Japan has decided to ignore demands by North Korea that it not attend the upcoming but yet-to-be-scheduled next session of six-party talks to get the NORKs to discontinue their nuclear program. The NORKs apparently are upset because Tokyo has refused to recognize them as a nuclear power.
Pyongyang on Saturday accused Japanese officials of being “political imbeciles incapable of judging the trend of the situation” for not recognising North Korea as a nuclear state.
The statement from the foreign ministry also said Japan need not attend the forthcoming talks as it was nothing more than a client state of the US.
South Korea, in the meantime, seems more concerned with calls in Japan for a discussion of their nuclear options than with the nuclear noises coming from north of the 38th parallel.
After talks with Shinzo Abe in Tokyo, UN Secretary General designate Ban Ki-moon expressed concern over calls in Japan to consider acquiring nuclear weapons.
While Prime Minister Abe has insisted there are no plans to change Japan’s long-standing policy of not possessing or allowing nuclear weapons, others top officials have called for a debate.
“I don’t think remarks like these are desirable for the future of Japan, which is one of the most important members of the UN and also a major power in north-east Asia,” Mr Ban told reporters.
I think I’ve finally figured out Ban/SK’s strategy: bitch and complain about Japan’s right to defend itself so much that when the time comes, Japan will be an undefended sitting duck and SK can partner up with NK to invade Japan. What a great unification plan indeed.
Any doubts about the validity of the UN are no more; it’s completely worthless, counter-productive even.