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China-Japan-Koreas
Japan 'Could Deploy Troops in Korea in Emergency'
2011-01-05
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan raised hackles in Korea on Saturday by saying Tokyo will consider dispatching troops there to rescue Japanese citizens in case of an emergency. Kan told reporters his government will consult on the matter with the South Korean government and revise Japanese laws to allow the country's Self-Defense Force to engage in such rescue operations.
Oh that's just going to go over well in Beijing. Define 'rescue operations'...
The daily Tokyo Shimbun reported on Sunday that the Japanese government already sounded out to the Korean government the possibility of dispatching SDF transport aircraft and vessels to Seoul, Incheon and Busan to rescue around 28,000 Japanese citizens residing in Korea. But the daily said the Korean government rejected the proposal citing a potential public outrage among Koreans who may be reminded of the forced occupation of their country by the Japanese imperial military from 1910 to 1945.
If the Norks invade the people of the south will rapidly revise their opinion...
Seoul was also reportedly concerned that the consultation itself could give the impression that a war is imminent.
Perhaps because it is...
But Seoul denied knowledge of the plan. "Japan neither raised the issue nor discussed it with us," a Cheong Wa Dae official said. "We don't know in what context Kan made the comments."

Another Korean official said the dispatch abroad of Japanese troops "is a matter of controversy even within Japan" and the remarks "were almost totally unexpected." He added the comments "appear rather imprudent considering they came from the Japanese leader and concerned sensitive national security issues."
So his timing was a little off...
Posted by:Steve White

#3  IMO the real LT question for the US STATE DEPT. + INTEL is what might or will NORTH KOREA = KIMMIE + REGIME BOYZ do to threaten NIPPON CITIZENS-NATIONALS on the Korean Peninula???

Again, IMO CHINA is unlikley to accept INTER-KOREAN MERGER + RE-UNIFICATION UNLESS US MILFORS ARE WITHDRAWN FROM SOUTH KOREA + LIKELY THE WHOLE OF NE ASIA. + PORTS RIGHTS IN SAME + BOTH SOOUTH KOREA + JAPAN AGREE NOT TO DEV NUCLEAR ARSENALS THAT CAN BE USED AGZ CHINA.

"RISING CHINA " can wait for a formal US-Allied response to the above - ITS DUBIOUS IFF STARVING NORTH KOREA CAN DO SAME WIDOUT CATASTROPHICALLY COMPROMISING = CHANGING ITS ETHNO-NATIONALIST CONCEPT OF "NORTH KOREA FOR NORTH KOREANS/
KOREANS"???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-01-05 20:12  

#2  It is important to change the Korean mental paradigm about the Japanese, which is a long process.

If the Japanese don't go into the situation thinking of the Koreans as equal, respecting the Koreans having made the same by-their-bootstraps climb Japan made, Japanese hauteur will be noticed and resented. A good first step would be to make equal the Koreans living as very second-class citizens in Japan, despite having been there for generations. Koreans resent Japan not only for the invasion in World War II, but for their ongoing bigotry.
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-01-05 12:00  

#1  A little bluntness is good as an icebreaker. However, it would serve the Japanese to start a friendship campaign with the Koreans, providing all sorts of non-military goodies to a disadvantaged, but sympathetic to Koreans segment of Korean society.

It is important to change the Korean mental paradigm about the Japanese, which is a long process.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2011-01-05 08:41  

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