DIPLOMACY

VOLUME XXXII NO 9-10

From the Chairman

Exclusive Interview

Submmit Meeting

Ambassador's Forum

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Korea-China Relations

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Based on the Flows of Their Unique Cultures:

The following are excerpts from a paper, "Globalization of Korean Culture," delivered by Kim Myung-gon, Minister of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Korea, at a luncheon meeting arranged by the Seoul Foreign Correspondents' Club on Sept. 14, 2006, at the Korea Press Center in Seoul. - Ed.

Anew cultural landscape completely different from the previous century is now emerging in the global village. Today is nothing less than a watershed in the development of human civilization. Just like changes in ecological environment, such as lifeless rivers that have been restored...

Changing Balance of Power In Northeast Asia

With the collapse of the communist world at the close of the 20th century, new international order was heralded.
This reflected that the world would enter the single market economic bloc amid increasing regionalism. At the same time, it meant that Northeast Asia would witness a changing balance of power and as a result, security and stability would be in jeopardy.
Changing balance of power in Northeast Asia mainly results from the antagonism between China and Japan, the retraction of the United States, and North Korean nuclear development ambitions, its military numerical superior...