U.S., Japan, S. Korea ties sustained by shared interests: U.S. envoy

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday expressed confidence that the trilateral partnership between the United States, Japan and South Korea will be "sustainable" due to "shared interests" between all three countries.Conversely, China, North Korea and Russia cannot forge a similar relationship as "they don't share strategic interests in the same collaborative, cooperative way that we do," Emanuel told Kyodo News and other media in Tokyo.The ambassador also played down concerns that the outcome of the U.S. presidential race in November next year and elections in the two key U.S. al…READ FULL ARTICLE