South Korean and Japanese ambitions face political hurdles
Asians cherish their jobs and their economic forthcoming. Take their jobs and their economic foundation for life away and they go ballistic. More than others maybe. Korea and Japan are both very strongly industrialized nations and they also have to deal with a world economy on its knees. Which means that export markets are not sexy too. But people need jobs and those RE widgets are not really job getters. Good luck with those pledges.