NATION/WORLD
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, April 15, 1996
7A
Clinton tackles security issues
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Clinton traveled to Japan three years ago as a tough-talking trade warrior. He returns to Asia this week in a markedly different role: America's reassuring commander in chief.
Security problems — not trade disputes — lead the president's agenda on his weeklong, round-the-world journey.
Bill Clinton
He will stop briefly in South Korea before a three-day state visit to Japan.
Then he will fly to Russia for a summit dealing with threats to nuclear safety.
"The president will confront some of the oldest and newest challenges to the security of our nation, from the last unresolved problem of the Cold War — stability on the Korean peninsula — to one of the most urgent new threats we face — nuclear smuggling," said Secretary of State Warren Christopher.
The trip comes amid troubling tensions on the Korean peninsula and just weeks after China's menacing missile tests off the coast of Taiwan.
"Americans will see him representing the United States in important parts of the world," said Thomas Mann, a political scientist at the Brookings Institution. "If's more a matter of them feeling more comfortable with him as a foreign-policy president as opposed to any specific diplomatic achievements."
Battling for re-election, Clinton has to share the foreign policy limelight with Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, his Republican rival.
"Dole has years of experience in this area as well as his war record," Mann said. "Americans feel comfortable with Dole as a foreign policy leader, perhaps more so than with Clinton."
Clinton's failure to serve in Vietnam named doubts about his leadership. Dole, on the other hand, would come to the job with a resume noting that he was wounded as a U.S. soldier in Italy 51 years ago.
Christopher said the president already had made strong headway on trade and opening markets in Japan.
On the South Korean resort island of Cheju, Clinton will reaffirm the United States' strong commitment to Seoul's security and to peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.
In Tokyo, the president will sign an agreement with Prime Minister Ryuutaro Hashimoto reaffirming the U.S.-Japan security alliance and the
United States' commitment to maintain its military presence in Asia.
Smoothing the way for Clinton's visit, the United States agreed Friday to return a U.S. airfield on Okinawa to local landowners, meeting a key demand of Okinawas angry about the U.S. military presence.
Even so, the authorized level of U.S. troops in Japan is to remain at 47,000.
On trade, despite upbeat statements from the White House, the United States still has a $59 billion deficit with Tokyo. But Clinton is soft-pedaling the problem now.
"These are still contentious issues, but they're going to be downplayed during the president's trip," said Larry Chimerine, chief economist of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington think tank specializing in trade.
Clinton said that the trade deficit with Japan narrowed last year for the first time since 1990, down 10 percent from a record $66 billion in 1994.
"Our exports are at an all-time high," the president said. "Our auto producers (are) now leading the world."
Exports to Japan are up 30 percent, Clinton said.
"Today, exports to Japan support more than 800,000 good-paying American jobs, including 150,000 new ones since 1992," he said.
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