Japan may have no choice but to shoot down the next North Korean missile test

moon2012 said:
The NK launch was legal. Its ceiling was 350 miles over Japan. Somebody is trying to take us to war over a legal launch - and it ain't the South Koreans
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we are way past that to the idea NK's ICBMs are an existential threat to it's neighbors and the US.
The United States has also been conducting joint exercises with Japanese forces for the past two weeks- forget supposed "legalities"
 
anatta said:
(The long-range strategic ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 (Mars-12) is launched during a testThomson Reuters)

After North Korea overflew Japan with a missile launch early Tuesday, the island nation may have no choice but to knock down any further missile launches or learn to live with such provocations.

North Korea has reached a point in its missile development where it can no longer simply fire missiles straight up in the sky as it has in the past. To continue to learn and advance, North Korea must now start firing its long-range missiles on realistic trajectories, which, due to geography, means overflying its neighbors.

"This ballistic missile launch appeared to fly over our territory. It is an unprecedented, serious and grave threat to our nation," a top Japanese government spokesman told Reuters.

"We will make utmost efforts to firmly protect the lives of the people," Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told Reuters.

North Korea's missile launch Tuesday morning local time doesn't just threaten the safety of Japanese people, it also serves as a direct military provocation. The US and South Korea are currently holding a military exercise, and the US and Japan just completed Northern Viper, a military drill of their own.


Additionally, Japan had just completed a test of its Patriot Advanced Capability III missile defense system before the launch, the New York Times' Mokoto Rich reports.

The US and Japan both field Aegis-radar equipped guided-missile destroyers in their navies, and they both come armed to the teeth with SM-3 missile interceptors. With the ships in the right place at the right time, the US or Japan could likely knock out some North Korean missile fires, which would keep Pyongyang from gathering important data from the later stages of the launch.

But more important than thwarting North Korean missile tests would be sending the message that Japan won't stand for these dangerous provocations.

"NK missile flight over Japan is an Archimedean point for the US," Tal Inbar, the head of the space research center at the Fisher Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies tweeted atfer the launch. "No REAL ACTION - and we will see more missiles on the same path soon."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-fires-missile-over-japan-sharply-escalating-005658347.html
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I thought Drumpf was sending an Armada??
 
noise said:
we are way past that to the idea NK's ICBMs are an existential threat to it's neighbors and the US.
The United States has also been conducting joint exercises with Japanese forces for the past two weeks- forget supposed "legalities"
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Sorry, but no. Dump the law and we're all fucked. Those in power would quickly have us behaving like North Korean news announcers.
The law must be respected particularly when it doesn't suit your own interests.
 
moon2012 said:
Sorry, but no. Dump the law and we're all fucked. Those in power would quickly have us behaving like North Korean news announcers.
The law must be respected particularly when it doesn't suit your own interests.
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Did you ever find the articles supporting your claim of the US flying over North Korea, on a daily basis??
 
Cypress said:
I thought Drumpf was sending an Armada??
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This is the new strategy. He issues waves of aggressive rhetoric which keep the tub-thumpers and xenophobes happy until they forget what they were cheering for.
It seems to be working. Very few Americans have been killed overseas since he took office. Billary would have been at war with Iran already- and its allies- and Asia would be radio-active.
If you rate presidents according to numbers of deceased American service personnel Trump's doing pretty good.
Sure, he's a hypocrite- nothing out of the ordinary there.
 
moon2012 said:
This is the new strategy. He issues waves of aggressive rhetoric which keep the tub-thumpers and xenophobes happy until they forget what they were cheering for.
It seems to be working. Very few Americans have been killed overseas since he took office. Billary would have been at war with Iran already- and its allies- and Asia would be radio-active.
If you rate presidents according to numbers of deceased American service personnel Trump's doing pretty good.
Sure, he's a hypocrite- nothing out of the ordinary there.
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On that measure then Lincoln was the worst ever, which I can agree with.
 
moon2012 said:
Isn't it time you made another name-change, maggot ? Not that that in any way compensates for the trail of crap you leave here.
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How's that search for the support of your asinine comment of the US flying planes over North Korea, on a daily basis, coming along??

:dealwithit:
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
Did you ever find the articles supporting your claim of the US flying over North Korea, on a daily basis??
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Let's silence your pathetic bleating, shall we. Now then- with regard to the facts of US intrusion into North Korean airspace can the high-altitude surveillance missions be included as intrusions ?
 
moon2012 said:
Let's silence your pathetic bleating, shall we. Now then- with regard to the facts of US intrusion into North Korean airspace can the high-altitude surveillance missions be included as intrusions ?
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It must be really embarrassing to make such a definitive statement, that the US is flying bombers and surveillance planes over North Korea daily, and then to have to sit there with egg all over your face. :D

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