Posted on 08/10/2017 11:37:31 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In the event of a North Korean nuclear attack on Guam, Japan’s new defense minister said Thursday that his country’s military could shoot down the missiles before they reach the U.S. territory.
In such a scenario, Japan has the right to activate its Aegis destroyer missile defense system, Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said during a session of the National Diet, Japan’s parliament.
Any attack against Guam would be considered an existential threat to Japan, the defense minister said, also citing a mutual defense agreement with the United States.....
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God bless Japan
Uh-oh. Sword rattler, meet the real McCoy.
How about THAT!! The Japanese could conceivably wind up SAVING Pearl Harbor if Lil Kim goes completely nuts....
This time Japan is protecting Guam on behalf of the US?
Japan will end up amending its constitution to allow it greater military action, which China will not like. And North Korea may find out Japan is in fact a nuclear power.
Good on Japan. They’re obviously not French.
There are several nuclear powers that do not acknowledge it. Israel is a thermonuclear power too.
Rattling a sword makes noise, drawing one does not.
First Australia announced it would invoke its treaty obligations if the US is attacked, now Japan. Powerful allies lining up against the Fat Boy. Is he really this insane? We are going to find out.
This shows what strong leadership brings.
Japan has been there before...
+1
The missiles will pass over Japan on their way to Guam.
Eleven thousand kilograms of reactor grade plutonium out of a total of 47,000 are reportedly still in country. Allegedly the other is apportioned to reprocessing centers out of country for MOX processing.
They are versed in handling weapons grade material, which had been acquired for advanced reactor research four decades back. The more than 331 kilograms bought? from the U.S. was shipped to Savannah not long ago.
Telegraph has a story pushing the idea of Japan not being able to intercept ICBM on the way to Guam, that a highly lofted trajectory similar to the last DPRK test would keep the missile out of Aegis range. Wonder what the writer of that story believes would happen in the long interval between the launch and re-entry of such payloads?
Good line.
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