US wants anti-missile radar in Japan

Herald Sun ^ | 26 December 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

THE United States has asked to install anti-ballistic missile radars in Japan, following North Korea's nuclear weapons test in October and missile launches in July, a report said today.

US military troops and the US Department of Defense have lodged a request with Japan's Defense Agency to locate a radar in Japan aimed at counter-attacking inter-continental ballistic missiles, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reported, without clarifying sources.

Japan's Defense Agency, following the US approach, is considering the plan, in light of Japan-US Security Treaty, which demands "providing security of Japan and keeping peace in the Far East'' as conditions for offering US troops facilities in Japan.

Japan was prompted to boost its missile defenses in cooperation with the United States in 1998 when North Korea sent a suspected long-range missile over its main island and into the Pacific.

North Korea's October 9 atom bomb test, in addition to its July 5 firing of seven missiles into the Sea of Japan (East Sea), also fueled the drive for the joint missile scheme.

[Aussie Dasher]

Japan would be mad to say no!

[onedoug]

Would this let them get them before any nuclear testing, as was supposed to have been be the case?

[PhilDragoo]

China will object just as Russia objected to Poland. It is time to put national interest and security ahead of New Tonian Diplomacy.

After all, Kim Jong Il threw a Taepodong over Japan in 1998 then got off with an oops my bad.

The least to be done is antimissile installations.

Better bet would be sending the Kim Family Godfather a bottle of primo hooch say Dom Polonium 1970.