"This regime has signaled its contempt for its neighbors, for all members of the United Nations, and for minimum standards of acceptable international behavior," Trump said.
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"Threatening and destabilizing actions only increase the North Korean regime’s isolation in the region and among all nations of the world. All options are on the table."
North Korea is reportedly forcing middle school kids to sign petitions for enlistment into the military as the threat of war looms just over the horizon.
“I will volunteer to join the People’s Army to protect my country,” reads the petition that authorities are coercing young North Koreans to sign, reports Daily NK, citing sources in country. The North has been pressuring its youth, from middle school to university, to sign up for battle.
“Youth from all over the country and university students have submitted petitions for enrollment or reenlistment, and even 15-year-old students are signing the forms,” a source in Ryanggang Province recently told Daily NK,”The petitions are being signed under forcible and coercive pressure from the North Korean authorities.”
ちょっと不正確かもしれないけど作ってみました。
日本の領海、領空には全く関係ありません(領空は大気圏まで)
South Korea has threatened to 'exterminate' North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un if he continues to risk the safety of its population, as Seoul responded to this morning's ballistic missile launch over Japan.
North Korea fired a ballistic missile over northern Japan today in the most serious escalation yet of its nuclear stand-off with the West.
Within hours, South Korea had responded by bombing a shooting range near its border to the North as part of a military drill, launching footage which contained a stern warning to Kim Jong-Un
'If North Korea threatens the security of the South Korean people and the South Korea-US alliance with their nuclear weapons and missiles our air forces will exterminate the leadership of North Korea with our strong strike capabilities,' South Korean Colonel Lee Kuk-no warned in the video.
A statement from Seoul later on Tuesday echoed this sentiment, saying South Korea is 'fully ready for any threat from the North'.
'We strongly condemn the North's yet another provocation despite a grave message sent through Resolution 2371 adopted by the international community in the wake of its repeated strategic provocations,' the government said in a statement punlished by Yonhap news.
'We are fully ready for any threat from the North and will make unwavering efforts to protect the lives of our people and the security of our nation,' it said.
The South Korea air force on Tuesday sent four F-15K fighter jets to bomb simulated targets near the inter-Korean border, in a response to a test by North Korea of a ballistic missile earlier in the day.
The Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) said in a written statement that they had “reaffirmed the reaction capability of the air force to raze the enemy’s leadership in case of emergency.”
“If North Korea threatens the security of our people and the ROK – U.S. alliance with nuclear weapons and missiles, we will wipe out the North Korean leadership with our air force’s strong capability to strike [their targets],” Major Lee Guk-no, who directed the exercise, said.
President Moon Jae-in on Tuesday ordered the South Korean military to display its “powerful capability to punish North Korea,” the Blue House announced.
“In accordance with [Moon’s statement], four F-15K fighter jets of our air force staged drills dropping eight Mark 84 bombs at Pilsung Shooting Range in Taebaek at around 0920 KST this morning.”
The Pilsung Shooting Range is located in Gangwon Province near the inter-Korean border
President Donald Trump fully supports President Moon Jae-in’s North Korea policy and the South Korean government’s countermeasures against North Korean provocations,” McMaster said in a statement released by the Blue House.
Its effort to produce material for nuclear bombs, however, has rumbled on, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in a report to its annual general conference. The IAEA does not have access to North Korea and monitors its activities mainly by satellite imagery.
“There were indications in the LWR (light-water reactor) construction yard of an increase in activities consistent with the fabrication of certain reactor components,” the IAEA report posted on the General Conference’s website said.
The right stuff
Clearly both hawkish and dovish moves are necessary. On the hawkish side, a military buildup beyond what the US currently offers the region will probably become necessary. The ability to strike North Korean nuclear facilities and missile sites, upgraded intelligence, and perhaps even a nuclear deterrent of Japan and South Korea’s own may become necessary.
Developing nuclear capabilities has long been a taboo both in Japan and South Korea, but it is steadily gathering acceptance and momentum.
These capabilities will be necessary to serve as deterrents on their own right. But, more importantly, they may draw out meaningful action from the US.
Before his election, Trump criticised the US’ Northeast Asian allies as “free riders”. The introduction of more hawkish policies towards North Korea from Seoul and Tokyo may regain the confidence of the US and its public.
正しい行動
強硬な動きと穏健な動きの両方が必要だ。強硬面では、北朝鮮周辺でアメリカが持つ軍事力の増強が必要だろう。北朝鮮の核施設やミサイル基地を狙った攻撃能力や、情報機関の格上げ、さらに日本と韓国が独自の核抑止力を持つことすら必要になるかもしれない。
日本でも韓国でも、核攻撃能力の開発は長年タブーとされてきたが、それを容認する声は着実に増している。
核攻撃能力は、日本と韓国が独自に抑止力を持つために必要だろう。さらに重要なことに、それによってアメリカから有意義な行動を引き出せる可能性もある。
トランプは2016年の米大統領選前、北東アジアの同盟国はアメリカの安保に「ただ乗り」していると批判していた。韓国と日本がより強硬な対北朝鮮政策を導入すれば、米政府や米国民から信頼を取り戻せるかもしれない。
アメリカが北朝鮮を攻撃する可能性はない、あっても１－２％
【軍事化する日本】北朝鮮のミサイルが北海道の一部上空を通過して１２００kmも離れた太平洋に落下。テレビは「国民保護に関する情報」と称して北海道から関東甲信越まで「頑丈な建物に避難せよ」と、まるで戦時中の「空襲警報」を一斉に流す。北朝鮮も怖いが、「戦時放送」を流す安倍政権も怖い。
14:53 - 2017年8月28日
