North Korea may be threatening nuclear war against the United States, Japan, and South Korea, but Japan isn’t open to an American preemptive strike. If the Trump administrations decided to go that route, Japan will attempt to intervene.
“If America says it is going to attack, both Japan and South Korea will probably put a stop to it,” an unidentified Japanese defense minister told Reuters this morning (April 10).
But according to the global nonpartisan economic website EconoTimes today, there is a rumor that the United States is actually considering “bombarding North Korea’s nuclear facilities.”
Here’s the one big reason why Japan and South Korea want to stop the United States from getting involved…
Japan Warns U.S. to Protect Itself
Should the rumors of a U.S. attack on North Korea materialize, Japan and South Korea would be the first victims of Pyongyang’s counterattack.
That’s simply because both countries are U.S. allies as well as North Korea’s direct geographical neighbors.
And the counterattack from Pyongyang could include nuclear weapons.
This morning, South Korean defense ministry spokesman Moon Sang-kyun spoke in a press conference about the three nations’ response to Pyongyang’s threats.
“Considering the possibility of North Korea’s strategic provocations such as a nuclear test and missile launches,” Moon said, “[South Korea, Japan, and the U.S.] have in place deterrence to the North’s provocation and all readiness against them.”
However, Moon avoided directly answering questions about the rumored U.S. strike on North Korea, reported Reuters.
It’s unclear how the Japanese government would stop the attack, but it may not matter. North Korea has been threatening nuclear war for years — and the US has been threatening the North Koreans for just as long. Despite harsher words from D.C., we may be no closer to war against North Korea than we have been for the last decade.
Source: Money Morning
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