Trilateral relations of U.S. and two Koreas under new Obama administration

"With the current affairs such as the financial crisis and the Iraq War," Gi-Wook Shin, the director of Shorenstein APARC, says "the new Obama administration may not have the North Korea issues on its priority list for a while. Lee Myung-bak administration, meanwhile, is urged to revisit the workable policies of the past as well as to initiate the pragmatic diplomacy towards the collaboration between South Korea and the U.S."

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