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| NKorea says Japan on verge of having nuclear weapons |
| 2004-05-10 |
| North Korea Saturday claimed Japan was about to possess nuclear weapons, in its latest attack on one of the countries preparing to meet next week to discuss the impasse over Pyongyang’s own atomic ambitions.The report on North Korea’s state news agency KCNA charged that Japan had secretly pursued a nuclear capability while the world’s focus was on other countries’ arms proliferation. Since Japan is one of the most stable of all Asian economies, I’ll continue to remain a lot more worried about some wingnut like Kim playing with matches in a powder magazine. "Japan’s nuclear weaponization has been pushed ahead at the phase of practical implementation, going beyond the stage of discussion," the report said. "As a result, there are ample conditions for the descendents of Samurais buoyed by fever for reinvasion to have access to nuclear weapons any moment." Preliminary negotiations take place next week in Beijing aimed at clearing the way for a new round of six-nation discussions on the issue of Pygongyang’s alleged nuclear weapons programme. If there was one single driving factor that inspired Japan to begin construction of nuclear weapons, it was the overflight of North Korea’s Taepo-Dong One missile test immediately prior to South Korea’s presidental inauguration. Two rounds of the talks -- involving the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia and the United States -- have so far failed to narrow differences between the United States and North Korea. Japan, the only country in the world to have experienced a nuclear attack, has a number of nuclear power stations but is a signatory to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. However, the KCNA report added: "It is a serious miscalculation and foolish dream if Japan thinks it can hide truth behind its nuclear issue and achieve its wild ambition for nuclear armament by hyping other’s ’nuclear issue’." POT -> KETTLE -> BLACK Japan and North Korea last week renewed talks over the kidnapping of Japanese citizens by the Stalinist state in the 1970s and 1980s. Tokyo has been pushing Pyongyang to allow the relatives of five returned Japanese abductees to settle in Japan. |
| Posted by:Zenster |
| #6 the descendents of Samurais buoyed by fever for reinvasion Only a North Korean propagandist could be delusional enough to think that any nation would be dumb enough to want to be saddled with a nation of brainwashed, starving dwarves. There's certainly nothing in North Korea to compensate for the sheer pain in the ass of dealing with the North Koreans. |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-05-10 11:17:55 PM |
| #5 Japan a nuclear power. I like it. And it would drive the Chinese and NorKs nuts. :-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-05-10 11:08:43 PM |
| #4 Japan doesn't need our help. They can build several hundred plutonium bombs in a few months with just the 'wastage' from their spent fuel reprocessing. |
| Posted by: Wilbur 2004-05-10 10:12:44 PM |
| #3 Hell with the 'tech' and sheer industreal power Japan has she can hardly help but to be a few inches from having nuclear capability. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-05-10 10:10:36 PM |
| #2 I'm with you, Frank. I think it's about time we "sold" some nukes to Japan. I'm not so sure about Taiwan, however, since I think they are overrun with spies from Red China. There, I have no problem with us having a carrier battle group on patrol in the region. |
| Posted by: Tibor 2004-05-10 10:07:30 PM |
| #1 a nuclear Japan would be a nice counter-weight, no? How about Taiwan, you want some too? Hey, China, about that Laissez-Faire attitude towards your chihuaha Kimmy..... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-10 9:49:36 PM |