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The tension on the Korean peninsula is maintained due to the active development of the DPRK nuclear missile program, as well as the US-South Korean military maneuvers. In July 2017, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea twice tested ballistic missiles, on August 29 and September 15, carried out two more rocket launches that flew over the territory of Japan, and on September 3 announced a successful hydrogen charge test. The UN Security Council sharply tightened the regime of international sanctions against the DPRK regarding this.
US President Donald Trump promised that Washington would no longer tolerate the provocative actions of the DPRK. He said this at a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on November 6.
"The conduct of forbidden nuclear tests and missile launches that fly over Japan threaten the safety of civilians. The United States will no longer tolerate such behavior of North Korea, "said Donald Trump.
According to Trump, Washington and Tokyo are working closely together to "confront the dangerous aggression of the North Korean regime." The American president noted that Japan would be able to shoot down DPRK missiles when it completed the purchase of new weapons from the United States.
The United States continues to militarize the region with such actions, provoking a nuclear conflict. It is worth noting that in the case of the deployment of US anti-missile weapons, Japan risks becoming a priority target for North Korean missiles. It is interesting that Japan will spend its budget funds to become a nuclear shield for the United States.
The US Congress prepared a report in which it calculated the possible casualties from the first days of the war with the DPRK. According to experts, 300 thousand people may die in the first days of the conflict.
Specialists note that the report did not calculate the option with the use of nuclear weapons. It was only about the use of conventional weapons. The reporters rely on data according to which the artillery of North Korea can produce up to 10 thousand shells per minute.
Obviously, in the case of a nuclear strike, the victims will be many times larger, and the peaceful population of Japan and South Korea will suffer first. Thus, although the United States has promoted itself as the main ally and defender of these two countries, they serve the United States as "cannon fodder" in the fight against the DPRK.
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The United States continues to militarize the region with such actions, provoking a nuclear conflict. It is worth noting that in the case of the deployment of US anti-missile weapons, Japan risks becoming a priority target for North Korean missiles. It is interesting that Japan will spend its budget funds to become a nuclear shield for the United States.


In the past few months, North Korean missiles flew over Japan several times and Japan is North Korea's primal target. Japan has nothing to lose by betting on Trump's tough action on North Korea. It was President Reagan's tough rhetoric that softened the Kremlin in the 1980s. We can only achieve peace through strength, not by a piece of paper.

Obviously, in the case of a nuclear strike, the victims will be many times larger, and the peaceful population of Japan and South Korea will suffer first.


We need to make North Korea understand that provoking Trump is very dangerous and Pyongyang could be flattened by a nuclear weapon in the worst case scenario. The concept of nuclear deterrence holds that nuclear weapons are intended to deter other states from initiating nuclear attacks with the promise of retaliation and mutually assured destruction (MAD).
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Its funny you should mention that Heisenberg. Only yesterday I was literally forced to watch this YouTube thing called “There are no Forrests” and it theorizes that there were once gigantic trees, silicon trees or something and that they have all been chopped down by machines. My first thought was - The Japanese done it :lol:
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Both. The thing about puppetry: you do not use it too often. When people start to realize they have no sovereignty, revanchism slowly grows, some grumpy men start to ask questions from its weak-willed government and the next thing you see Czechoslovakia is occupied, Poland is occupied, Hitler prepares to cross La-Manche and sends demolition teams into New York. The lesson WWII taught us all is you use your political influence very rarely and only for very significant things.

Now, the president Trump is almost a living political dead with his rights restricted, almost isolated from domestic affairs and under a constant threat of impeachment. His political survival, the chances to remain as a president until the next elections and (ideally) to become a POTUS again depend on the successes of his administration in foreign politics. He desperately needs a short, easy and victorious war. The practice shows there are two spots, painful problems for the whole world society and solving any of it will guarantee Trump's support. It's Syrian civil war and simple existence of DPRK. We see movements in both directions but Syria is Syria and its clusterfuck repeatedly refuses to solve itself. As we see, the DPRK knot goes much more smoothly, the tension increases with every day. The ideal would be if DPRK nukes Japan (doubtfully it has means of delivery to nuke the US anyway) continued by American invasion and destruction of Kim regime.

So while we lived in a world where Japan was an ally of the US right now it's its puppet because the bets are exactly that high to activate these hidden tools of submission.
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Japan can leave the alliance with America, but only if there is a systemic failure in Japan. Iran was another US aligned country until 1979 and it was similary impossible for it to end its alignment with Washington. However the poor living conditions and state oppression resulted in systemic failure, the culmination of which was the revolution. If Japan is going to stop being an ally of the US it would require a systemic failure, in other words economic collapse. While people live well they are not going to want to change the established order. At one point in time the Japanese Communist Party was very active and still is today. I think that the Japanese communists could have gained a lot of support in the case of systemic failure.
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Political Interest wrote:Japan can leave the alliance with America, but only if there is a systemic failure in Japan. Iran was another US aligned country until 1979 and it was similary impossible for it to end its alignment with Washington. However the poor living conditions and state oppression resulted in systemic failure, the culmination of which was the revolution. If Japan is going to stop being an ally of the US it would require a systemic failure, in other words economic collapse. While people live well they are not going to want to change the established order. At one point in time the Japanese Communist Party was very active and still is today. I think that the Japanese communists could have gained a lot of support in the case of systemic failure.


I can see all sorts of different possibilities.

Thing is though, it doesn’t suit Japan at this point in time to reject the alliance with America.

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