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North Korea warns Japan against deploying long-range missiles in Kyushu

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Because only NK is allowed to fire missiles through Japan's airspace?

16 ( +20 / -4 )

Why would you deploy missile that are not nuclear,this is like bringing a knife to a gunfight

-16 ( +1 / -17 )

Missile bases are easy targets of enemy missiles, very dangerous. So, what's it mean that the central government is. planning to evacuate all the islanders of Yonaguni and Ishigaki to Kyushu, a more dangerous place should a contingency occur?

-3 ( +5 / -8 )

Voice,it only takes a missile to.hit Tokyo,5 minutes after launch

-13 ( +1 / -14 )

So, wherever the islanders may go, they would be put

in danger. The government plan is nothing but shenanigans.

-2 ( +3 / -5 )

what’s north korea going to do about it? fire a few missiles into the sea.

11 ( +11 / -0 )

North Korea warning Japan about anything, while they regularly launch missiles into the sea of Japan?

Pure comedy.

16 ( +16 / -0 )

Japan can do what it likes on Japanese territory.

11 ( +12 / -1 )

@Yrral

“it only takes a missile to.hit Tokyo,5 minutes after launch”

You’re quite right. That’s why Japan needs a nuclear deterrent of its own to protect itself from the rogue neighbors like North Korea.

8 ( +9 / -1 )

Just the concept of this theoretical missile deployment is a flagrant provocation, especially as they already threaten their decent neighbors with ruthless violence everyday.

-8 ( +2 / -10 )

Totally forgot North Korea was still a thing.

6 ( +7 / -1 )

Get lost.

8 ( +8 / -0 )

Do as I say, not as I do!

11 ( +11 / -0 )

Imagine your next door neighbor aiming guns and rockets at your house and then complaining when you do something to protect yourself from it due to something that happened a generation ago. How do you even get to a mental space where that sort of hypocrisy seems somehow justified and fine? You’d have to be insane.

8 ( +10 / -2 )

Just posturing from the North Koreans, that's all.

7 ( +9 / -2 )

Japan is ratcheting up tensions? Remember Hokkaido getting missile warnings every other month as NK was doing its "tests"?

7 ( +10 / -3 )

What a muppet…..

5 ( +6 / -1 )

Japan gonna be scared again from the North Korean’s wants they start firing…

-6 ( +3 / -9 )

Japan hosts an offensive foreign force, widely considered to be the most bellicose of them all. Yet one blames their neighbors for taking measures to protect from this. This makes the former culpable.

-9 ( +0 / -9 )

JJEToday 08:38 am JST

Just the concept of this theoretical missile deployment is a flagrant provocation, especially as they already threaten their decent neighbors with ruthless violence everyday.

Perhaps TASS never informed you, but just so that you're aware, Japan's aggression ended 80 years ago.

As a side note, I read your posts in the style of Ri Chun-hee and that gave me a good laugh, so thanks for that.

5 ( +6 / -1 )

Japan's aggression is not over. By hosting foreign forces and being a base/supporting logistics, it is complicit in the attacks on other countries around the globe. For example, it was basically a forward theatre base that supported the ruthless US invasion/slaughter of Vietnam. This is but one example. Logistic support was provided for the 'global war on terror', which includes the incredibly nasty invasion of Iraq too. One could go on.

The govt hardly has a clean pair of hands which it comes to supporting empire and globalist military adventurism, as do many satellites.

-11 ( +0 / -11 )

Just posturing from the North Koreans, that's all.

Pretty much, Kim doesn't really get to have a say in it either way. Guess the sabre rattling helps his domestic politics though so that's that.

0 ( +2 / -2 )

The NK hipocrisy is astonishing!

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JJEToday 08:38 am JST

Just the concept of this theoretical missile deployment is a flagrant provocation, especially as they already threaten their decent neighbors with ruthless violence everyday.

Japan doesn't have any decent neighbors except Taiwan and very rarely South Korea.

5 ( +6 / -1 )

North Korea warned Japan against deploying long-range missiles in the Kyushu region in March 2026,

Says the country that's constantly firing missiles into the sea in Japan's direction. LOL

4 ( +4 / -0 )

DPRK trying to gain back some favor with China.

2 ( +3 / -1 )

I was referring to actual countries, not provinces.

-6 ( +0 / -6 )

Japan, please don't fall in the dirty warmongering tricks of good old US

-5 ( +1 / -6 )

Oh, Well, better not do that.

-1 ( +1 / -2 )

It seems like something that Kim's crazy sister would say.

3 ( +3 / -0 )

Maybe the much-vaunted Asia-Pacific century is finally starting, after twenty-five years of European and Middle Eastern distractions.

-4 ( +0 / -4 )

"Don't you dare do anything to defend yourselves, or else, or else, well, I don't know what, but you won't like it!"

1 ( +2 / -1 )

Those missiles are no threat to North Korea. Their position on the island of Kyushu, are to provide defensive strike support towards the Nansei Islands (Japanese territory exclusively).

Only the Shanghai metropolitan region, in China, would remain in terms of foreign rank. But with Japan having by law, the prohibition of foreign attack on first strike. These missiles can only be used in the event of a counterattack. If China only attacks Japanese soil first.

So no. Those missiles would not threaten anyone, least of all North Korea. Their protest is technically implausible.

0 ( +0 / -0 )

Here we go again. Hey Kimmyboy, shaddup you face. Just go away and shed your skin.

0 ( +0 / -0 )

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