North Korea is Upset that Japan is Building Its Own Space Force
The Kim regime is just upset that the Japanese are likely looking at building up capabilities in space militarily to deal with North Korea and China’s growing ballistic missile threat:
North Korea on Saturday slammed Tokyo’s plan to establish a military space unit, saying the plan is a dangerous and reckless move to make Japan a “military giant.”
“Japan is madly keen on exploiting even the outer space for its sinister purpose of building up ‘defense capacity,'” the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), Pyongyang’s official mouthpiece, said in its editorial. “The outer space can never be reduced to a theatre for the state of aggression, the war-thirsty state.”
Japan last year announced that its Self-Defense Forces (SDF) plan to create a military unit specializing in space matters by 2023.
Yonhap
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Since South Korea doesn’t seem interested in reining North Korea in, it’s not surprising to see Japan taking matters into its own hands.
I hear they plan to raise the battleship Yamato and turn it into a space ship….
Flyingsword, the real Yamato is in about 12 million pieces scattered over a wide area. They might do better trying to salvage Akago or Kaga as their hulls were not blown to splinters when their magazines blew up. Same with Musashi. Nagato was nuked Mutsu blew up in their harbor, the Kongos were battered into hulks before sinking, Fuso and Yamashiro were blown apart, Ise and Hyuga suffered similar fates.
Still, “Space Battleship Yamato” is kinda the anime version of Fess Parker as Davy Crockett.. great escape fantasy for the kids…
Set…guess you never watched Star Blazers..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Blazers
The theme song is perfect for the new space force…btw. https://youtu.be/eMcrep48Wz0
We sank the Yamato. I would rather we choose something not related to cartoons or failures.
And I realize that sounds quite harsh; but it is not meant that way… Maybe we canget get Madison Rising to write something
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OkAr9Bov5Gc
Then again, if it’s for the Japanese Space Force, “Star Blazers” might be just the ticket… Although I fear they’ll receive an angry message like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfMC2aVhYuo