Japan’s Parliament Approves Overseas Combat Role for Military

Re:Japan’s Parliament Approves Overseas Combat Role for Mili... by nl on Saturday September 19, 2015 @03:46AM (#10243624)

I agree with this assessment. But I can imagine circumstances where joint SK/Japanese operations against NK would be possible.

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Re:Japan’s Parliament Approves Overseas Combat Role for Mili... by suryon on Saturday September 19, 2015 @04:02AM (#10243654)

Unlikely. Maybe under the US general. But who am I to know ?

Koreans have not even allowed the Japanese to help them with the Sewol ferry even if they were within the reach.

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Re:Japan’s Parliament Approves Overseas Combat Role for Mili... by nl on Saturday September 19, 2015 @05:55AM (#10243830)

I'll just leave this here:

The United States of America, the Republic of Korea, and Japan held a productive and substantive security meeting from April 16-17 in Washington, District of Columbia, to enhance trilateral defense cooperation in light of the evolving security environment in the region.... The officials reaffirmed that their governments will not accept North Korea as a nuclear-armed state, and agreed to closely coordinate to deter North Korean provocations.... In addition, the three countries held a productive discussion on cooperative measures for non-traditional security issues including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counter-piracy operations, and counter-ISIL efforts.[1]

Three years ago it was impossible to imagine the US and Iran co-operating about anything. Now the US has provided de facto aircover for Iranian operations against ISIS.

[1] http://www.defense.gov/News/News-Releases/News-Release-View/...

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