While at a conference in Singapore with Asian defense leaders, Sec. Gates did a little podium thumping about North Korea’s recent nuclear test: “We will not stand idly by as North Korea builds the capability to wreak destruction on any target in Asia — or on us,” Mr. Gates told a major defense conference here that has been dominated by North Korea’s test this week of a nuclear device and the firing of at least six short-range missiles, all in defiance of international sanctions.
It took a foreign journalist to point out to Sec. Gates that while the US may not recognize North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, it was, in fact, already a “defacto nuclear weapons state.”
“We are resolutely opposed to nuclear proliferation,” General Ma said, adding that “we hope that all parties concerned will remain cool-headed and take measured measures to address the problem.”
China is resolutely opposed to nuclear proliferation only after NoKo. That means it wants no nukes in Japan.
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Good luck with that. And frankly, the whole concept is silly. Japan is technically capable of doing pretty much anything it wants -- in days not weeks -- almost regardless of the technology involved.
And given that estimates are that they have enough nuclear material for, oh, 4000 or so nukes stored up from operating their nuclear reactors, well it's all, shall we dare say, a "kabuki dance".
And did I forget to mention that the NorKorComs are nuttier than cuckoo-clocks?
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