Korean-American Relations: The Search for Stability at a Time of Change

Korean-American Relations: The Search for Stability at a Time of Change

- Speaker: W. Anthony Lake, former U.S. National Security Advisor

- Date : September 18, 1997.

"Korea today has an opportunities to shape this period of rapid change to its advantages. Far from being a crossroads for conflict and conquest, Korea can become an economic and even geopolitical gateway, a fulcrum for progress in a region of extraordinary growth and possibility. For that to become reality, Korea must face two fundamental challenges. First, it must reconfigure its economy to meet the demands of a globalizing population. Second, it must devise a realistic and effective strategy for dealing with the prospect of unification...”