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Soon, I suspect that Japanese video makers will come up with a video version of Whack-A-Mole featuring N. Korea’s Chia-in-Chief.

Since launching a series of missiles less than a week ago, the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Il, has yet to face the promised consequences of his actions. The United States and Japan were particularly vocal in their opposition…

North Korea may have awoken the Japanese military impulse, this time in self-defense, with its missile launches. The Chief Cabinet Secretary announced that Tokyo would rethink the common interpretation of its constitution that restricts Japanese milita…

Tough talk in Japan:
Japan said Monday it was considering whether a pre-emptive strike on the North’s missile bases would violate its constitution, signaling a hardening stance ahead of a possible U.N. Security Council vote on Tokyo’s propo…

If anyone thinks China wants to intervene and reign North Korea back to reality, I have several thousand acres of prime water front real estate to sell you in Nevada. China has nothing to gain by reducing tensions in eastern Asia, and everything to gain by having a junior partner to aid with their expansionist goals.

The only thing the UN is doing is prolonging the inevitable confrontation, which will come to pass. This works in North Korea’s favor by providing a lull which allows them to fine tune existing weapons and develop more dangerous systems. Time is running out on Japan, and any semblance of FREEDOM in eastern Asia.

China may actually now put its foot down in terms of Northe Korea; they literally pleaded with Japan to give them one more week immediately after Japan started talking ‘pre-emptive’.

We tell NK there will be serious consequences if ONE missile is launched. We then react to FIVE by referring them to the U.N. security council when we know Russia and China will do nothing and by stating that the world is “mad.” No consequences, and even SK will not give up their economic support of the North (which we knew).

I don’t blame Japan for losing confidence in President Clinton’s Bush’s foreign policy of relying on the UN and multilateralism.

It’s unknown whether Kim Jong-Il’s less-than-overwhelming fireworks were meant to serve this particular purpose: “Japan was badly rattled by North Korea’s missile tests last week, and several government officials openly discussed whether the countr…

Btw I’ve LONG advocated arming Japan, Taiwan and S.Korea with nukes, let them provide a strong counter incase China has visions of establishing dominance. The problem with arming Japan is that this is what the Russians saw in re-arming the Germans after WWII; Japan raped, pillaged and murdered accross SE Asia and so an armed Japan would worry the entire Orient area even if we’re there to keep both China and Japan in check.

“The South Korean military is composed of the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA), Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN), Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF), and Republic of Korea Marine Corps (ROKMC), together with reserve forces. Many of these forces are concentrated near the border with North Korea. All South Korean males are constitutionally required to serve in the military, typically for a period of 24 months.”

Seems like they would be feeling most threatened (and likely to preempt) in all this…

What is South Korea’s military like? It seems like they should be doing this.

Japan’s left can’t manage to remove Koizumi, who has served a full term and been re-elected, and it’s common knowledge that he’s a hawk who supports amending the constitution to allow a more robust Japanese military. For what it’s worth.