four issues center on the discussion of security in the next century. The first one is associated with the significant long-term changes in the equations of military and economic-power and the general framework of regional semrity in the region. Secondly, the underdeveloped institutionalism occurs not because of "culture" per se, but because of different ways of thinking. The problem has to do with the semrity of Asia as a region, not Asian sm1rity. Thirdly, despite Asianization and vastly

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... gent interests across East Asian countries, one common view that seems to be shared by all regional states is the United States' security commitment as the indispensable anchor for East Asian semrity. The last issue includes two interdependent topics, the Korea-U.S. relations and North Korea. The 11pdating of the Korea-U.S. relations should start from the following two important approaches to the alliance countries: 1) the difference in security conception of the two countries, and 2) preparing each state's visions for rmification of the two Koreas. On North Korea, it is necessary to a,kno•wledge the North as a state alienated from the international order, which is dominated by the U.S.