Sunday, March 30, 2003
MORE SURPRISINGLY TOUGH TALK FROM JAPAN: PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE ON NORTH KOREA WOULD NOT BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL
If North Korea were about to launch a missile at Japan, it would not be unconstitutional to make a pre-emptive attack on the launch site, Japan's defense chief said Sunday."The Japanese government said in the Diet in 1958 that when there is no other means, it is not the intention of the constitution to just sit and wait to die," said Shigeru Ishiba, director general of Japan's Defense Agency, interviewed live from Seoul on a Fuji Television talk show.
