The visit has been welcomed as a positive change in Washington's Burma policy, from one of isolation to engagement.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

The meetings were the highest-level U.S.-Burma dialogue in 14 years and part of Washington's move from a policy of isolation to engaging the military government.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

The fighting was halted by a 1953 armistice but with no peace treaty, the two Koreas remain technically at war, amid decades of isolation and hostility.

VOA: standard.2009.09.26

He said the expulsion is obviously a matter of concern to the United States and a step backward,and that North Korea has only brought upon itself further isolation.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15