SPEAKING FREELY South Korea in a new Asia initiative

SPEAKING FREELY
South Korea in a new Asia initiative
President Lee Myung-bak is pushing his ambitious "New Asia Initiative", which aims to boost South Korea's role as a regional powerbroker. Lee will likely face the same roadblocks and critics as the late Roh Moo-hyun, who tried to make South Korea an honest broker between China and Japan and the United States and China. - Zhiqun Zhu (Jun 29,'09)

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