Posted on 06/24/2016 11:03:00 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Joe Biden to China: Curb North Korea or Japan Can Go Nuclear ‘Virtually Overnight’
Vice President Joe Biden warned China that the Japanese government may acquire nuclear weapons “virtually overnight” if the threat from North Korea becomes too grave, urging Beijing to do more to curb Pyongyang’s belligerence.
The Vice President’s comments echo those of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who warned that Japan and South Korea acquiring nuclear weapons “is going to happen anyway” in controversial remarks issued in March. Japanese government officials and media responded to Trump’s comments much more severely than they have to Biden’s.
“What happens if Japan, who could tomorrow, could go nuclear tomorrow? They have the capacity to do it virtually overnight,” Biden told PBS host Charlie Rose in an interview broadcast Monday. He explained that he made this warning to Chinese President Xi Jinping personally while discussing the deployment of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system in South Korea to protect from a North Korean attack, a move that China has condemned vocally.
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This effectively breaks down psychological and political barrier to developing nukes by China's East Asian neighbors. If things are not moving in the right direction soon, both S. Korea and Japan are no longer inhibited to pursue their nuclear arsenal.
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Hell Joe...they just need a shotgun.
Sounds like they’re staging Biden’s first de-facto campaign speech as his drop-in replacement for an indicted Cankles.
Joe is proving a broken clock is right twice a day. It’s pretty much a no-brainer when you think about it. Japan has tons of weapons grade plutonium, some of the fastest supercomputers in the world, a well developed rocket industry capable of lofting satellites, etc., in short everything they need.
I’d also be willing to bet they have created and simulated designs, prefabricated components, and established doctrine for their deployment and use. it would be foolish to think otherwise.
Biden for VP !
... Oh ... wait ...
Biden is an idiot. If Japan can go nuclear overnight, they already are nuclear. So he just took away the carrot. Think China will call your bluff big boy.
I was thinking that America’s blindest squirrel finally found a nut.
Yes, interesting that Plugs would bother. The ChiComs are certainly well aware of Japanese capabilities.
Being a “screwdriver away” from having nuclear weapons has been the standing joke for decades now.
With Obunghole’s fecklessness, they certainly have updated and refreshed any plans and components they “may” have had.
Lucid moments are normal for everyone, Joe. Don’t worry, it will pass.
Is it my imagination or has plugs Biden been in the news more than usual lately?
Is the shoe ready to drop on Cankles?
Lots of bad stuff leaking out about her too.
I was thinking that too. 7.5 years and all he gets to do is grope people. All of a sudden, he’s gone international, talking like Churchill.
And when Trump mentioned that Japan may to create some nuclear weapons, the MSM went ape sh!t crazy.
Japan confides in Joe Biden? Oh, okay. Well he does work in that place on Penn. Ave., so maybe they see him as a possible lobbyist for weapons shipments. Maybe they’re trying to use Biden to put a scare in the chinese.
MSM has no problem turning madness into wisdom or vice versa, if it suits them. But you already know that. Sorry to repeat the obvious.:-)
Holy sh*t sticks Biden, some of us know that Japan has nukes and all but no reason to say it.
ll’bet they regret having brought Biden on as VP now, regardless of whatever good he was to them at one point
This is public knowledge. Japan has been telegraphing it for years.
They could have a nuclear weapon in hours. They have numerous Aegis-class destroyers that can fire SM-3 missiles; these missiles are capable of taking out satellites in orbit, as well as many other things.
I can’t believe he’s said something sensible. The world really is upside down.
Isn’t that what Trump said? But Trump was criticized for it
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