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Vice-President Dick Cheney may not seem like the most reassuring of people, but on his trip to Japan, which began on Feb. 20 and ends Feb. 22, that's exactly that he was tasked with doing: reassuring Tokyo that the U.S.-Japan relationship was still strong. Normally that wouldn't be a difficult mission. And today in a speech on board the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk, anchored off Yokosuka Naval Base near Tokyo, Cheney declared, "Relations between our two countries have never been better than they are today." The problem is, that's not quite true...
...Cheney's visit comes at a time of growing unease in Tokyo that the U.S. and Japan may be drifting apart - and North Korea is one of the main causes. While Japan under new conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has favored maintaining a hard line against Pyongyang, the U.S. was seen by some here as backing down at the recent Six-Party Talks, which culminated in an agreement that will give North Korea up to 1 million tons in fuel aid in exchange for shutting down its nuclear program...
...contribute to a new regional identity. Panelist David R. McCann, the director of the Institute, stressed that there is a long tradition of international cultural exchange in East Asia but said that this was interrupted by Western political involvement in the region, “and its puppet, Japan.” “I see Hallyu as a return to human nature as it was seen before this aberrant century,” he said. But another panelist, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Eileen C. Chow, said that Hallyu is hardly a panacea for regional...
...possibility of forcing Kim from power by cutting off his regime from aid and trade, the agreement signed on Tuesday represented a victory-albeit a small one. Now, the immediate question it faces is simple: Have the U.S. and its four negotiating partners-South Korea, China, Russia and Japan-laid a solid foundation for a lasting deal on North Korea's nukes, or is this agreement, as one former U.S. negotiator puts it, "just another false start, destined to end badly...
...repeatedly made and then reneged on such accords. For the Bush Administration, whose officials had once speculated openly about regime change, the agreement signed on Feb. 13 represented a marked shift to diplomacy. But have the U.S. and its four negotiating partners--South Korea, China, Russia and Japan--laid a solid foundation for eliminating Kim Jong Il's nuclear arsenal? Or is this agreement, as one former U.S. negotiator puts it, "just another false start, destined to end badly...