Japan–US Union and Southeast Asia: Getting closer to cement the status quo?

... movements — the USSR, China, and the DPRK in the north and Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos in the south. However, in the case with Southeast Asia the political and cultural diversity of the nations did not become an obstacle enough for them to form ASEAN and subsequently embrace the former Cold War opponents, whereas Northeast Asia is still characterized by serious discrepancies even between allies, such as the US, Japan, and Korea. In the case with Southeast Asia the political and cultural diversity of the nations did not become an obstacle enough for them to form ASEAN and subsequently embrace the former Cold War opponents, whereas Northeast Asia is still characterized ...