Korean alliance. The center for stratic and International Studies hosted this hour and 15 minute event. Well, welcome back from your break. Im michael green. Im the Senior Vice President for asia and japan chair here at sic and a professor at georgetown and like victor cha, a veteran of the long forgotten bush administration. This panel is going to look at our alliance in the context of northeast asia. The previous panels touched on bilateral defense issues, on ways to deal with the rising threat from north korea. Those issues will come back in this panel, but what i hope we can do for the next hour and 15 minutes is provide the larger geopolitical context within which were now working. The north Korean Nuclear challenge cannot be divorced from the larger geopolitical memory and vision for the future of northeast asia. And we are confounded, we are obstructed in our effort to find a diplomatic solution by the fact that there are different ideas in North East Asia about what the regions