American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

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

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.

So now we are pushing economic reform, bank reform and enterprise reform. So we can finish that reform this year, in September or October. Then our economy may be much more, you know, normalized.

American presence is, you know, the major cause of balance of power and the stability in this region.

So South Korean ability is very much limited to handle North Korean, you know, difficulties. So we don't want to see an immediate collapse of the North Korea regime.

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