Honeymoon over for US president in north Pacific

Updated June 23, 2009 07:35:56

North Korea and its nuclear ambitions could mark the end of Barack Obama's foreign policy honeymoon. President Obama says the US is fully prepared for any contingencies with North Korea. But the US President faces much more than just a rogue, nuclear armed, politically unstable east Asia and north Pacific region.

Presenter: Linda Mottram, Canberra correspondent
Speaker: Dr Michael Fullilove, global issues director at the Lowy Institute for International Policy in Sydney, and foreign policy fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington