潜在动荡的最直接原因是朝鲜，该国现在不仅对韩国构成传统的军事威胁，而且核威慑所有的亚洲国家及美国。
The most immediate cause of potential instability is North Korea, which now poses not just a conventional military threat to South Korea, but also a nuclear threat to all of Asia, as well as to the US.