Commentary
For years, American diplomats and military leaders have been asking the South Koreans and the Japanese: “Can’t we all just get along?”
(Left to right) U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Sung Kim, Japanese Foreign Ministry's Director-General of the Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Takehiro Funakoshi, and South Korea's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, Noh Kyu-duk, pose for photographers during their trilateral meeting on the North Korean issue at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, Japan, on Sept. 14, 2021. Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo
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Grant Newsham
Author
Grant Newsham is a retired U.S. Marine officer and a former U.S. diplomat and business executive with many years in the Asia/Pacific region. He is a senior fellow with the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies (Tokyo) and Center for Security Policy and the Yorktown Institute in Washington, D.C. He is the author of the best selling book “When China Attacks: A Warning to America.”
