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SNA Feature Article: "Shinzo Abe’s Diplomatic Isolation on North Korea" by Tom Fowdy
Shinzo Abe’s Diplomatic Isolation on North Korea
JAN 22, 2019by TOM FOWDYin INTERNATIONAL
But Abe has no one to blame but himself. Having wagered on a North Korea policy which had relied solely upon confrontation, maximum pressure, and the escalation of threat perceptions for domestic political gain, Abe snubbed the early talks and allowed South Korea on its own to take the initiative.
「北朝鮮が真剣に対話に応じるよう圧力をかけていくことが必要だ」
「北朝鮮は軍事力を誇示しているが、外交努力を通じて平和を守ることが重要だ」と強調。その上で「同時に、『対話のための対話』では意味がない。米国や韓国と緊密に連携しつつ、中国に対し、さらに大きな役割を果たすよう働きかけていく」
Abe says it is important to keep peace through diplomacy despite the military threat from North Korea. He says we need to put pressure on North Korea to start a serious dialogue. He also says Japan will work closely with the U.S. and South Korea to make China play a bigger role.
For Abe, the North Korean threat was a useful weapon in his campaign for revising the country’s pacifist constitution and a remilitarization of Japan with the ultimate target of China in mind.
LOL.
Article 9. Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes.
In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.
As it is, many scholars argue that the Self-Defence Army is unconstitutional.
Abe’s intention to revise the article 9 is to make it clear that SDF is not unconstitutional。
さらに、「世論調査でも『自衛隊は合憲』と言い切る憲法学者は２割にとどまり、多くの教科書に『合憲性に議論がある』との記述がある」と述べ、憲法への明記の意義を訴えた。「自衛隊の存在が憲法に明記されることによって任務や権限に変更が生じることはない」とも強調した。
Abe and his government had sought to depict the situation with Pyongyang as an existential crisis, especially throughout 2017, using North Korea’s missile tests and nuclear weapons development as evidence that the regime would randomly, irrationally, and preemptively strike Japanese cities
But North Korea, in fact, is threatening.
North Korea fires second ballistic missile over Japan
15 September 2017
"No one knows when the touch-and-go situation will lead to a nuclear war, but if so, the Japanese archipelago will be engulfed in flames in a moment. This is too self-evident."
Imagine that the U.S. get the same threat with a missile fired over its homeland. Is it not an existential crisis?
The Abe government even resorted to various stunts to alarm and terrify the Japanese public. This included suspending service on the Tokyo Metro and other trains when a missile was launched and what appeared to be a cynical use of the national J-Alert system and other public defense drills.
東京メトロ、ミサイル報道で地下鉄ストップの勇み足認める－不安煽るメディアにも自制が必要
Abe didn't suspend the service. Tokyo Metro stopped it on its own own judgment.
I don't know what cynical use of J Alert he is talking about.
It was at this point that Abe made his most serious miscalculation, believing that the Trump administration would continue to back his unbending policy of maximum pressure and no compromise, rather than accept the rapidly developing peace initiatives from Pyongyang and Seoul. Instead, the opposite occurred.
But there has been no sanciotion relief since then.
Pompeo: No sanctions relief for North Korea until complete denuclearization
By Ben Westcott, Jungeun Kim and Jennifer Hauser, CNN
Updated 0533 GMT (1333 HKT) June 14, 2018
That's why
North Korea Threatens to Resume Nuclear Work Without Sanctions
The prime minister on the whole had offered nothing but demands, hyperbole, and obstacles, but never any positive initiative that might push peace forward.
【日中韓首脳会談】安倍晋三首相「北朝鮮が正しい道歩めば日朝国交正常化目指す」
2018.5.9 12:05
「拉致、核、ミサイルの諸懸案を総括的に解決し、正しい道を歩むのであれば、日朝平壌宣言に基づき、不幸な過去を清算し、国交正常化を目指す。これがわが国の一貫した立場だ
Abe has a lot to offer.
Japan-DPRK Pyongyang Declaration
Both sides shared the recognition that, providing economic co-operation after the normalization by the Japanese side to the DPRK side, including grant aids, long-term loans with low interest rates and such assistances as humanitarian assistance through international organizations, over a period of time deemed appropriate by both sides, and providing other loans and credits by such financial institutions as the Japan Bank for International Co-operation with a view to supporting private economic activities, would be consistent with the spirit of this Declaration, and decided that they would sincerely discuss the specific scales and contents of the economic co-operation in the normalization talks.
2019/01/18 20:01
【萬物相】日本周辺に配備される英仏海軍艦艇
北朝鮮に対する制裁という観点からすれば歓迎すべきことだが、これらの動きが全て日本が中心になっている
