news.yahoo.com — TOKYO - 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 possibleU.N. Security Council vote on Tokyo's proposal for sanctions against the regime.
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More than you ever wanted to know about Japan's Self Defense Force:<a class="user" href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/japan/index.html">http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/japan/index.html</a>KJI is a complete lunatic if he thinks he can attack Japan and get out alive.
subcraniumJul 10, 2006
I believe you just made my point. When China invades, it doesn't consider it an invasion. (I daresay some Tibetan monks would feel differently.)But maybe that was your point as well. I couldn't tell from your message.
psuvikingJul 10, 2006
Are you Joe McCarthy's e-ghost?
jrsimsJul 11, 2006
The last thing the world needs is more war. Can't we just settle this dispute over a nice, clean Google fight?<a class="user" href="http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=japan&word2=north+korea">http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=japan&word2=north+korea</a>
tvashtarJul 11, 2006
Ok, firstly are we all working on the assumption that someone like Kim Jong Il is a rational leader? There is a kind of MAD doctrine at work here whereby he can theaten to attack South Korea in the event of foreign aggression (something he has threatened on many occasions), comments saying there are 30000 US troops are irrelevant, the fact of the matter is there are 9,000,000 people in Seoul and every single one of them has a heavy shell with their name on it sitting a few tens of miles away in North Korea. Before the US could make any really serious inroads into North Korea civilian casualties in South Korea would already be catastrophic. I mean are people seriously willing to bet on Kim Jong Il's rationality? What I'm saying is you cannot just presume they won't follow through on their threats, no matter how irrational it is to do so.
nikhilnidhiJul 12, 2006
incredible yet eerie pictures of north korea<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/world_news/North_Korea_Forbidden_pictures_that_you_re_not_supposed_to_see">http://digg.com/world_news/North_Korea_Forbidden_pictures_that_you_re_not_supposed_to_see</a>
gerrydamanJul 14, 2006
I'm heading to South Korea to teach English...the DMZ is just miles away. Let's hope everything clears up. Check out my blog, <a class="user" href="http://thedailykimchi.blogspot.com">http://thedailykimchi.blogspot.com</a> to read about the latest.