Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad posing for group photo with the South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Asean country leaders during the Asean-South Korea Commemorative Summit 2019.
Most notably, South Korea's motoring giant Hyundai said it will invest some US$1.55bil in Indonesia to build a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant in Kota Deltamas, east of Jakarta, by 2021. Dr Lee Jae-hyon of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies, an expert on South-east Asia, said the NSP is"quite an achievement" for the liberal Moon administration. But while cooperation projects with each Asean country are aplenty, they are nothing out of the ordinary.
"It may not be on the same scale as China's Belt and Road initiative, or have the same magnitude as America's Indo-Pacific Strategy. But it can be a signature project that lends focus to Asean-Korea ties." In fact, NSP arose out of Seoul's urgent need to diversify its diplomacy and reduce economic reliance on traditional partners US, China, Russia and Japan.
International studies professor Leif-Eric Easley of Korean's Ewha Womans University said:"The New Southern Policy can be Moon's greatest foreign policy legacy if, by demonstrating capacity-building achievements in South-east Asia, Seoul can credibly show Pyongyang the benefits of future integration.
rn they don't need us.. maybe you can make them dependant on your kepala sawit or smthg
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