09-15-2017, 03:15 PM
(09-15-2017, 10:44 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Firing a missile over another country's territory is itself an act of war even if a military response to such may be unwise.I tend to look at this in terms of the self defense principle of AOJ: ability, opportunity, jeopardy. Firing a missile across another nation is definitely saying I have the ability and opportunity to harm you and most certainly placing them in immediate jeopardy. In self defense circles, this is the standard that legitimizes the use of deadly force in response to an aggressor.
In short, Japan would be well within their rights to violently respond to NK.
As far as China goes, well they can go shit in a pile and sit in it as far as I am concerned.