Essentially he cut loose from the Mutual Defense Pact with Japan, live on TV Sunday, without even realizing it, and said in essence, not only "Japan, you are on your own", but also "Japan, you are responsible, not us, for protecting our 38,000 US troops in Japan on your soil if the North attacks or the missile goes awry". Totally irresponsible. I could see (former UN) Ambassador and all around Good Guy John Bolton popping a corpuscle in his brain over this. You can't make this stuff up. They are REALLY pissing the Japanese off with this "dont rock the boat, dont overreact to the Norkies ICBM launch" line.
If I were the commanding General of Air Defense in Hawaii and confirmed the flight path was headed for impact in Hawaii, would I choose Zero’s orders to do nothing, or would I order the missile’s destruction as an American patriot?