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Japan, U.S. forces hold joint air drills

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Great to know we are practicing with nuke capable bombers from a country that nuked us.

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...over the East China Sea... ...in response to increasing provocative actions by North Korea...

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No wonder! Fat Man with triple chins in Pyongyang is so irritated.

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US, South Korea and Japan have repeated military drills intermittently from summer despite knowing North Korea who reacts it launches missiles.

And direction or range of North Korean ballistic missile launching is clearly aware of US, not Japan.

But Japanese mainstream media emphasize only North Korea missile launching, spread misinterpretation as if North Korea has launched missiles without reason day by day, and mislead Japanese public opinion to endless arms race despite involving poverty or shortage of social welfare.

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US, South Korea and Japan have repeated military drills intermittently from summer despite knowing North Korea who reacts it launches missiles.

One side of me wants the US and ROK to keep it up. Let His Corpulence in Pyongyang keep shooting missiles in a rage until he runs out.

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Of course continued shows of force will lead to more peace and stability in the region, even though at this point everyone knows NK fires missiles in response to such exercises, i.e. attack sorties carried out continuously twenty four hours for five straight days around the clock.

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Yet more provocation by the rogue state of the USA.

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The more Japanese and U.S. Forces conduct joint military exercises, the more integrated they become, making a demarcation line hard to draw between U.S. bases and JSDF bases.

There was a demonstration flight of a U.S. drone, MQ-9, at the SDF Kanoya Base in Kagoshima Prefecture on Nov. 3. And it was bilaterally agreed later that the drone would be deployed to Kanoya together with the U.S. operating team numbering 200 personnel as they were.

Earlier, during the period from late August to early September, when the joint Japan-U.S. military exercises (Orient Shield 2022) were conducted in the Pacific, the U.S. mobilized a HIMARS missile unit that was stationed at a newly built SDF base on Amami-Oshima Island. It was announced later that the said HIMARS unit would be stationed there for a time being (nobody knows how long).

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RodneyToday  09:15 am JST

Great to know we are practicing with nuke capable bombers from a country that nuked us.

The B-1 Bomber has not been nuclear capable since 2007.

And who exactly is this "us"?

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Amusing to see the comments about Japanese, South Korean and US military exercises but those same people give only support to China, Russia and North Korea when they have their own military drills. There is a great term for that, hypocrisy!

When your side does it, it is justified but when the other guys do it, it is provocation. Amazingly simple people with obvious bias and continued hatred of free and democratic nations.

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Five jets? That's so sad.

Koreans just had the joint drill involving 140 fighter jets from their side, 100 from the US for a combined 240 jets over 5 days simulating 3,000 sorties, which triggered Kim to launch 30 ballistic missiles of various range.

Japan's readiness is lagging obviously, and this is what the Russians were observing. When their bombers flew near Korea, Koreans sent out a dozen jets to intercept, Japan just 2 jets.

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