This time, I would like to share an article that contains some direct sentences, and change it into indirect.
Hope this could help you guys to understand about direct and indirect in a brief way..
Trump: US would destroy North Korea if forced to defend itself
19 September 2017
US President Donald Trump has told the UN General Assembly that
America would destroy North Korea if forced to defend itself or its allies.
In his debut speech, he mocked North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, saying: "Rocket man is on a
suicide mission."
North Korea has tested nuclear bombs and missiles in defiance of
the UN.
Just before Mr Trump spoke, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres
had urged statesmanship, saying: "We must not sleepwalk our way into
war."
The American leader also attacked Iran, saying it was a
"corrupt dictatorship" intent on destabilising the Middle East.
He called on the government in Tehran to cease supporting
terrorism and again criticised the Obama-era international agreement over
Iran's nuclear programme, which he called an embarrassment.
In his own debut speech, French President Emmanuel Macron strongly
defended the Paris climate accord, signed in the same room in New York two
years ago and rejected in June by Mr Trump, to widespread international dismay.
The General Assembly, which continues until Monday, is an annual
event, bringing together leaders of the UN's 193 member states.
Key messages from Trump's speech
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In other parts of Mr Trump's speech he:
·
said the US could
"no longer be taken advantage of or enter one-sided deals"
·
said the crisis in
Venezuela, which is led by a leftwing government hostile to the US, was "unacceptable"
and America could not "stand by and watch"
·
denounced socialism as an
ideology, saying it had only brought "anguish and devastation and
failure"
·
condemned
"uncontrolled migration" but insisted America was a
"compassionate nation" which had spent billions of dollars on helping
refugees return to their home countries
'No choice but to totally destroy'
Washington has repeatedly warned North Korea over its weapons
tests, which violate UN Security Council resolutions.
The crisis worsened last month when the North announced plans to
test missiles around the US Pacific territory of Guam.
"If [the US] is forced to defend itself or its
allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," Mr
Trump said.
President Trump's threat to "totally destroy" North
Korea is implausible, according to Stewart Patrick, a senior fellow at the
Council on Foreign Relations, a New York think tank.
"I think the folks in the Pentagon when they
look at military options are just aghast at the potential loss of life that
could occur with at a minimum hundreds of thousands of South Koreans killed in
Seoul," he told the BBC.
Can the world live with a nuclear North Korea?
Trump's contradictions
By Jonathan Marcus, BBC News
President Trump's speech was an eloquent exposition of his
"America First" doctrine but at the same time contained some fulsome
(and perhaps unexpected) praise for the United Nations as a body that can bring
together sovereign states to tackle the world's problems.
In contrast to the focus on globalisation that has driven so much
of foreign policy discussion since the 1990s, Mr Trump saw national sovereignty
as the main pillar of the international system. There was a nod to the old axis
of evil theme.
He opposed "the righteous many" to "the wicked few",
with his rogues' gallery taking in a predictable cast of North Korea, Iran and
Venezuela.
Nonetheless Mr Trump's world view contained many contradictions.
Where exactly is the boundary between national sovereignty and collective
action? And does America's newfound foreign policy pragmatism extend just to
calling for the return of democracy in Iran and Venezuela or actually for doing
something practical about it?
'An embarrassment'
The 2015 deal between Iran, the US and other world powers,
including China and Russia, was designed to prevent Iran developing a nuclear
weapon.
"Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the
United States, and I don't think you've heard the last of it," Mr Trump
told the General Assembly on Tuesday.
Iran's government, he said, was bent on "death and
destruction", while its people wanted change.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif commented on Twitter that
"Trump's ignorant hate speech" belonged "in medieval times - not
the 21st Century UN".
Using almost biblical language, the American leader portrayed the
world in terms of "decent nations" confronted with "rogue
regimes".
"If the righteous many do not confront the
wicked few then evil will triumph," he said in the speech.
"When decent people and nations become bystanders to history
the forces of destruction only gather power and strength."
Nuclear anxieties
The General Assembly was opened by Mr Guterres, who said that
millions of people were living in dread as a result of North Korea's nuclear
and missile tests.
"The use of nuclear weapons should be unthinkable," he
said. "But today global anxieties about nuclear weapons are at the highest
level since the end of the Cold War."
The former head of the UN refugee agency also spoke of being
"pained to see the way refugees and migrants have been stereotyped and
scapegoated - and to see political figures stoke resentment in search of
electoral gain".
According to Reuters news agency, when Mr Trump made his remarks
about destroying North Korea, one man in the audience covered his face with his
hands, while Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallstrom crossed her arms.
Loud, startled murmurs filled the hall, according to the agency.
In his speech, President Macron said climate change was starting
to take revenge on man, and extreme weather events would erase the differences
between rich and poor countries.
He promised an extra €5bn ($6bn; £4.4bn) of French investment to
fight climate change.
The French leader also defended the nuclear deal with Iran.
"Renouncing it would be a grave error," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sided with Mr Trump in
his speech, saying the deal with Iran should be amended or scrapped altogether,
and warned against the spread of Iranian influence in the Middle East.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan used his speech to urge the
Iraqi government to stop the Kurdistan Regional Government holding a referendum
on independence on 25 September.
Direct Sentence into Indirect Sentence
Direct: Kim Jong-Un saying: "Rocket man is on a suicide
mission."
Indirect: Kim Jong-Un said that rocket man was on a suicide
mission.
Direct: "If [the US] is forced to defend itself or its
allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea," Mr
Trump said.
Indirect: Mr. Trump said that if [the US] was forced to defend
itself or its allies, they would have no choice but to totally destroy North
Korea.
Direct: "I think the folks in the Pentagon when they look at
military options are just aghast at the potential loss of life that could occur
with at a minimum hundreds of thousands of South Koreans killed in Seoul,"
he told the BBC.
Indirect: He told the BBC that he thought the folks in the Pentagon
when they looked at military
options were just aghast at the potential loss of life that could occur with at a minimum hundreds of thousands
of South Koreans killed in Seoul.
Direct: "Frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the United
States, and I don't think you've heard the last of it," Mr. Trump told the
General Assembly on Tuesday.
Indirect: Mr. Trump told the General Assembly on Tuesday that in fact,
this
dealt was an embarrassment to the
United States, and he didn’t think they had heard the last of it.
Direct: "If the righteous many do not confront the wicked few
then evil will triumph," he said in the speech.
Indirect: He said in the speech that if the righteous many did not
confront the wicked few then evil would triumph.
