鮮を連想することにします。