Japan: N Korea is top threat

[ze_dscherman]

TOKYO, Japan -- A Japanese defense report has named North Korea as the number one military threat to the country and called for an improved missile defense system to counter the danger.

The annual report listed North Korea, and the threat posed by its ballistic missiles, as Japan's biggest security concern and recommended Tokyo speed up anti-missile defense research and deployment.

"Given recent behavior, we cannot discount the possibility that North Korea's nuclear weapons program is already quite advanced," Japan's Defense Ministry said in the white paper as quoted by The Associated Press.


http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/05/japan.defense/

[samsingh]

1. Bush doesn't get this

he's got 70% of the military in Iraq guarding burning oil fields