Abe has won big and can now go big.
Can you imagine having NK on your doorstep? They have every right to be a little freaked out and getting ready for a worst case scenario.
North Korea isn’t content to just survive, they have to dominate. Fat Boy’s stability’s questionable.
If reports are true, and China sticks to it’s (reported) guns, NK has a year left of solvency. It either goes out like the Soviet Union with a whimper or it goes for the Hail Mary (out with a bang).
The end of NK is either, unification with South Korea or China. But who wants them? By them, I mean the people with the full understanding that there is no government with any control. China would want NK for the buffer and the military strategic advantage. NK would be a burden for South Korea (at least initially).
I would if I were them, too.
NK is literally at their back door.
I guess this is their Cuban Missile Crisis.
RE: Japan is taking the N. Korea nuclear threat seriously.
So, what are they going to do about it, develop nukes and missiles as well? Or do they expect the USA to fight their battles for them?
Only a crazy man would attack Japan.
They are a threat to no one, slowly dying due to lack of reproduction and the entire world would rain down on NK if they did attack.
Now SK has some logic but it would still be unbelievably stupid.
OH BS!
From: Retain Mike Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:38 AM To: 'yourletters@washingtontimes.com' Subject: A Nuclear Japan Will Counter North Korea
The 2008 changes to Japan's basic law governing space should provide the evidence needed that their patience with a lunatic North Korea is wearing thin. Japan has received abundant evidence for abandoning the U.S. umbrella, and developing its own missile defense and nuclear retaliatory capability.
Japan saw juvenile, ignorant attempts of U.S. diplomacy when Bill Clinton ignored “face” and concluded a bilateral agreement with North Korea. To be effective negotiations required China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan participation. Bush #2 began six party talks, but undercut a rare example of U.N. assertiveness when it considered Resolutions 1695 and 1718 imposing military and economic sanctions. In 2009 Hillary Clinton counseled “showing some patience” with North Korea, therefore giving Japan more evidence of a diplomacy attachment disorder. A missile text launch prompted Barak Obama to express displeasure, while proposing drastic cuts in our nuclear arsenal and missile defense programs.
Japan can also note Russian and Chinese leaders now lack the cynicism and paranoia they showed during the Cold War. North Korea has nuclear weapons programs based on Pakistani technology. However, these Asian leaders seem comfortable with a mentally unstable nuclear regime on their borders. Brezhnev or Mao would have noted such astonishing counsel by dispatching these reckless individuals to treatment at cancer wards.
Japan's national self-interest embraces a several thousand year heritage unfathomable to Westerners driven by two year election cycles. Japan’s decision to reject U.S. military protection will leave experts astonished with the rapid removal of political and technological barriers.
Japan Basic Space Law Short Article http://rescommunis.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/japans-basic-space-law-enters-into-force/
Long Article http://www.nti.org/e_research/e3_japan_remilitarization0108.html
now we know why the Air Force B-52’s are on 24 hour alert
Methinks the ‘calm’ is about run its course and the ‘storm’ may be imminent.
Well, it was a long time coming.
God help us all.
PM Shinzo Abe called the elections he won for the lower house of parliament yesterday with NK in mind.
Donald Trump is also visiting Japan in a few weeks.
An interesting situation for the “rocket guy” to exploit perhaps with an incident.
NK could be crazy enough to start with an attack on Japan, just as Saddam attacked Israel during the Gulf War. It wasn’t a militarily “strategic” move by Saddam anymore than it would be by NK. But just as Israel is not seen as having friends in the region, the NK could think (in error in my view) that Japan is such low hanging fruit because it is not well loved in either China or South Korea due to the memories of imperial Japan in the first half of the last century. I think NK would make a mistake about what it thinks South Korea and the U.S. do if NK attacked Japan.
The real question is, if the US attacks the NK nuke sites, what will Red China and the Soviets do? That is the real question. Is China going to tell NK to shut up or will they defend them. That is the 64 dollar question.
China is directly responsible for their puppet regeim in Pyoontang.
So seriously that they did nothing when the North Koreans fired an ICBM(unknown if loaded or not) into their airspace.
Your views?
Your views?
China and Russia intend to dominate. The Korean War of the ‘50s was fought against China and Russia in Korea. Probably better dealt with now than later, but decide as you wish.
China speeds ahead of U.S. as quantum race escalates, worrying scientists
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3597828/posts
Japan wants NK to be ashes.
I feel bad for the millions of NKs living like animals because many may die.
But imagine the horror on the survivors’ faces when they see what has taken place in the outside world the past 60 years.