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2010-07-28 China-Japan-Koreas

Japanese panel recommends changes in defence policy

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Posted by 3dc 2010-07-28 19:42|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 As before, IMO read = JAPAN NEEDS, WANTS NUKES [agz CHINA].

Also read, SOUTH KOREA etal. NEEDS + WANTS NUKES [agz CHINA + JAPAN]. Ditto VIETNAM [agz EVERYBODY].

Espec iff the US desires to set up BI/MULTI-LATERAL REGIONAL GMD-TMD, + also to modify + transfer COLD WAR REGIONAL SECURITY RESPONSIBILITIES to local Allies, Moderates.

Once again, IRONY > it may SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHH ....CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC
[Correctness] indirectly be in SOUTH KOREA'S + US + even JAPAN'S [Russia?] GEOPOL INTERESTS to allow NORTH KOREA TO INDIGENS DEV NUKES, as vee CHINA???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-07-28 20:29|| 2010-07-28 20:29|| Front Page Top

#2 ION NOT-NECESSARILY-UNRELATED

* IIRC STARS-N-STRIPES > ARMY PREPARES FOR "HYBRID" THREATS.

Da COLD WAR "HI-LO" = "MIXED THREAT".

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-07-28 20:44|| 2010-07-28 20:44|| Front Page Top

#3 "Japan must allow the transfer of nuclear arms ~~through~~ to it."

FTFY

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-07-28 20:51|| 2010-07-28 20:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Japan understands the US nuclear shield is necessary to protect Japan.

If Japan can figure this out, you'd think a liberal could.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-28 20:59|| 2010-07-28 20:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Barbara - I should point out that I spent a while with an online thesaurus before posting this article. The better to protect Fred.

That said "through it" was originally:

Japan has also had a policy of not making, owning or allowing on its territory any nuclear weapons and has campaigned for their abolition, seeking to prevent more atomic attacks such as those on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

However, the panel recommends that Japan permit the transfer of nuclear arms through its territory -- something Japan has already secretly allowed US forces to do in the past, according to recently released documents.

Posted by 3dc 2010-07-28 21:40|| 2010-07-28 21:40|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 is correct.

* YONHAP NEWS > SCHOLARS FOR SOUTH KOREA,JAPAN ASK [Japan PM] KAN TO ADMIT 1910 ANNEXATION TREATY WAS VOID. Japan had historically always claimed or argued that its 1910 annexation of the Korean peninsula by formal Treaty had been wholeheartedly desired + approved by Korea.

* Also from YONHAP > CHINA'S FAILURE TO BLAME NORTH KOREA FOR THE "CHEONAN" LED TO SOUTH KOREA, US JOINT MILITARY DRILLS: STEINBERG.

ARTIC > STEINBERG = argues that, iff it had, CHINA had would NOT now be sufferring any loss of credibility or prestige by the US-ROK holding joint drills in the WEST, EAST SEAS [Yellow Sea] close to Chin coasts.

* WMF > "DEFENSE REPORT" JAPANESE THINK TANK PROPOSES FORMAL AMENDMENT OF NUCLEAR BAN TO ALLOW LEGAL, OPEN OR UN-CONDITIONAL ENTRY OF US NUCLEAR WEAPONS INTO JAPAN.

VERSUS

* WMF > NEW JAPAN AMBASSADOR: JAPAN BACK IN 1972 NEVER ADMITTED THAT TAIWAN WAS "CHINESE TERRITORY", as opposed to Taiwan being Japanese andor Non-Chinese controlled territory, espec as per the 1972 Sino-Japanese/China-Japan Joint Statement on Taiwan.

* WMF > CHINESE MEDIAS AND EXPERTS: IFF NOT BY WAR, THE US WILL FIND A WAY TO ISOLATE OR CONTAIN CHINA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-07-28 23:39|| 2010-07-28 23:39|| Front Page Top

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