Posted on 07/10/2009 6:21:02 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
The Japanese Foreign Ministry had kept the English-version document of a secret Japan-U.S. pact that outlines the handling of the U.S. forces' nuclear weapons since 1960, a former senior ministry official said Saturday.
The document had been placed under the strict supervision of the ministry's North American Affairs Bureau and Treaties Bureau, which is now International Legal Affairs Bureau, said the official who served as director general of the Treaties Bureau.
It is the first time that the existence of the English-version document at the ministry has been revealed.
A former vice foreign minister has already confirmed the existence of a Japanese-version of the document at the ministry.
Under the pact, Japan agreed, when it revised the security treaty with the United States in 1960, to allow U.S. military ships to carry nuclear weapons on such occasions as when they make port calls at Japanese ports.
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Ping
They are skull-screwing with the Norkies. (as they should) This and some other things they are doing and will be announcing.
My prediction is the inpending revelations will suggest that Japan has not been nearly as “nuke free” as had been thought. Since the nukes on ships/nuke sub factor has long been a source of lefty caterwauling, this shocks me very little, but there will be MORE...I mean more totally new stuff.
The question of nuke weapon sub-components will be publically broached, and the revelation will be that yes, Japan has made some of these. And early on the argument will be, well, a lot of such components are DUAL-USE, riiiiight...? “So maybe we didn’t really KNOW they were for weapons...”
And this finicky back-and-forth will have the objective of incrementally, subtely picking away at the taboo that does still remain in the mind of the Japanese public.
And in fact the GOVERNMENT POSITION has long since been made, and it is even possible that they have nukes in every form but officially (which was and is the Israeli approach).
***THERE WILL BE AN ARMS RACE IN ASIA***
If any place should have nukes (that currently does not) it should be Japan.
Wow....I mostly agree with you.
What is driving a lot of this is the Japanese perception that Obama sounds nice, but would do little to assist Japanese security interests in a conflict scenario. In fact there are two completely discrete forces behind this, one political, and the other financial.
Who here doubts that Chinese lending to the US has a stifling effect on US foreign policy in Asia? To say nothing of Hussein’s other-worldly, child-like view of the exercise of power.
If we had someone like Ronaldus Maximus, I think that Pacific Rim worries regarding a fully rearmed Japan would be 50% less, or perhaps 90% so.
Leaked out to support Zeros “pact” with the Russians to reduce or Nukes.
See....it wasn’t a Treaty after all.
Do we have “pacts” in thed U.S.?
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