[shrinkermd]

This article either functions as a threat to Kim Jong and his family or is prescient discussion of Japan re-arming. In either case the temper and climate in Asia is about to change.

[nuffsenuff]

The Shogun are returning?

[tkathy]

Yet another sleeping giant is getting their dander up.

[Semper Paratus]

Nippon is getting ready for an "Independence Day "Momement.

"Hi boys. Remember me! I'MMMMM BACK!"

[Shermy]

In either case the temper and climate in Asia is about to change.

Ya know, if I had a crazy neighbor who publicly bragged he was going to make nukes and bioweapons, use them, and even sell them to others, I might be a little scared too...

[Steel Wolf]

Weldon recently led a small, bipartisan delegation of US lawmakers to Pyongyang and returned saying he believed a deal was in sight in which North Korea would end its nuclear program in exchange for written guarantees of its security

Wow, that's all they wanted? Man, why didn't we send this master negotiator over sooner? To think that we've been worried all this time for nothing. Were it not for Bush's unilateralist foriegn policy, we would be able to have an honorable peace with North Korea. There could be peace in our time.

[JoeSchem]

To some observers, Agawa's comments illustrate an alarming lurch toward militarism in Japan and show how quickly Japan has forgotten its own legacy in colonial Korea and its role as a US military supply base during the Korean War.

Let me get this straight, because bad people living in geographical region A hurt good people living in geographical region B over sixty years ago, the good people living in geographical region A must now stand passively by as bad people in geographical region B hurt them.

You can tell a leftist wrote the article, because no decent human being would argue that a genocidal tyranny should go unopposed.

[Grampa Dave]

How about both!

[Ronin]

I have told everyone who will listen, there is no telling what Japan will do because they themselves don't know -- yet.

But one thing that the 17 years I have spent in this country has taught me is that when Japanese public opinion changes, it changes radically and totally. The socialists and communists are now totally discredited and the "peace constitution" is on it's last legs. Rearmament, specifically including nuclear weapons, is a definite possibility.

In fact, if there is anyone who thinks that Japan does NOT have nuclear weapons, or at least pre-fabricated parts ready for assembly into nuclear weapons, I have some nice options on prime Florida real estate to sell them.

I think, and this is just a hunch based on my amateur reading of the Japanese psyche, that if Al Queda is dumb enough to launch a terrorist attack in Japan, they will definitely reawaken the spirit of Japanese militarism and the results will be profound for Asia and the world.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Thank you for posting. Thank you for contributing to Free Republic. I'll put you on my North Korea list if you wish.