It will be curious what Asian countries agree to this. The only three candidates I can see are: Philippines, South Korea, and maybe Japan.
I have been a vocal advocate on this site for years to put Nuke IRBMs in Asia.
It seems the Pentagon is catching up.
We had a chance to prevent the Chicoms and Norks from becoming who they are now by punching both countries in the face hard. I would say if you (Chicoms) cross that parallel,we will reign Hell on you. The Swamp,even back then,would not have that.
You mean publicly? There isn’t a place on earth we can’t already hit. Why waste the money? We have had missiles in South Korea since 1991.
The latest is that in 2017 South Korea tested an 800 km range Hyunmoo-2C missile. That’s just under 500 miles.
On 4 September 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump agreed “in principle” to scrap a warhead weight limit on South Korea’s missiles in the wake of North Korea’s sixth nuclear test.
Trust me, they never left. With this alone, parts of Japan is within reach, North Korea, Russia and China. For a middle range, that’s all they need.
rwood