and increase of uncertainty. The reason is that, although there are efforts made to ease political tensions among nations by reconciliationbetweenthe East andthe West onthe surface, many countries in the area, is competing each other to have competitive edge on military interest. So, there are big change in security and strategic environment.
1. The interest from Northeast Asia
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The Roles ofKorea
1. The bridge betweenChinaand Japan
Before the forming of EAEC in the region, it is crucial for Chinaand Japan to cooperate first. However it is also impossible for them to make their own voices all the time and insist their own taste onthe process of cooperation in this current situation. That is way they are so crazy about making Korea stand for one oftheir side to
theNortheast Asia Project present conflicting arguments against Korean versionof history concerning the kingdoms of Goguryeo, Balhae and Gojoseon.
In 2001, a special bill concerning the legal status of ethnic Koreans living in China was submitted to theKorean National Assembly. In the same year, NorthKorea also applied to register a group of Goguryeo tumuli onthe UNESCO's World Cultural
of resources, plants, animals, and minerals, the land has nurtured countless generations of Chinese people.
Full Name: The People's Republic ofChina
Area: 9,600,000 sq km
Population: 1.3 billion (as of 2004)
Capital City: Beijing
National Flag: Five-Stars-Red-Flag
Location: middle and East Asia, bounded onthe east by the Pacific Ocean
Administrative Demarcations: 23 provinces, 5 autonom
and personal experience onthe subject of Changdeokgung Palace. While working as a tour guide at the royal palace, I gave many tours for locals and global tourists and met lots of people who were interested in Korean royal palaces, and traditional Korean culture.
I found that there were many questions tourists wanted to know about the past ofKorea. For instance, Northand South American touri