In addition, an important place for very private communications among national leaders. Trusted emissaries need to be used to test whether an overture would be reciprocated. Because public daytons and not actions are so subject to true intentions they need to be conveyed through trusted channels. National leaders and immediate staff need to resist the temptation to week everything they do to the press to get the appearance of action and the appearance of masters of the situation. So let me conclude by providing the rest of the store by george santi andos famous quote about history. About the dangers of forgetfulness, he goes on to explain manhunt and true orgress in which no events habits have grasp onto instincts. This is truly the challenge for the leaders and citizens for the powerful countries of southeast asia. They need to understand their own histories and understand what has changed since the time the historical events occurred. They need to avoid history impeding development o
That is in a part sort of a National Psychology examination to get a good answer for it. I dont have a good answer but its totally different circumstance because of the outcome of the war. The points scott got to about the different ways that we americans mayry, err on the side of forgetting history but on the other side we do not make a fetish of history. Can he best answer i [no audio] ok, lets leave it there. Sorry. Larry from csis. For is for. Your this is doctor lee. Acrossorean officials the board have been negative in their comments about the recent japanese Investigative Commission that looked back into the formulation of the statement. How it was researched and how it was formulated. Commissionort of the did reveal some south korean involvement in discussions with the japanese government about the language of the chronos statement. I can understand some unhappiness on the part of South Koreans about that, but on the , it seems to me any south korean official who believes south
That will close out this segment. Please be back here at 1 00 so you can find these because we will start as close as possible to the time at 1 15. Books on sale outside but Sister Simone will be on the inside of this room in the back to sign them. Thank you, everybody. Just to let you know, we are covering more of this Community Action committee. Coming up live at 2 00 p. M. Eastern, the livingstones institution looks at the conflict between russia and ukraine. That will be live here on cspan. Looking at some of our primetime programming, at 8 00, the new york ideas decibel. Speakers include new york ideas festival. Include the author of living in the tech age. Tonight,an history tv, the battle of the crater. The white house has confirmed the video showing the beheading of james foley as authentic. President obama will be making a statement at 12 45 eastern. We will have coverage of that here on cspan. Holder hasneral eric arrived in missouri. He is looking into the death of Michael B
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] more now on u. S. Northeast asia relations with a discussion on the strained relationship between japan and south korea and what it means for the u. S. Former officials from the National Security council, the cia and u. S. Embassy in seoul. This is just over one hour. Let me start by introducing the Senior Adviser and career asianand director of vie studies. Hes the former director for Asian Affairs on the nsc staff i look forward to your remarks. At albrightiser stonebridge group. Of wedent and ceo have been looking for an opportunity to have him speak for some time. We are very pleased to have him. Bruce will bat cleanup. He is a Research Fellow from he is well known on all these issues. On the koreaargely hand. He evokes reaction from both sides. That is how we know hes doing his job. He makes everybody angry. He joined heritage in 2007. The Deputy Division chief for kore
Not discussing a transition, and if he thinks hes going to be part of that future. Its not going to happen. The people who are the opponents of this regime will never, ever stop. They will be an insurgency at least and worse potentially even than a civil war if it continues, because they will not stop. Now we also are not out of options with respect to what we may be able to do to increase the pressure and further change the calculation. And i think weve made that clear to the Russian Foreign minister and others. Nor are the other players short of an ability to be yet to have an impact here. So i think they can bolster, they can protest, they can put out distortions. At the bottom line is we are going to geneva to implement jimmy fell one. And if assad doesnt do that he will invite greater response in various ways for various people over a period of time. So im not particularly surprised that hes trying to divert this, hes been doing this for months to make himself the protector agains