This is CBS I In The World. I'm John Batser.

People's Republic of China, the aggression in East Asia. I welcome Gordon Chang, my colleague

and friend, who is also writing a newsweek, the title of the article, The Threat of China

is Making Friends of Traditional Fows. Gordon, a very good evening to you, you key on what

we thought would never happen. Tokyo and Seoul together. We are surprised by that. Was

Asia surprised by that? What drives it? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. With the election of Yun Suk-Yul as president of South Korea, there

was going to be some sort of movement between South Korea and Japan to on defense matters.

But yes, I am surprised with the speed of it, because we got to remember that in South

Korea, especially when they have progressive presidents like Moo Jae-Yin, Yun's predecessor,

that South Korea views Japan as the enemy, not North Korea and China. Yun, a conservative,

has changed that orientation, very pro-US, and therefore he is working with Washington

and Tokyo. And this is a very positive development.

There are ironies here, Gordon. Beg pardon for a little detour. I'm reading a new book

about the end of the Second War in Japan. And Togo was a significant figure who looked

for peace and was a principle in those last extremely scary days after the atomic bombs

were dropped. Because there was a question of whether there would be a coup with the palace

and the military would take over the leadership of the country and the ruin. Togo, but what

I learned is Togo's father purchased that family name Togo. They were Koreans.

So, the final minister supervising ushering in the end of the Second War was a Korean.

And that has great significance in Japan. So we need to touch on that. Japan brutalized

Korea for decades, centuries before hand. And I believe the enmity is still in place in

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