Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water again, The Japanese may soon be rewriting their Constitution. This is, of course, in response to the growing North Korean nuclear menace, and the issue of Japan building its own weapons as a defensive strategy.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=574&e=19&u=/nm/20040116/wl_nm/iraq_japan_constitution_dc_3

Well, Kim Jong "mentally" Il may have bitten off way more than he could chew. While the North Korean weapon probably looks like a 1930's washing machine grafted onto a Soviet tractor, you can bet the new Sony-class Japanese atomic bomb will have all the bells and whistles.

I think it will be really sleek looking. Sump'n like a cross between a 32" Vega and a very large Boom-box - and I mean with really BIG, earth shaking bass response. Unlike the kitchen timer fusing of the North Korean bomb, the Sony Nuke Man will have digital timers out the wazoo and a really cool ballistic delivery system built by Honda.

Those North Koreans will be so jealous. The Japanese model will be on display at the Tokyo Consumer Electronics Convention very soon. Yeah, sure as shit, the South Korean Samsung/KIA version will be out a year later with a hundred thousand dead Warranty.

for a fact that Kim Jong has even one nuke? He says this and that and he’s a big talker...but does he have the goods? Is it a ploy? A desperate attemp to fend off overwhelming negative reviews of his government and policies of fiscal idiocy?

I’m not worried about Japan having a military. I think they found out it’s easier and cheaper to take money from the capitalistic babies in the business place. They compete rather well with anyone in the business world. They don’t need a strong military.

They don’t need a strong military.

Really, Japan and Europe really don't need strong militaries. If they ever really need it you know who they are going to call.

Originally posted by Brainchild
for a fact that Kim Jong has even one nuke? He says this and that and he’s a big talker...but does he have the goods? Is it a ploy? A desperate attemp to fend off overwhelming negative reviews of his government and policies of fiscal idiocy?



You know, Saddam tried playing that game, posturing as if he had something; pulling our chain in the UN; calling our bluff. In the end, he had zero credibility in anything he said, so we threw the sucker out because we could not risk it.

Only now we realize it was all bull.

We really have no dog in the North Korean fight. It is strictly a local problem. If South Korea wants to cower under the threat of a nuke leveling Seoul, that is their problem, not ours. If Japan sees it as an imminent threat, they will deal with it by responding in kind; building their own weapons. If the North Koreans, in their infinite stupidity, decide to attack California with one of their own, we have 11,000 to send their way, wiping them off the face of the earth.

If you saw The Sum Of All Fears, you will realize we already can pin a radiologic signature to every nuclear reactor on earth. We would know where it came from, no matter who was responsible for the actual attack. All governments realize this as well. If the isotopes show an origin from Pakistan, or North Korea, or Russia, or Iran, the US response would be overwhelming, instantaneous and frightfully devastating, consisting of a retaliatory capability that would make Hiroshima look like a tupperware party.

MAD, mutually assured destruction, is an unspoken component of American foreign policy. If the nuke comes from you, you die, because we know where it came from.

I always find it curious why these little third-world tyrannts want to play the nuclear weapons game. They think owning a coupla nukes makes them a "super power". They think they can threaten us with one of these things. Hey Kim Jong "mentally" Il, can you spell M O R O N?