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Japan Orders Military To Strike Any New North Korea Missiles
jones_supa (887896) writes "Japan has ordered a destroyer in the Sea of Japan to strike any ballistic missiles that may be launched by North Korea in the coming weeks after Pyongyang fired a Rodong medium-range missile over the sea. Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera issued the order on Thursday, but did not make it public in order to avoid putting a chill on renewed talks between Tokyo and Pyongyang. The Rodong missile fell into the sea after flying 650 km, short of a maximum range thought to be some 1,300 km, which means it could reach Japan. Japanese Aegis destroyers in the Sea of Japan are equipped with advanced radar equipment able to track multiple targets and carry missiles designed to take out targets at the edge of space."
Living near North Korea is like living next door to a crazy man who walks outside and blasts away with a semi-auto rifle occasionally. Not aiming at you but just blazing away randomly while jibbering madly.
"Relax. It's North Korea, the nation-state equivalent of the short bus."
They haven't succeeded yet. It's a sign that Japanese missile defence is basically nonfunctional.
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If North Korea wants to provide Japan with some awesome real-world testing of missile defense systems, then so be it. The data to be gleaned from both successful and unsuccessful missile intercepts is invaluable, and Kim Jong-un is extremely ignorant to give his "enemies" such wonderful opportunities to fine tune their defenses against his small variety of missile assets.
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They haven't succeeded yet. It's a sign that Japanese missile defence is basically nonfunctional.
They haven't done it yet, it is a new policy that was just instated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... but which one? Anyone have anymore details?
Kim Jong Un is just throwing a temper-tantrum because Putin is getting all the attention right now, and how can North Korea be best Korea when it's not in the spotlight? Nothing worse in my opinion than a despotic dictator with little-dog-syndrome who is also a blatant attention whore. Meanwhile we got Putin trying to either re-form the Soviet Union, or trying to start World War III, or maybe both simultaneously. #FML.
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America has been prompting them to get back into the war industry so America can sell them bombs and fighter jets and things, also to help their economy. Sure, it will be bad for the people who die but it will be good for the Japanese GDP which has been stagnant for over a decade now.
Japanese Aegis destroyers in the Sea of Japan are equipped with advanced radar equipment able to track multiple targets and carry missiles designed to take out targets at the edge of space."
but cannot track a 777 over the ocean
They haven't succeeded yet. It's a sign that Japanese missile defence is basically nonfunctional.
They haven't done it yet, it is a new policy that was just instated.
Yes, which implies two things. Either A) It is a new policy, and the capability was always there, or B) They just got their shitty defense systems working well enough to hit one.
Doubtful you'll find the truth.
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Or we may find out pretty soon, twit.
They haven't succeeded yet.
I think that the main problem that are trying.
beta or not:
how to do missile testing even if the democratic plebs
decided to be pacifists?
call some "evil" guy in north korea: "Dude, launch some firework!"
Or we may find out pretty soon, twit.
And if the system works, you have no idea if it started working two days ago or two years ago, moron.
and you know this how? you're just making things up on the fly, with no real knowledge about what you're talking about. you contribute nothing to the conversation.
Just send a dozen mechas to North Korea.
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The Japanese did not say what the poster described. They simply said if a missile is aimed at or over Japan they reserve the right to shoot it down. They have posted a destroyer in the sea between Japan and North Korea for the purpose. The Reuters article actually says "a destroyer was dispatched to the Sea of Japan and will fire if North Korea launches a missile that Tokyo deems in danger of striking or falling on Japanese territory, the source said."
Onodera has avoided publicly announcing the new missile-intercept order so as not to put a chill on those talks, Japanese media said.
[about the order] the source told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Thank you very much anonymous source for betraying your country and make peace negations more difficult with an insane regime, that threatened many times a war against South Korea and to nuke Soul.
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Well, yeah - screw you. If NK actually believes they are a match for Japan, South Korea, the US, BK - that is crazy.
If NK does decide to open the crazy box further and attack, once the troops start rolling in after the cities are bombed to ruble, these so called troops of NK will surrender as soon as they figure out they do not have to be forced to fight for a mad man.
Desertion - seen it before. Country getting leveled - seen it before. Multi-national invasion - seen it before.
NK is not living in reality. As like every mad man, they will eventually crack up and make a mistake that can not be recovered from. Then, hello from all of us. The real problem is after the invasion (call it what it is), what to do with a huge population of people not allowed to be educated. That will cause more damage to local economies than the war for much longer (E/W Germany integration).
But the next generations will not have to live like that and don't have to hear out that shit-stain of a country. They can read about it - the crazy regime that tortured its own people - fell. And when they read it, they will see it like all the others - like it makes sense to do away with those.
That's the same system as the US uses on it's own ships, and it has already been proven to work, at least in tests. I would assume the Japanese version is at least as capable as the American one was a few years ago.
Yes, which implies two things. Either A) It is a new policy, and the capability was always there, or B) They just got their shitty defense systems working well enough to hit one.
Doubtful you'll find the truth.
They're Aegis destroyers, so it isn't "B".
The answer is "A"
The 3rd is they think the 'new kind of nuke test' is going to be like the two the US did in Japan
You have a kid with a inferiority complex who just doesn't know it yet who thinks he's entitled to rule the world because he's god. Why in the fuck did we ever let them build nukes? I'm not scared of them because they have no reliable delivery system, but still wtf? We could have ended this a long time ago with a couple targeted strikes. Why don't we? It's not like we care about getting involved in other nations business cough, Iraq, should have been Afghanistan, Saddam Insane had nothing to do with it, but he did have lots and lots of oil. If North Korea had plenty of that or another resource we want this would have been over a long ass time ago. Don't tell me it cannot be done because we can shove a missile up his ass give or take about 10 feet and destroy any bumbled launch on their part before they reach 500 feet.
Who suffers? Not the leaders, they're living the high life and the population pays for it because they're worthless lab rats forced to obey, actually I doubt that twisted fucker even thinks that highly of them.
The policy has been to shoot down any missiles that had a trajectory indicating they could hit somewhere on land. Up until now no missile launch has really done that. There was one that came extremely close about last year and since then the discussion has been weather or not to start shooting them down reguardless of trajectory or broaden the "acceptable" limits and start shooting down missiles that look like they could come close.
The actual defense systems in place are some of the most advanced anti-missile defense systems available, save for perhaps Iron Dome in Israel.
That "Sea of Japan" is being called "East Sea" by Chinese and Koreans for a very long time every since. Very foolish of westerners to have named it "Sea of Japan" without any reason (other than they were obsessed with Japan?) It is an east sea by many of countries around the sea!