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| Japan Could Boost Defense Over N.Korea Launch | |
| 2009-04-08 | |
Japan will massively increase its military spending after North Korea's abortive satellite launch Sunday. Much as the North's launch of a Taepodong-1 missile in 1998 gave Tokyo justification to build up its missile defense system, so Sunday's rocket launch is likely to cause Japan to boost its missile defense and reinforce its military.
Tokyo apparently feels that North Korea's attempt to launch a satellite has quelled domestic opposition to boosting the missile defense system. The Yomiuri and Asahi Shimbun newspapers on Monday both pointed out that the scope for response of the PAC-3 falls short of effectively defending Japan. Japan is likely to increase the system's efficiency and introduce more SM3 and PAC-3. The Japanese Defense Ministry is reviewing a plan to introduce an early warning satellite that detects impending missile launches. Tokyo currently relies on information provided by the United States. Already there is talk about increasing the defense budget, with press reports that North Korea's launch "bolstered the morale of the Self-defense Forces," as the Japanese military is called. In a poll by the Yomiuri released Monday, 88 percent of respondents said they felt insecure because of North Korea's rocket launch, and 78 percent opted for strong sanctions. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #7 Look at all the actions in the last couple of weeks with the Big O. He does all this limp wristed grovelling Marxist globalist tranzi actions that project weakness. And now the Norks have woke up the Japanese from their pacifist sleep. At least they have a collective survival instinct. The Big O is playing T-ball in a hard ball world. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-04-08 19:09 |
| #6 The Japanese have the M5 SLV, a 2.5m diameter solid booster that can loft 1.8 tons into orbit. A heavy ICBM of the MX class would not be difficult for them. Japan has 50 tons of Plutonium. They have an advanced ICF program and are considered a virtual thermonuclear superpower. If they made the decision, they could build a large arsenal (thousands) of high yield thermonuclear weapons and be able to deliver them anywhere. The Chinese arsenal would pale in comparison. |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-04-08 18:23 |
| #5 This all fits into the pattern of Japanese military rearmament of the past 2 decades : Clinton was seen as weak on the NKors so the Japanese started really pumping their close-in air defense, and building more capable frigates and destroyers. Under Bush, the Japanese were invited into Ballistic Missile Defense development and started deploying Patriot PAC3 batteries and upgrading ship defenses to Standard Mark 3. Now, with Obambi's limp response to the NKor launches, we can expect to see a lot more of the new "helo carrier" class of destroyers appearing in the Japanese Navy, and a BIG push for an all-Japanese BMD setup to protect Japan and its immediate 200 mile Nautical Zone. The Japanese tend to field really good equipment that is never exported, so the rest of the world tends to underestimate just capable the Japanese equipment is. |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2009-04-08 17:23 |
| #4 So if Kimmie goes nuclear it seems only logical that Japan will follow. Only thing is, the Japanese will have far greater technical expertise and resources to develop a truly effective deterrent, especially if they get the idea that Bambi is a soft headed moron without the will to help them. And then, of course, there is Taiwan. And what would be the chance that all of these people are talking to each other about the "China problem"? Maybe even considering some kind of a collective response? Good one, China. Did you think all these people would just lay down and die for you? But then, our own government for the past few decades has been appeasing them and sending them our money as fast as we could. Maybe somebody thought they'd be our friends if we did but I don't get a real friendly kind of a vibe from them. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-04-08 15:38 |
| #3 Hmmm, you menace your neighbors and they take measures to protect themselves. Whoah, that's like some weird cause & effect thing! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-04-08 10:03 |
| #2 The Chinese are too clever by a half. Their arming of rogue states like North Korea and Pakistan with missile and nuclear technology may have caused pain to regional rivals like Japan and India but have had the effect of causing those nations to engage in an arms buildup aimed at China itself. In the late 1950s, India's Nehru was strongly anti-military. He resisted nuclear weapons and wanted to disband the Indian army Soon after Independence the first commander-in-chief of the Indian armed forces, General Sir Robert Lockhart, presented a paper outlining a plan for the growth of the Indian Army to Prime Minister Nehru. Nehru's reply: "We don't need a defence plan. Our policy is non-violence. We foresee no military threats. You can scrap the army. The police are good enough to meet our security needs." He didn't waste much time. On September 16, 1947, he directed that the army's then strength of 280,000 be brought down to 150,000. Even in fiscal 1950-51, when the Chinese threat had begun to loom large on the horizon, 50,000 army personnel were sent home as per his original plan to disband the armed forces. After Independence, he once noticed a few men in uniform in a small office the army had in North Block, and angrily had them evicted. Then the Chinese attacked. Though India tested a nuclear device in 1974, it actually had no deployable weapons. It was only in the late 1980s that Rajiv Gandhi ordered weaponization, in response to Chinese help to the Pakistani nuclear program. The Chinese supply of missiles to Pakistan and their testing triggered the Indian nuclear tests and massive increase in the development of missiles by India. There are now nuclear missiles aimed at targets in China. And now they provoke the Japanese |
| Posted by: john frum 2009-04-08 07:31 |
| #1 Just in time then??? WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC CHINA: THREE KINDS OF SINO-JAPANESE PRIMARY WAR CONTINGENCY SCENARIOS/MODELS SHOULD PLAN ON PREVENTING US MILITARY INTERVENTION ON THE SIDE OF JAPAN [ve pre-existing US-Nippon Treatises], OR IN THE ALTERNATE SCHEME FOR THE COMPLETE DESTRUCTION OF ALL OF JAPAN'S MAJOR CITIES BY NUCLEAR ATTACK [approxi 25 major Japanese cities] REGARDLESS OF US MILITARY INTERVENTION. China should immediately target the USA for nuclear attack after it successfully destroy's Japan's cities = wipes out Japanese civilization??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-04-08 02:44 |