[GOPJ]

Per my study of this situation in Japan, the Japanese people have been woefully kept in the dark. Combined with poor crisis management skills in Japan from a psychosocial perspective, odd Japanese constitutional and legal provisions that handcuff them even in terms of basic self defense, and a populace more easily exploited for mass panic than perhaps others, these indeed make for rough days ahead.

Our U.S. military bases in Japan (Yokota, Yokosuka, Atsugi, Misawa, Sasebo, Zama, Iwakuni) including thousands of civilian American families, are no doubt in the North Korean attack plans and should be considered under severe threat.

Finally, the American people should also be told and prepared for the fact that American servicemen and women in Japan (as well as others) could also become victims of unparalleled commando acts by agents of North Korea.

"Rough days ahead" have arrived.

[Braak]

I read somewhere that the NKPA has the largest SOF contingent in the world. I know most of it is akin to what we have in the Army Rangers (aka, big raids on airfields and the like) but the fact is, Japan is probably riddled with these folks, and I am sure some submarine delivered visitors arrived just before the tests. I think when all heck breaks loose, and I think it will soon, we're going to see the NK version of the old Soviet Spetsnaz go to work. God, I hope the Japanese are ready for that. I would not wish that on anyone.