Has he been reading the obama / democrat playbook?
He also intends to examine an agreement that permits US warships to dock at Japanese ports, in violation of the nation's non-nuclear principles.
I thought the "agreement" already said our Navy ships would not enter Japanese waters with nuclear weapons on board. Of course, they may have a number of interesting components that when assembled by a trained ordie could become a nuclear weapon...but technically, no nuclear weapons...
They really want to push this, fine. Pull the X band radar out of Japan. Pull the PAC-3 batteries. Delay shipping SM-3s to their Navy and the upgrades to their Kongo class DDGs. See how they like living inside North Korea's current ballistic missile footprint with zero self-defense. We can play hardball too. ... Oh, wait, we have obama, about has hard-ball as nerf.
“Pull the X band radar out of Japan. Pull the PAC-3 batteries. Delay shipping SM-3s to their Navy and the upgrades to their Kongo class DDGs.”
Yeah,, thats how to fight Japan, deprive them of our electronics, they’ll NEVER figure out how to build their own. BTW, when they bought F-15s, They ripped out our radar and put in a homemade phased-array solid state model in the place of our swivel dish. Like a little flying Aegis crusier.