[Pearls Before Swine]

Of course China isn't concerned. They are probably helping the program--its nuclear threat by proxy.

If Tokyo and Seoul aren't concerned, they ought to be. They shouldn't become the new Europe, expecting the US to eternally do their heavy lifting.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Yes, let's wait for more evidence... Like Tokyo under a mushroom cloud.

[sell_propaganda]

Doesn't Japan have a constitutional clause prohibiting militarization? Similar complaints have been filed against those ungrateful Germans who we defend. Now, plans for a post-Saddam Iraq are invoking post-WWII models including constitutional demilitarization. I can already hear someone saying, 50 years from now, "Iraq can't expect the US to eternally do its heavy lifting."