Unification is one thing, and stability in Northeast Asia is another thing.

If America would withdraw from South Korea, there could be a power struggle between such as China and Japan.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

To realize peace on the Korean peninsula, and to develop exchange, cooperation between both Koreas, they are the, you know, immediate target of our government.

So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.

So such an American troops presence in Korea in the South and Japan, total some 100,000 should stay there forever, even after unification of Korean peninsula.

Well, that is very imperative to let North Korea open door to outside.