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. # cheering i've been speaking to patrick cronin, who is the asia—pacific security chair at the hudsonank. i asked him about the significance of the south korean president's visit. this is a new era. these are two natural strategic partners who have largely neglected each other, but the time is now. whether it's security or technology issues or whether it's dealing with human rights and values, dealing with the economy, these are two basically strong powers who are looking well beyond the region, so this is a very important partnership. are you expecting anything to come out of the trip, especially from a security perspective? well, i do, but not specifically. obviously, there isn't time to get into a lot of the details, but i think this is an indication that the door is open between seoul and london to do serious business. if you're talking about russia and what they're doing in ukraine, or russia, what they're doing with north korea, there's a major security interest there, including with korea now becoming a major arms seller in europe as well as in asia. i think on trade, when you