Kishida says Japan remains on alert over N Korea

Wonder where the JSDF Fleet is at the moment...?

Well done kishida san, taken right out of mericas playbook. Ramp that war mongering up, constitution revision is not far off now!!

Don't worry the next lot is Heading for Australia May be Hit Indonesia or before that Malaysia . Wow what will happen to fat boy then.

Preparedness when you have a heavily armed paranoid neighbour like FatBoy and his cohorts is only sensible. Preparedness is defensive not offensive, irrelevant to any proposed or mooted constitutional revision.

Japan does not worry N Korea. All Asian countries worry what kind of lies Trump is blurting this time. Russia, Iran and Syria will keep Trump busy creating new lies for a while.

Russia and China created and sustained North Korea and installed the Kim dynasty to rule, apparently forever. Syria's internal civil war started...internally. Russia and Iran have helped Assad kill almost half a million Syrian citizens and create a refugee crisis and the wealthy Arab nations refuse to help their Arab neighbors. North Korea will soon have the capability to mount nuclear warheads onto their ballistic missiles and have repeatedly threatened to "turn Tokyo into a sea of fire. And all of this is somehow Donald Trump's fault, according to previous posters.

"Kishida said that Japan needs “to be fully prepared to take various measures.” He did not elaborate."

And always will be, with you guys in charge. It didn't need it before. So what does that tell you? Cause and effect.

NHK news last night was doing the government's bidding in claiming that "the level of threat from North Korea has reached a new level", when the threat is no different from last week, last month, or last year.

People in Japan do need to be alert: alert against governement lies and self-serving propaganda aimed at removing people's rights through constant, unjustified scaremongering.

Tension about NorthKorea seem to help problematic Abe government resultantly.

Japan is not going to worry. It is between Trump andN Korea.

Japan is not going to worry. It is between Trump andN Korea.

Wrong! It is between North Korea and all its neighbors, including China and Russia. And no, Toshiko. It's not Trump, it's the United States Of America. Trump while the president, is but a single person. The conflicts between both nations go back decades, not just since the umpa lumpa was elected.

I agree with Toshiko. It's between Kim and Trump. Abe will go along with what his masters tell him.