Japan gets bold on N Korea

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Japan threatens force against N Korea

Japan has warned it would launch a pre-emptive military action against North Korea if it had firm evidence Pyongyang was planning a missile attack.
Defence Minister Shigeru Ishiba said it would be "a self-defence measure" if North Korea was going to "resort to arms against Japan".

Mr Ishiba said it would be too late if a North Korean missile was already on its way.

His remarks were the latest in the international row over Pyongyang's nuclear intentions, and followed a North Korean warning that it had the ability to strike American targets anywhere in the world, if provoked.

Pyongyang was responding to a statement by the head of the US Central Intelligence Agency, George Tenet, warned that Pyongyang had a long-range missile capable of reaching the west coast of America.

On Wednesday, the United Nations nuclear watchdog resolved to refer North Korea to the UN Security Council for breaching nuclear non-proliferation agreements.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/2757923.stm

Things are apparently a bit more strained over there than we ever thought. The Japanese are just not known for speaking like this.
 
Japan doesn't even have a military. Canada could take them on.
On another note...
South Korea is the one in danger here. Even in the situation of war if N Korea landed a nuclear missile within us borders they would probably only kill 100,000 people tops. S korea on the other hand within weeks would probably sustain five million casualties.
 
HeXp£Øi± said:
if N Korea landed a nuclear missile within us borders they would probably only kill 100,000 people tops
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I heard the good news last night that N. Korea's missiles could hit my area. There's a lot more than 100,000 around here.
 
Its just that theyre working from a very young program, which means that their yields will be fairly Hiroshima/Nagasaki-ish. The accuracy of such a weapon would be fairly suspect as well. I think any such blast would only kill 100k myself ... but the ensuing looting and panic riots would kill 10,000+ more.
 
odds are that a bomb from such a program would be extremely dirty. Fallout would spread well in that area.
 
That would be best with a high altitude blast ...possibly done for mass ecconomic disruption rather than body count.

I could just imagine 2 million tvs, telephones, 500k computers, electrical grid, cash registers, hospitals, cars, and whatnot getting fried with an EMP pulse.
 
San Francisco is not a large area and has 776,733 from the 2000 census.

Alemeda County where I live has 1,443,741 people. Santa Clara county 1,682,585 people.

Check out this map

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I don't know what kind of blast radius these things have though.
 
HeXp£Øi± said:
Japan doesn't even have a military. Canada could take them on.
On another note...
South Korea is the one in danger here. Even in the situation of war if N Korea landed a nuclear missile within us borders they would probably only kill 100,000 people tops. S korea on the other hand within weeks would probably sustain five million casualties.
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Actually, Japan has a very good military.
 
HeXp£Øi± said:
Even in the situation of war if N Korea landed a nuclear missile within us borders they would probably only kill 100,000 people tops. S korea on the other hand within weeks would probably sustain five million casualties.
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but a nuke anywhere in the United States would have a much greater pyschological effect on the American public than people dying on the TV in some other country. A good thing or bad thing depending on your viewpoint...
 
Gato_Solo said:
Actually, Japan has a very good military.
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Agree. I was about to say they are actually much better than Canada.
The threat to South Korea is not only of a nuclear attack. Actually Seul is whithin range from a massive artillery attack. Such a strike would deal lots of damage much before any counter-airstrike could do anything to prevent it.
As for the supposed experimental Korean ICBM I still think it's a bluff. Even India and Pakistan don't have them...
 
flavio said:
San Francisco is not a large area
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Not specifically but the region is huge. Probably bigger than the LA area.

tommyj27 said:
but a nuke anywhere in the United States would have a much greater pyschological effect on the American public
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It would relieve any anxiety people have over retaliation strikes wiping out the entire country.
 
Isn't Japan, under WWII mandates (or constitutionally) required to only have a defensive army? How many offensive weapons do they have & why are we still proteting them if they can do the job themselves?
 
they are restircted to 1% of GDP for military expenditures and aren't constitutionally allowed to station troops outside of home territory.
 
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