U.S. role crucial in Northeast Asian reconciliation

John Roos, U.S. Ambassador to Japan, conducted a historic visit in August 2010 to Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima. What is the possibility of and the implications for a similar U.S. Presidential visit? Gi-Wook Shin, director of Shorenstein APARC and the Korean Studies Program, explores this question and suggests that the U.S. must play a role in the reconciliation of World War II memories in Northeast Asia.