Posted on 03/27/2017 11:23:31 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
JAPANESE POLITICIANS WANT THE ABILITY TO BOMB NORTH KOREA FIRST BEFORE BEING 'DESTROYED'
BY TOM O'CONNOR ON 3/27/17 AT 1:58 PM
Top Japanese lawmakers have begun arguing for the capability to launch a preemptive missile strike on North Korea in the face of Pyongyang's increasingly active ballistic and nuclear weapons programs.
In response to militant rhetoric from North Korea, a group of influential Japanese legislators has announced a public campaign to end the World War II-era restrictions, imposed on Tokyo by the U.S., that prevent Japan from initiating military action. The post-war scheme tasked the U.S. with defending Japan from foreign attack but Japanese politicians including ruling Liberal Democratic Party head Hiroshi Imazu and former defense chief Gen Nakatani have said that Japan deserves the right to defend its own interests and should acquire the means to do so.
“Japan can’t just wait until it’s destroyed,” Imazu told The Washington Post Monday. “It’s legally possible for Japan to strike an enemy base that’s launching a missile at us, but we don’t have the equipment or the capability.”
“I believe that we should consider having the capacity to strike,” Nakatani told The Washington Post.
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once lasers have become effective against missiles and artillery then N. Korea will be attacked....once N. Korea thinks lasers are soon to be effective against missiles and artillery, N. Korea will attack.
It a chess game....and we have to keep them thinking we don’t have a queen.
Good.
The issue is how to stop the ten thousand artillery pieces aimed at Seoul. The moment an effective solution is found for that is the day something will be done against Pyongyang.
Yeah. Funny, fat little dude with yellowing teeth. Has already ordered the execution of hundreds of people, some of them close relatives, often by horrid means of elimination. A real sweetheart, that one.
N. Korea is gold mine of cartoonish villains perfect for movies. Without Kim family, any character close to them could have been dismissed as too cartoonish and extreme. They cannot do that because they are all real and alive.
That fat little punk has no power......it’s the good old boys with their hands on the button....they aren’t about ready to give up their lifestyle to go to jail or get hanged.
Japan's pre-emptive strike in 1941 sure worked out well.
Go ahead, Japan. I’m sure Trump will be OK with it. I’m getting sick of America kissing Communist ass.
Might not have to wait on the Chinese...Kim’s army is starving,
he’s on barrowed time.
HMMMmmm...
Does Japan have planes?
Does Japan have bombs??
Does Japan have balls???
IIRC; Western Germany wasn't salivating at the thought of the East German 'invasion'.
How'd that ever work out?
I have no doubt that Japan has secret plans for rapid productions, of ships, tanks, bombers, fighters . . .etc.
Not great. They ended up with Merkel, who gave them unrestricted Islamic hijrah (jihad by immigration) invaders.
If Japan militarizes, China cringes. American policy towards North Korea has been feckless, China’s suicidal.
When you consider how much Bobo hates Pres. Trump, and yet was willing to pass him the torch in the limo with one warning: North Korea.
I remember watching a panel of analysts a few years back - the question was asked about how long it would take Japan to field a nuke, (thinking the reply would be in years) - "oh, about 72 hours".
NK has been increasingly more exposed to the rest of the world and humanity is shocked and desirous to DO something for a people that shouldn't exist so enslaved in the 21st Century.
The Japanese militarists did not believe that the U.S. would stick with the fight for the long haul. The problem with the 1941 strike was that it was too restrained. They should have invaded Hawaii, or at least Midway, and continued air strikes until all the oil handling facilities in Hawaii were destroyed.
In the event, the attack on the U.S. was optional, the Japanese could have bided their time until the U.S. went back to sleep. Japanese internal politics between the militarists and more accommodating factions, and the reckless U.S. demands forced the militarists hand. North Korea is much closer to Japan, and does constitute an existential threat. North Korean facilities are not immune from attack like those in the U.S. were in 1941. The only thing that has sustained North Korean bluster is the fear of Chinese intervention on their side. Were the Chinese military exercises a warning to the Norks, or the U.S. and Japan? I think the Chinese are being deliberately ambiguous. They want to retain North Korea as a thorn in America and Japan's side, but don't want to provoke a war that would be costly and destructive for them, nor do they want to lose their pet pit bull. They don't even bother to apologize when it occasionally kills some of their neighbors' children.
P, you don’t have to. They can make their own in a few days or a few hours if they are smart.
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