Foreign Correspondence

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Japan plans to call China, North Korea key threats

The U.S. government has already cited China as the No. 1 threat to global security and now one of our chief allies is about to group China with North Korea as a chief threat.
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Little by little people will be conditioned to accept that the global war that Bush is leading us into is with China and that the ‘war on terror’ was only one aspect of this war.

It will be interesting to watch how they program people in the near future to allow for this ‘switch’ in primary adversaries.

-Am

Staff report
Japan will name North Korea and China as threats to its security in a new defense policy to be compiled next month, according to a draft the government presented Friday to the Liberal Democratic Party.
It is the first time Japan mentions specific nations as threats to its peace and stability. The current National Defense Program Outline, issued in 1995, merely states that uncertainty and unpredictability remain in areas surrounding Japan, including on the Korean Peninsula.

"North Korea's military moves are a grave destabilizing factor in the region," states the draft, presented to a security panel of the LDP.

"At the same time, Japan must pay close attention to China's modernization of its military and the expansion of its activities in the sea."

Japan is in dispute with China over ocean resources and over ownership of the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea. Earlier this month, a Chinese submarine briefly intruded into Japanese territorial waters off Okinawa, putting the Maritime Self-Defense Force on alert.

The draft also says the stability of the region stretching from the Middle East to East Asia is crucial to Japan's security. It says Japan must cooperate with other nations in keeping the region stable.

The Japan Times: Nov. 27, 2004
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