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Black Sabbath
Just remember when the drills started and why. "Fire and Fury" ring a bell.
But that won't stop the Trogs from shreecking "See? See!!!! Trump made us safer!!!"
No honor. No Shame. No memory.
thepersoniamnow
Japan will stop missile drills? Is that something Japan is supposed to be conceding?
I was not aware that missile drills were even being conducted much less that they are a negotiation clause.
jcapan
Great, less fear mongering
OssanAmerica
It's not any concession to North Korea. It just saves Japan the it's own time, money and effort. Especially for something that many felt had questionable value.
JonathanJo
The Tokyo Dome City Amusement Park participants in the top photo don't look particularly amused. More like 'Why are you wasting my (expletive deleted) time!"
Cricky
Scuttling down a drain pipe, ducking under a desk, getting behind a shrub is now so yesterday.
Bintaro
You mean the drills consisting of evacuating a hundred people in a city of 10 million ?
Thechosen
Ship's sailed. Time to pick up another boogeyman.
JonathanJo
If there was a real imminent missile attack, I think a lot of people would evacuate involuntarily.
kawabegawa198
Abe must be fuming!
AgentX
We all know the LDP will find a way to make a mess of this chance at peace so they can be 'the hero' and keep the attention off their own corruption while duping the voters into electing them again. There are no better alternatives for them right now.
Aly Rustom
some great posts here. marcelito and agentX on the spot as usual. And as many have pointed out, the drills were useless. Where and how are you going to evacuate all of Tokyo and Yokohama to? This was all LDP hype to keep the public preoccupied with other things.
liarsnfools
Note the suggestion that Abe might have to go to Pyongyang to meet Kim Jong Un. That symbolism would be Abe as supplicant. Hopefully he won't be asked to bow too many times. Wake up, Abe, Trump has cut you loose on your own, the Indopacom notwithstanding.
BeowulfOkami
Time to upgrade anti-missile systems then. Deterrence is better.
smithinjapan
Gotta do what Trump did... Japan certainly can't do its own thing.
macv
why doesn't Japan use the great elementary school desks we used the USA in the 1960's
that protected us from atomic bomb fallout?
Blattamexiguus
are those special Japanese anti missile umbrellas that everyone in the photo is holding?
Kaerimashita
They were always ridiculous anyway.
FizzBit
"Japan to halt missile attack drills after Trump-Kim summit, and increase sequenced JSDF training videos on the History Channel Japan."
Fixed
Aoi Azuuri
Abe Government excessively instigated unrest against North Korea to raise support rate.
kiljoy616
Better start building up your own forces Japan the USA is not a very stable country internally.