Obama's Trip Lacked Notable Achievements - CBS News: "After taking his message as the 'first Pacific president' through four countries in eight days, President Obama wrapped up his tour of Asia on Thursday with talks with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and a planned visit to U.S. troops stationed in the shadow of nuclear-armed North Korea.
At a news conference here, Obama said he and Lee had agreed that their countries will no longer engage the North in endless, inconclusive disarmament talks. Obama emphasized 'the need to break the pattern of the past,' but neither leader offered new proposals or timetables for a resolution of the nuclear impasse. Obama also said that the United States and its allies are working on ways to send a 'clear message' to Iran on its nuclear program.
The Seoul stop was the last on a trip that has notably lacked concrete achievements but has seen Obama's personal narrative on full display, as he reminisced about the ice cream he ate during a childhood visit to Japan, invoked his 'historic ties' to Indonesia and recalled his mother's work in the villages of Southeast Asia. After more than a week of using his biography to connect to audiences in Asia -- perhaps the last corner of the globe where he had yet to take his story -- Obama appeared as popular as ever among ordinary citizens in the region."
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