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*** 13-Aug-17 World View -- Japan will shoot down N. Korean missiles via 'collective self-defense'

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • North Korea threatens US bases on island of Guam
  • Japan to deploy more advanced PAC-3 Patriot Missiles to defend U.S.
  • Japan's government will invoke 'collective self-defense' to defend the United States

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**** North Korea threatens US bases on island of Guam
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[Image: g170812b.jpg]
A Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile battery at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo.

On Wednesday of last week, the start-run North Korean Central News
Agency (KCNA) reported that the US strategic bombers at the US
military bases on the island of Guam "get on the nerves of the DPRK
[North Korea]", and therefore the KPA [Korean People's Army] is making
plans for a missile attack:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"The KPA [Korean People's Army] Strategic Force is now
> carefully examining the operational plan for making an enveloping
> fire at the areas around Guam with medium-to-long-range strategic
> ballistic rocket Hwasong-12 in order to contain the U.S. major
> military bases on Guam including the Anderson Air Force Base in
> which the U.S. strategic bombers, which get on the nerves of the
> DPRK and threaten and blackmail it through their frequent visits
> to the sky above south Korea, are stationed and to send a serious
> warning signal to the U.S.
>
> The plan is to be soon reported to the Supreme Command soon after
> going through full examination and completion and will be put into
> practice in a multi-concurrent and consecutive way any moment once
> Kim Jong Un, supreme commander of the nuclear force of the DPRK,
> makes a decision.
>
> The execution of this plan will offer an occasion for the Yankees
> to be the first to experience the might of the strategic weapons
> of the DPRK closest.
>
> Explicitly speaking again, the strategic weapons which the DPRK
> manufactured at the cost of blood and sweat, risking everything,
> are not a bargaining thing for getting acknowledgement from others
> and for bartering for anything, but they serve as substantial
> military means for resolutely countering the U.S. political and
> economic pressure and military threat as what has been observed
> now."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

On Thursday, KCNA "clarified" the statement:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"As already clarified, the Strategic Force of the KPA
> is seriously examining the plan for an enveloping strike at Guam
> through simultaneous fire of four Hwasong-12 intermediate-range
> strategic ballistic rockets in order to interdict the enemy forces
> on major military bases on Guam and to signal a crucial warning to
> the U.S.
>
> On Tuesday, the KPA Strategic Force through a statement of its
> spokesman fully warned the U.S. against its all-round sanctions on
> the DPRK and moves of maximizing military threats to it. But the
> U.S. president at a golf links again let out a load of nonsense
> about "fire and fury," failing to grasp the on-going grave
> situation. This is extremely getting on the nerves of the
> infuriated Hwasong artillerymen of the KPA. ...
>
> The Hwasong-12 rockets to be launched by the KPA will cross the
> sky above Shimane, Hiroshima and Kochi Prefectures of Japan. They
> will fly 3 356.7 km for 1 065 seconds and hit the waters 30 to 40
> km away from Guam.
>
> The KPA Strategic Force will finally complete the plan until mid
> August and report it to the commander-in-chief of the DPRK nuclear
> force and wait for his order.
>
> We keep closely watching the speech and behavior of the
> U.S."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

President Donald Trump responded by threatening to unleash "fire and
fury" on North Korea, and later added that the military options are
"locked and loaded." Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) and CBS News

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**** Japan to deploy more advanced PAC-3 Patriot Missiles to defend U.S.
****


Leaders in Guam, South Korea, and Japan expressed hope that war is not
imminent, but they're all preparing for any eventuality.

While advising people to continue their business as usual, Guam’s
Office of Civil Defense began distributing a fact sheet entitled
"Preparing for an Imminent Missile Threat." In case a missile is
approaching, keep calm and, if you're caught outside:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"Do not look at the flash or fireball — it can blind
> you. Lie flat on the ground and cover your head."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

Japan is holding missile evacuation drills for the public, and is
doing a lot more: Planning to install additional Patriot Advanced
Capability-3 (PAC-3) anti-missile systems. There is particular
concern about the three prefectures that North Korea threatened: the
Shimane, Hiroshima and Kochi Prefectures.

Japan is saying that since Japan is potentially threatened by the
North Korean missiles, they are justified in shooting them down. This
would require the government to declare a "survival-threatening
situation."

Japan currently has a two-level missile defense system.

The Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) system mounted on Aegis-equipped
destroyers can shoot down incoming ballistic missiles in outer space
at a maximum altitude of about 500 kilometers. The SM-3 system is
designed to shoot down missiles traveling on a parabolic path when
they start descending.

The second layer of Japan's missile defenses are the surface-to-air
Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) guided missiles, which can
destroy targets at altitudes between 10 and 20 kilometers if SM-3
interceptor missiles are not effective. The country’s 34 PAC-3 units
attached to 17 anti-aircraft units are mostly deployed in densely
populated areas like the Tokyo metropolitan and Kyushu regions as well
as at major Self-Defense Forces bases. It's expected that Japan will
redeploy two PAC-3 systems to the prefectures threatened by North
Korea. Japan News and Japan Times and Nikkei Asian Review

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**** Japan's government will invoke 'collective self-defense' to defend the United States
****


Article 9 of Japan's constitution, imposed on Japan by US Gen. Douglas
MacArthur at the end of World War II, renounced war and the threat or
use of force. Technically, Japan does not have the right to shoot
down North Korean missiles.

The pacifist Article 9 remains extremely controversial. Many
conservatives see it as a humiliating imposition, while liberals view
it as the basis of Japan's peace and democracy.

Prime minister Shinzo Abe has repeatedly said that the would like to
amend Article 9, but he's never had the votes to do it. However, in
2015, he was able to bring about passage of a reinterpretation of the
self-defense clause to include "collective self-defense." The old
self-defense clause of the constitution has been interpreted to permit
military action only when Japan itself is being attacked, and only on
Japanese soil. The new collective defense laws reinterpret the
self-defense clause to include "collective self-defense," which would
permit military action anywhere in the world under some circumstances
when an ally (such as the United States) is attacked. I discussed the
meaning of "collective self-defense" in detail in 2014.

Japan's Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera on Thursday said that it
would be necessary to declare a "survival-threatening situation,"
which would enable Japan to exercise its right of collective
self-defense, with a view to intercepting North Korean missiles on
behalf of Japan's ally, the United States. According Japanese
officials, certain conditions would have to be met:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"If it is judged that North Korea indicates a clear
> intention to attack the United States and starts missile launch
> preparations, an armed attack would be considered to have
> occurred. ...
>
> However, if North Korea says it’s targeting the missiles outside
> [U.S.] territorial waters, it would be difficult to call it an
> attack against the United States and declare a
> survival-threatening situation."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

Sputnik News (Moscow) and AP and Reuters (31-July) and Japan Times

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KEYS: Generational Dynamics, North Korea, Guam, Japan, South Korea,
Patriot Advanced Capability-3 guided missiles, PAC-3,
Standard Missile-3, SM-3, Shimane, Hiroshima, Kochi,
Shinzo Abe, collective self-defense, Itsunori Onodera

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