#ROK: #Japan. Unexpected and unprecedented alliance in North Asia. David Maxwell, FDD. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. David Maxwell, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and senior fellow at the Global Peace Foundation
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#ROK: #Japan. Unexpected and unprecedented alliance in North Asia. David Maxwell, FDD. @GordonGChang, Gatestone, Newsweek, The Hill. David Maxwell, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and senior fellow at the Global Peace Foundation,
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-south-korea-japan-agree-crisis-consultations-camp-david-summit-2023-08-18/
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS Eye in the World. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Bachelorette with Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang, who's traveling. |
| 0:10.4 | He's in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
| 0:13.0 | We're very pleased to welcome our colleague David Maxwell of the Foundation for the |
| 0:17.4 | Defensive Democracy to comment on a meeting that we last week anticipated, an historic |
| 0:23.7 | meeting between the Prime Minister of Japan, Kishida, and the newly elected President |
| 0:29.9 | of South Korea, Mr. President Yoon. |
| 0:32.8 | The meeting was to take place at Camp David, and the President of the United States was |
| 0:37.1 | the host. |
| 0:38.1 | The significance of this cannot be underestimated. |
| 0:41.2 | So I go immediately to David, who previewed this for us last week before it happened, but |
| 0:46.2 | things always, there's always something that could fall off the bus. |
| 0:51.0 | David, a very good evening to you. |
| 0:52.7 | Kishida and Yoon, I've watched the handshake. |
| 0:56.1 | This is about two countries that have been at odds for at least a hundred years because |
| 1:01.8 | of the colonial past of Korea, when it was occupied by Japan and the memories of abuse |
| 1:12.8 | of the Korean people by the imperial Japanese. |
| 1:16.4 | That handshake, however, did not look for the back home. |
| 1:20.6 | It looked like these two need each other. |
| 1:23.2 | What is your opinion of this meeting at Camp David? |
| 1:25.6 | Did it break any new ground? |
| 1:27.8 | Are we moving into territory that we have never been before? |
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