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  • Japan to Come Clean About Secret Military Pacts with U.S

    02/24/2010 8:20:54 PM PST · by ErnstStavroBlofeld · 21 replies · 520+ views
    The Chosun Ilbo ^ | 2/24/2010 | The Chosun Ilbo
    The Japanese government will officially admit that it signed two secret pacts with the U.S. in 1960 and 1972, allowing the U.S. Forces Japan to intervene in a war on the Korean Peninsula without consulting Tokyo and allowing the U.S. to deploy nuclear weapons in Okinawa in a regional emergency. The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported Wednesday that an expert committee at the Japanese Foreign Ministry recently investigated the question and recommended admitting the existence of the two secret pacts. They will be made public in March. The first pact was agreed when the two countries revised the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty....