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Trade Dispute Undercuts Obama's Korea Trip

Little drama is expected during President Barack Obama's visit to South Korea. Such relative calm is, in itself, quite significant, particularly in light of the expansive and violent anti-U.S. beef demonstrations that transfixed Seoul last year as well ...

From BRUCE KLINGNER, The Heritage Foundation,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Congress,  Roh Moo-hyun,  George W. Bush,  Christopher Hill

Japan's Security Policy: Navigating the Troubled Waters Ahead

Abstract: The U.S. relationship with Japan has just become more complicated. The recent election victory of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) has resulted in more resistance to a truly shared U.S.-Japanese mission. Refusing to provide troops to aid ...

From BRUCE KLINGNER, The Heritage Foundation,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Liberal Democratic Party,  Heritage Foundation,  Ichiro Ozawa,  Social Democratic Party

Japan: America’s Reluctant Ally

The most surprising aspect of the dust-up between the U.S. and Japan is that anyone is surprised. It was obvious that the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) security policies ran counter not only to long-standing U.S. priorities but also to American ...

From BRUCE KLINGNER, The Heritage Foundation,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

DPJ victory poses challenges for U.S. alliance

But it is clear that the DPJ will be less willing to fulfill existing bilateral U.S. force realignment agreements and more resistant to Washington's requests for Japan to expand its overseas security role. A poll of DPJ candidates taken on the eve ...

From BRUCE KLINGNER, The Heritage Foundation,  2 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Yukio Hatoyama (politician),  Kaoru Yosano,  Nobutaka Machimura (politician),  Yuriko Koike (politician)

America's New Japan Challenge

The rumbling you heard across the Pacific Ocean over the weekend was Japan moving further from the United States -- and closer to China. Japan's left-of-center opposition party, which has long spouted anti-capitalist and anti-US rhetoric, won a ...

From BRUCE KLINGNER, The Heritage Foundation,  2 Sep 2009
Related Topics: European Union,  Barack Obama,  Yukio Hatoyama (politician),  Ichiro Ozawa

Japanese Election Poses Challenges for U.S. Alliance

Japan's opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) fulfilled predictions by winning a landslide victory over the moribund ruling party. The change in government is historic: It is only the second time in 50 years that the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ...

From BRUCE KLINGNER, The Heritage Foundation,  31 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Yukio Hatoyama (politician),  Kaoru Yosano,  Nobutaka Machimura (politician),  Yuriko Koike (politician),  Barack Obama

How to Save the U.S.-Japan Alliance

Countless official statements by the U.S. and Japan have highlighted the two countries' bilateral alliance as the linchpin or cornerstone of stability in Asia and indispensable to achieving the strategic objectives of both countries. Although true, ...

From BRUCE KLINGNER, The Heritage Foundation,  26 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  U N Security Council,  Heritage Foundation,  Gerald Ford

Through the (North Korean) looking glass

Ironies abound in the current United States policy toward North Korea. Someone awakening from a long slumber could be forgiven for concluding that a naively liberal president George W Bush had been replaced by neo-conservative Barack Obama. Moreover, ...

From BRUCE KLINGNER, The Heritage Foundation,  20 Aug 2009
Related Topics: George W. Bush,  Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Robert Gates

No North Korean Thaw from Clinton Trip

It is one thing to point out that former President Bill Clinton's trip to Pyongyang to secure the release of two American journalists was a success. It is quite another thing, however, to say that the release of the journalists marked a change in North ...

From BRUCE KLINGNER, The Heritage Foundation,  18 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Bill Clinton,  Barack Obama,  United Nations,  Lee Myung-bak,  Kim Jong-il

Success, but at what cost?

It would be heartless not to welcome the release of two U.S. hostages from North Korea's malevolent clutches. Pyongyang's imposition of a sentence of 12 years of hard labor on journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee for trespassing into North Korea was an ...

From BRUCE KLINGNER, The Heritage Foundation,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Bill Clinton,  Kim Jong-il,  United Nations,  BBC

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