South Korea Rising in Crisis

The Cheonan incident has emerged as a potentially major gambit in South Korean President Lee Myung-bak's efforts to distance his country from China, establish it as America's full geopolitical partner in North Asia, and substitute the United Nations

Security Council for the six-party talks as the primary venue for international engagement-cum-confrontation with North Korea.

China, for its part, apparently prefers that the Cheonan incident does not impede the current movement toward economic integration with South Korea.

As for the United States, it welcomes a manageable security crisis in North Asia

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