Japan sticks to non-nuclear arms pledge after Trump remark

[WhiteTara]

Source: washington post

TOKYO — Japan’s government said Monday that it will stick to its policy of not possessing nuclear weapons, after U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump said he would be open to the idea of Japan and South Korea having their own atomic arsenals.

Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters that the country’s “three principles” of not owning, making or allowing nuclear weapons “remain an important basic policy of the government.”

Trump said in an interview with The New York Times published Sunday that asking Japan and South Korea to pay more for their own defense “could mean nuclear.”

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The U.S. stations tens of thousands of troops in Japan and South Korea, and both are key U.S. allies in the Pacific. Trump said he would withdraw those troops if Japan and South Korea don’t contribute more to their cost.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-sticks-to-non-nuclear-arms-pledge-after-trump-remark/2016/03/28/6cbae724-f4d2-11e5-958d-d038dac6e718_story.html

[First Speaker]

1. Hah...Trump might inadvertently cause peace to break out thruout the world...

...everyone's so terrified of him, they might have to work together in spite of themselves...

[TreasonousBastard]

2. How many more examples do we need...

that Trump's an asshole?

Maybe they can kick in some more for expenses, being under our nuclear umbrella and all, but to call for the only nation that actually had nuclear weapons used on it to own some is nuts.

[cprise]

3. Except for those US nuclear subs docking there...

Tokyo Angered by U.S. Sub's Surprise Docking

By ABC News

T O K Y O, April 4

Two months after the USS Greeneville accidentally surfaced beneath and struck a Japanese fishing boat, another American submarine has upset officials in Tokyo.

Japanese bureaucrats officially expressed their displeasure today after a U.S. submarine entered into a southwestern Japanese port without giving advance notice.

U.S. military officials had informed the Sasebo City government that the nuclear submarine Chicago would anchor outside the port on Monday for a routine port call.

But the 6,080-ton sub unexpectedly entered the port for about 20 minutes before leaving, he said today.

Violating ‘Established Practice’

The brief stop violated a 1964 bilateral accord requiring the United States to notify Japan 24 hours in advance of port calls for U.S. nuclear-powered submarines.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81311&page=1