Get your li'l bobbleheads while they last...
Posted on 10/11/2006 11:31:45 PM PDT by ferri
TOKYO - Saying the country was “in gravest danger,” Japan ordered a total ban on North Korean imports late Wednesday and declared that ships from the impoverished North were prohibited from entering Japanese ports as punishment for its apparent nuclear test.
North Korean nationals are also prohibited from entering Japan with limited exceptions, the Cabinet Office said in a statement released after an emergency security meeting.
Twenty-four North Korea-registered trade ships were moored at Japanese ports as of Wednesday afternoon, according to public broadcaster NHK. Local traders were already refusing to unload shipments to protest the alleged test, and the boats were expected to be ordered out, NHK said.
“Japan is in gravest danger, if we consider that North Korea has advanced both its missile and nuclear capabilities,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters following the meeting.
“We cannot tolerate North Korea’s actions if we...
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Smart and needed.
Riddle me this Batman: What does North Korea export?
I say we ship Japan some nukes.
It would serve the double purpose of scaring both NK and China.
China might then take care of the problem for us.
Citizens, mostly.
Well, not intentionally, but they leave every chance they get.
rice, dirt, disease, people?
Can anyone tell me just what it is North Korea exports, and why Japan would need it?
We don't need to ship nukes to Japan. They have tons of plutonium stockpiled and could build dozens of advanced nukes witin a year if they had the political will to do so. It would require that they change their constitution, which forbids them from having nukes. This may just give them the will to do it.
Never mind, I read the article: coal, sea and agricultural products (produce?)and other raw materials.....if Korea exports any foodstuffs at all with large enumbers of its people perpetually on the brink of starvation, that is a crime in itself.
ping
i wonder what Kim's reaction is going to be?
Wondering here how much business N. Korea does with Japan?
LOL!!! are operators standing by? i haven't gotten one yet! and now it sounds like the Japanese won't be able to either. :( poor them.
from the article:
A total ban on imports and ships would be a big blow for North Korea, whose produce like clams and mushroom earns precious foreign currency on the Japanese market. Japan imported US$133 million worth of products from the North in 2005, mostly sea and agricultural produce, coal, and other raw materials, according to government statistics.
One week.
Japan could have a nuke up and running in just one week!
Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006
Japan may not want to go nuclear but it's no technical hurdle: analysts
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061011a4.html
By ERIC PRIDEAUX and AKEMI NAKAMURA
Staff writers
Japan will not respond to North Korea's nuclear test by developing its own atomic weapons, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday, although analysts said the nation has the technology to quickly pursue such a path.
Abe told an audience at Waseda University in May 2002 that it was not a violation of the Constitution for Japan to possess atomic bombs.
However, in Abe's declaration during a question-and-answer period at a House of Representatives Budget Committee, he referred to Japan's three nonnuclear principles of, according to the Foreign Ministry, "not possessing,not producing and not permitting the introduction of nuclear weapons into Japan."
"I would like to clearly state that there will be no change regarding the three nonnuclear principles," Abe said.
Experts were quick to point out that Japan does possess the knowledge and resources to go nuclear should it decide to.
"The country has enough plutonium and uranium," said Yasuhiko Yoshida, an international politics professor at Osaka University of Economics and Law who is a former director of public information at the International Atomic Energy Agency. "It could make an atomic weapon in six months."
That estimate may even be generous. Military-affairs expert Tetsuya Ozeki, as director at private foreign-affairs think tank ATWI Research Institute, believes the country could develop a nuclear weapon in as little as a week. But he thinks to create one would be foolish.
This is interesting. I expected they would.
I take it those are life-sized : )
A massive 4' tall, I'd guess!
He might become more ronery?
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