Japan's Abe warns North Korea could fire sarin-loaded missile

[SummerSnow]

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned Thursday that North Korea might be capable of firing a missile loaded with sarin nerve gas toward Japan.

Abe, who made the statement at a parliamentary panel on national security, said Pyongyang may already be able to shoot missiles with sarin as warheads, the Associated Press reported.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes sarin as a human-made chemical warfare agent classified as a nerve agent. Generally odorless and tasteless, it can cause death in minutes.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/04/13/japans-abe-warns-north-korea-could-fire-sarin-loaded-missile/100408036/

[still_one]

1. and why would they do that?

[applegrove]

2. My brother's girlfriend is Japanese. They live there. The Japanese were hoping Trump would be as

hard on both China and North Korea as Trump previous bluster suggested. They are afraid of both states.

[still_one]

5. If I recall China never invaded Japan, and Japan was the only country which was the

recipient of nuclear bombs by the U.S. against two of its civilian population areas.

[applegrove]

6. That doesn't negate the fact they live today in a tough neighbourhoid

and are dependant on the USA for their defence. Remember how scared the US was during the Cuban missile crisis? Japan is facing that now. Let them be scared.

[still_one]

7. It isn't the "being scared that bothers me". It is your characterization that the Japanese

want the U.S. under trump to be tough on China and NK, whatever that means

It isn't in Japan's interests or anyone in that region to engage in hostilities, and trump threatening a pre-emptive strike against NK is not a good thing.

South Korea is even more at risk, and there position is there would be no American pre-emptive strike, and no foreign country, including the U.S. should bring war to the Korean Pennisula:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/world/asia/south-korea-north-military-strike.html?_r=0

The only parties that I know who are threatening military engagement in that region are the U.S. and NK. China sure isn't

As for the Cuban missile crisis, John Kennedy was the President then, not someone like Donald Trump. Curtis E Lemay, and other generals were actually pushing Kennedy to do a first strike against the Soviet Union. If someone like trump was president then, we very likely wouldn't even be here

[applegrove]

10. I am just relaying to you their fears. I'm not saying I want Trump to

be militarily aggressive. I specifically asked her, through my brother who was here, what the Japanese think of Trump. Obviously I don't want Trump to start any wars.

[still_one]

11. got it, that is what I thought

[global1]

3. Trump Leading With His Chin On NK Is Putting.....

Japan in peril. The Japanese have every reason to be worried as they are in the direct cross hairs of NK.

[Demtexan]

4. How many military people are there.

This is just crazy.

Two nuts going to blow up the world.

[yuiyoshida]

8. This can't be good...

これは良いことではありません。Kore wa yoi koto dewa arimasen.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

9. Lots of stuff COULD happen.

I just hope that we don't participate in some kind of preemptive attack, ala Iraq, based strongly on fear tactics.