#1 ION KOREAS, WORLD MIL FORUM [GOOGLE Transl.] > IIUC JAPANESE MEDIA: NORTH KOREA MAY BE DIFFICULT/NOT SO EASY FOR JAPAN TO BEAT. JAPAN MAY HAVE TO FORMALLY WITHDRAW FROM THE US-JAPAN DEFENSE ALLIANCE IN ORDER TO TRULY PROTECT ITSELF FROM NORTH KOREAN MISSLE, NUCLEAR STRIKES. NOKOR has approxi 30 mobile launchers and 200 VARIOUS SCUD-BASED MISSLES whilst Japan has none - in order to protect itself from a potens NUCLEAR NORTH KOREA, JAPAN may have to attempt to search-and-destroy these preemptively by covertly sending large teams of COMMANDOES into NOKOR [several 00 minima]. UNLESS IN SELF-DEFENSE AGZ A NOKOR FIRST-STRIKE, TREATY > US + JAPANESE AIRCRAFT ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ENTER NOKOR OR CHINESE AIRSPACE.
* SAME > SECOND KOREAN WAR WILL GIVE CHINA AN EXCUSE TO FORCIBLY TAKE OVER AND FORMALLY ANNEX NORTH KOREA INTO CHINA; + UNTIL THE DEPLOYMENT OF F22's AND FOLLOW-ON, ETC. ADVANCED AIRCRAFT TO GUAM, USAF STRENGTH IN WESTPAC AND ASIA-PACIFIC WAS ACTUALLY QUITE WEAK DUE TO THE OVER-AGE OF ITS COLD-WAR ERA, PRE_9-11, FRONTLINE COMBAT AND COMBAT SUPPORT PLANES [F15's, F16's, C-130's, B52's, B-1's, even B-2's etal]. IT MAY TAKE ANOTHER FIVE YEARS [2012, 2012-2015 r.o] FOR THE USAF TO TRULY ACHIEVE COLD WAR-STYLE AIR SUPERIORITY/DOMIANCE IN ASIA-PACIFIC AGZ CHINA'S RISING PLAN, PLAAF AIR FORCES. |