[Oldexpat]

The US plans to mothball some AEGIS Cruisers. Maybe we should just offer them to Japan..somebody who has the balls to use them.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Japan has the capability, what with the JS Kongo, JS Chokai, JS Myoko, and in 2010 the JS Kirishima, (Konggo class AEGIS ships, etc), combined with their own PAC-3 missiles), and they are trained. highly motivated when it comes to defense of the mother island, and willing to use them against little Kim Jong Un), as well as Japan airborne defense system assets which can be deployed. DPRK better realize what they are playing with here, I don't know if junior in Pyongyang fully gets it yet, and considering possible assassination attempts on him, he is under the gun to do something dramatic to cement himself as a leader, even at 28 years old. This could be forseen as a component of dynastic regime change up there... I expect little cooperation from Obama to Japan on this issue, and if I must, I privately will tell all whom I can here to not rely on my own President, as much as it pains me as an American to say it. I will give them the straight line. Obama cannot be relied upon 100%, Japan (and South Korea), or more or less on their own.

[Doofer]

The US plans to mothball some AEGIS Cruisers. Maybe we should just offer them to Japan..somebody who has the balls to use them.

They have there own.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%C5%8D_class_destroyer

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Japan has three or four Aegis destroyers.