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===Japan, North Korea and Burma===
 
===Japan, North Korea and Burma===
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In [[Japan]], she met publicly with Yukio Hatoyama, the former opposition leader, who won a landslide election in Sept, 2009.  The question was over whether the new government would continue to follow American foreign policy regarding economic affairs, [[North Korea]]'s development of [[nuclear weapons]],<ref name="archive.frontpagemag.com">Johnson, Ben (January 3, 2003). [http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20448 "Appeasing North Korea: The Clinton legacy"].  FrontPageMag website.</ref> and the issue of 47,000 troops American troops stationed there. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in his election campaign vowed to review a 2006 agreement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Base from an urban to a coastal part of the southern island of Okinawa.  The base has angered residents because of aircraft noise and friction with U.S. servicemen; while in opposition, Hatoyama  suggested it could be moved off the island altogether, a move the United States under Bush strongly opposed.
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In [[Japan]], she met publicly with [[Yukio Hatoyama]], the former opposition leader, who won a landslide election in Sept, 2009.  The question was over whether the new government would continue to follow American foreign policy regarding economic affairs, [[North Korea]]'s development of [[nuclear weapons]],<ref name="archive.frontpagemag.com">Johnson, Ben (January 3, 2003). [http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=20448 "Appeasing North Korea: The Clinton legacy"].  FrontPageMag website.</ref> and the issue of 47,000 troops American troops stationed there. Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in his election campaign vowed to review a 2006 agreement to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Base from an urban to a coastal part of the southern island of Okinawa.  The base has angered residents because of aircraft noise and friction with U.S. servicemen; while in opposition, Hatoyama  suggested it could be moved off the island altogether, a move the United States under Bush strongly opposed.
    
In July 2009, Bill Clinton travelled to [[North Korea]] to attempt to negotiate for the release of Americans held hostage. She was asked by a Congolese university student what her husband thought of international relations. She responded annoyed, "My husband is not Secretary of State, I am," and "I am not going to be channeling my husband." Diplomats laughed when Clinton took umbrage at a Congolese questioner whom she took to be asking her husband's opinion, but it later surfaced that the question had been mistranslated.
 
In July 2009, Bill Clinton travelled to [[North Korea]] to attempt to negotiate for the release of Americans held hostage. She was asked by a Congolese university student what her husband thought of international relations. She responded annoyed, "My husband is not Secretary of State, I am," and "I am not going to be channeling my husband." Diplomats laughed when Clinton took umbrage at a Congolese questioner whom she took to be asking her husband's opinion, but it later surfaced that the question had been mistranslated.
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