Japanese and Koreans invaded Asia. We apologize.

North Korea-US war now 'a real possibility

2017年09月29日 03時08分53秒 | Weblog
the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi)
英国王立防衛安全保障研究所





A war between North Korea and the US is now a “real possibility”, and would likely result in thousands of people being killed or injured, a respected defence think tank has warned.

War between the two countries would likely involve a full scale invasion of North Korea, and combat would be neither “surgical nor short”, the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) said in a report.

In the event of an attack by either country, the UK would only have a few hours “at most” to decide how to respond, it adds.



The disturbing analysis, written by Rusi director general Malcolm Chalmers, says a war could be triggered by either Washington or Pyongyang, but it warns there is a growing risk action could be taken by Donald Trump to “resolve” the issue “sooner rather than later”.

War is now a real possibility,” the report states. “With North Korea making rapid progress in its missile and nuclear programmes, time is not on diplomacy's side.”


The Rusi report sets out a number of ways a war could be started.



It says these could include a pre-emptive strike by Pyongyang if it believed the US was planning a surprise attack.

Washington could be provoked into an assault if North Korean test missiles were fired into the ocean near California or Guam, an American territory, it said.

An outbreak of war would be likely to involve an early large-scale US-led air and cyber offensive, the report said.

This scenario would likely provoke retaliation by Pyongyang against South Korea - where around 8,000 Britons live.

American bases in the region would also be a target, and Mr Kim’s regime would probably use conventional, chemical or possibly nuclear weapons.

That would mean a full-scale invasion of North Korea would be highly likely, the report said.

Though Pyongyang is known to have developed its nuclear technology faster than previously thought, even without the use of nuclear weapons, the casualties would likely reach into the hundreds of thousands, the report says.

A war would also have “far-reaching consequences” for the global economy.

Should the US launch a “preventive strike” on North Korea without South Korea's agreement, it would send a signal that Washington was willing to “sacrifice Seoul to protect New York”.

The report calls on the UK government to continue work to intensify international sanctions on North Korea and to support efforts to find a diplomatic solution.

The UK government must also urge the US to rule out preventative strikes and begin preparations for a range of military scenarios, the report says.

However, it adds the UK should not give the US unconditional support should Washington launch a surprise attack on North Korea, and said London must listen to South Korea and Japan.



米朝間の戦争が現実味を増してきた、と。
北朝鮮が核ミサイル開発が急速に進展しているなか、外交での解決は困難になってきている、と。

アメリカが奇襲を仕掛けるとみて、北朝鮮が先制攻撃するかもしれないし、北朝鮮がカリフォルニア、グアムなど米国の領域近傍に実験ミサイルを打ち込んだことをきっかけにアメリカが手をだすかもしれない、と。

戦争が始まれば、アメリカが大々的な空襲とサイバー攻撃ーそうなると北朝鮮は韓国に反撃にでるだろう、と。地域の米軍基地も標的になり、通常兵器、化学兵器を使うだろうし、核兵器を使う可能性もあろう、と。

戦争になったら、国際的な経済に与える影響は大きく、また、万が一でも、韓国の同意なしに、アメリカが先制攻撃したら、アメリカはニューヨークを守るためにソウルを犠牲にしたのだな、と思われるのではないか、と。

外交的に解決できるようにイギリス政府は国際的制裁が強化されるように努力すべきだし、アメリカに対しては先制攻撃はやめるように働きかけ、それ以外の軍事シナリオの準備しておくべきだ、と。

また、イギリス政府はアメリカを無条件に支持すべきではなく、日韓の言い分にも耳を傾けるべきだ、と 英国王立防衛安全保障研究所。


(三浦、木村)









ハーフの悩み

2017年09月28日 15時39分42秒 | Weblog

「ハーフ」はカテゴリーの一つにすぎません。たまたま異なる人種や国籍を持つ両親のもとに生まれたという、たったそれだけの共通項があるだけです。すべてのハーフが語学が堪能なわけでも、すべてのハーフが美形なわけでも、すべてのハーフが海外経験が豊富なわけでもないのです。


まず、より多くの人達が、彼らはこういう悩みや苦しみを抱えているんだ、と知ることが大事。

可能性でいえば、12月から翌年2月あたり

2017年09月28日 15時37分20秒 | Weblog
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田原総一朗2017年09月28日 08:08安倍首相が「大義なき」解散という賭けに出た理由とは?


ひょっとしたら、安倍首相には、「大義」があるのかもしれない。

安倍首相は、アメリカが北朝鮮に武力行使を行なうかもしれないと考え、不安を抱いているのではないか。僕には、そう思えてならない。

もしアメリカが、北朝鮮に武力行使するとしたら、いつになるか。11月に予定されている、トランプ大統領と習近平主席の会談の後ではないかと、僕は思っている。可能性でいえば、12月から翌年2月あたりが高い。



South Korea soldier: ‘Criminal because I’m gay’

2017年09月28日 15時23分18秒 | Weblog


Homosexual activity is illegal in the army in South Korea, and the country still has conscription, meaning that all men will have to serve in the army for some point.


In June this year, it emerged that 32 South Korean soldiers had been charged in what was described as a “witch hunt” against gay men and those thought to be gay.
One soldier was given a suspended prison sentence after being found guilty for having sex with another male soldier.



韓国軍では、同性愛行為は犯罪で、32人の兵士が告発されており、一人は有罪で、執行猶予つき懲役刑で処断された、と。

そういえば、文在寅大統領も、



同性愛反対と発言して批判されていたが、そんな人が人権弁護士だった、といえるのかどうか?




韓国大統領の民族主義的傾向を勘案すれば 西村氏が、元人権弁護士として、世界で評価されるみたいなもんじゃないの?



Australia in the firing line of nuclear war between North Korea and the US

2017年09月28日 13時48分54秒 | Weblog


Retired Major General Jim Molan said nations are planning and preparing for nuclear war, and emphasised the difficulty of defending Australia from attack.

'Can we protect ourselves by a ballistic missile defence system? Well, it's very very difficult and fabulously expensive,' he said.


豪州も北朝鮮の射程の範囲内で、仮に、核攻撃されたら迎撃するのは難しいし、途方もない費用がかかる、と。


Korea has not faced the darker parts of its past

2017年09月28日 13時18分00秒 | Weblog
When History’s Losers Write the Story
By SABRINA TAVERNISESEPT. 15, 2017




Russia has not faced the darker parts of its past, something I spent a lot of time thinking about as a correspondent there. But my own country has memory problems, too. Take the Civil War. Historians tell us it was fought over slavery. But an entirely different version unspooled last month at an Applebee’s in Delaware.

“It’s too simplified to say the war was over slavery,” said Jeffrey Plummer, head of a local chapter of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans. “That’s what’s been taught in the schools, but there’s more to it.”

Selective memory, it seems, is a global phenomenon. Think of Turkey and its blank spot where the Armenian genocide should be. Or Japan with its squeamishness about its aggression and mass murder in China. It starts as a basic human impulse to take the sting out of defeat or to avoid admitting some atrocity. But it’s also a way to help cope with a difficult present. And like a growth on a tree ring, it can keep the past off-kilter until some future generation is brave enough to right it.


“In most countries you are more likely to get evasion and nationalistic versions of history than tough grappling with the darker parts of your past, and the U.S. is no exception,” said Gary Bass, a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton.

In the United States, the Civil War remains “the most divisive and unresolved experience Americans have ever had,” according to David Blight, a historian at Yale. “The Civil War is like a sleeping dragon. If you poke it hard enough, it will raise its head and breathe fire.”

That is, in part, because the loser was allowed its own interpretation. The South, facing catastrophic loss of life and mass destruction on a European scale, wrote its own history of the war. It cast itself as an underdog overwhelmed by the North’s superior numbers, but whose cause — a noble fight for states’ rights — was just. The North looked the other way. Northern elites were more interested in re-establishing economic ties than in keeping their commitments to blacks’ constitutional rights. The political will to complete Reconstruction died.



The argument over Confederate monuments has surprised historians like Dr. Blight, who has studied the war for decades. It is a moment for public education like no other, but with risks. When history’s losers get to define the story, it can create rifts — with allies, with adversaries or even with our fellow citizens. But so can a sudden, emotional rush to rectify it. Historians say the Confederate statues should be removed slowly, with deliberation, not destroyed in the middle of the night.

“This sudden, almost rage to get rid of monuments kind of violates our instincts as historians,” he said. “Be careful, slow down. If they are taken down, let’s preserve and curate them. These are part of our historical landscape. To just destroy them is not educational.”


どこでも敗者は、歴史を自分たちに都合のいいように書き換えたがるものだが、だからといって、南軍の英雄の像を除去するように、歴史から消去してしまうのもまずいのではないか、と。

敗者といえば、アフガンでのソ連、ベトナムでのアメリカも敗者で、


Photo: Patrick Christain/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
KEN BURNS SAYS THE VIETNAM WAR WAS “BEGUN IN GOOD FAITH.” SO WAS EVERY OTHER LOUSY WAR.
Jon Schwarz
September 24 2017, 9:00 p.m.



From that point forward, the Soviet attack on Afghanistan went pretty much like the American attack on Vietnam: carpet bombing, tons of napalm, widespread rape, countless massacres of civilians. Just as in Vietnam, we have only the vaguest sense of how many people were killed, because no one with power was counting.


THE UPCOMING FINAL episode of Ken Burns’s “Vietnam War” will end with its narrator — after repeated revisions by Burns and Novick, to be sure they were expressing themselves precisely — coming to the following conclusion: “The Vietnam War was a tragedy, immeasurable and irredeemable.”

So despite the voluminous evidence the series provides, it turns out the Vietnam War was not a crime, nor malefaction, nor an abomination. It was merely a tragedy, as the directors also say twice in a New York Times op-ed.


やはり、歴史を美化している、と。

(歴史問題)

ただ、歴史を洗浄しているのは、敗者だけでなく勝者、その他の国々も同じであって、韓国のように、他国の慰安婦問題については、執拗に、非難して、自国の慰安婦問題についてガン無視するという狂気もある。

それに対して、馬鹿の一つ覚えの対応しかできない日本の右翼も悲しいが・・・







麻生氏 「大年増の厚化粧では希望もてない」と・・・・・・虚報新聞

2017年09月28日 12時26分54秒 | Weblog


政策がわからないのに、なぜか、期待感は大きい。

自民党にうんざりの人たちが受け皿をもとめていたのかもしれない。





志位氏は「この動きには『希望』がないと思います。だいたい、顔ぶれは、自民党政治の中枢にいた人、民進党から野党共闘に反対して出た人、ウルトラ右翼の人です。憲法改定を宣言し、安保法制を容認するという。これでは自民党と同じです。自民党に代わる旗印はありません」ときっぱり断じました。


共産党がもう少ししっかりしてくれればなあ。



2017.9.28 12:09
【衆院解散】
民進「解党」に野党側は右往左往 自公は全員当選へ気勢




産経は、やっぱ、自民党か。




立ち位置によって見方は随分かわってくる。

麻生氏 「大年増の厚化粧では希望もてない」・・・・・・とかいう虚報新聞の見出しはでないのかしら。



自民党の受け皿に希望の党がなる可能性はある。

2017年09月28日 00時28分36秒 | Weblog
小田嶋隆‏
@tako_ashi


あらためて振り返って見るに「しがらみのない政治」も「AIが決めました」も「アウフヘーベン」も「日本をリセット」も、要するに「あたしは細かい説明はしません」という以上の意味はないわけで、要するにこの人はキャッチフレーズを連発するだけで、何も説明していないのだな。


そうなんだけど、都の選挙のときと同じで、自民党にお灸をすえよう、自民党 ☓ でも、野党も ✘ で、都民ファースト ? でペケを避けて未知に受け皿として票がいく可能性はある。