This is basically an official statement from the highest level of Japanese government, which says, "Don't stop us if we move ahead." They are more than eager to do so.
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We should lend them a few nukes.
I suspect China would have a response....unless they’ve had it with the North Koreans. With the issues over trade water routes Japan reacting might just tilt those scales. Could get real ugly...
What is going on with Krazy Kim? He’s making some dangerous enemies. The Chinese may be happy to see him ‘liquidated’ and less a thorn in their side.
Everyone has the right to protect themselves.
Tokyo is not stupid.
This is one the biggest foreign policy developments since 1945—totally shifts the balance of power in Asia.
Perhaps 72 years of keeping the Japanese on a two inch leash is long enough.
once lasers have become effective against missiles and artillery then N. Korea will be attacked....once N. Korea thinks lasers are soon to be effective against missiles and artillery, N. Korea will attack.
It a chess game....and we have to keep them thinking we don’t have a queen.
Good.
Japan's pre-emptive strike in 1941 sure worked out well.
Go ahead, Japan. I’m sure Trump will be OK with it. I’m getting sick of America kissing Communist ass.
HMMMmmm...
Does Japan have planes?
Does Japan have bombs??
Does Japan have balls???
If Japan militarizes, China cringes. American policy towards North Korea has been feckless, China’s suicidal.
When you consider how much Bobo hates Pres. Trump, and yet was willing to pass him the torch in the limo with one warning: North Korea.
Absolutely, feel free by all means. Need a few nukes?
What the Japanese have to do is build up their Anti-Missile defenses.There is No need to go on the offense.They have the technology and the capability.So there is no need to show those North Korean nuts that they are feared.
They should’nt be afraid.
They’d go from looking at reactor blueprints to testing within a year, then a Hello Kitty model a year after that.
Japan and Korea have had a very, very long feud going back to the very origins of both countries.
(This is before Perry sailed to Japan.)
Now, for the first time, the Japanese are speaking, not as a nation being strangled of raw materials, but as a nation faced with a very certain danger in front of them, and not far from their backyard.
This is a democratic government’s open response to a neighboring tin-horn dictator with nuclear toys, and a brattish attitude enough to use them.
This is an issue that could legally transcend any WW2 treaty arrangement.
While accepting that Japan needs the ability to defend itself against threats,
Remember how unhuman the Japaneese were in war.