S. Korean Govt Ends Funding for AEI
From the Chosun Ilbo, a conservative South Korean daily:
The Korea Foundation has ended its support for the American Enterprise Institute, a rightwing U.S. think tank credited with being the brains behind the war on Iraq, Foreign Minster Ban Ki-moon told the National Assembly's Unification, Foreign Affairs and Trade Committee on Monday. It reportedly did so at the ruling party’s request.The AEI is the leading neoconservative think tank with close links to the Bush administration. Its brain children include the invasion of Iraq, tax cuts and planned redeployments of U.S. forces around the world. Vice President Dick Cheney, former Deputy Secretary of State John Bolton, and "Axis of Evil" speechwriter David Frum all have AEI backgrounds. Reviled by critics as a neocon bastion, President George W. Bush has called it a collection of America's best minds.
The Korea Foundation, a body under the Foreign Ministry, has given US$1.4 million to the AEI since 1992. A foundation official said it gives money to major Washington think tanks to support research on Korea. He said the National Assembly had asked it to end contributions to the AEI.
I guess the leftist ruling party in S. Korea didn't care for the research result that AEI produced regarding S. Korea's appeasement policy toward N. Korea.