The Trump administration told Congress on Tuesday that it has given the green light to selling US-made SM-3 interceptor missiles to Japan in a deal estimated at US$133.3 million.
A statement from the State Department says sale includes four Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA missiles, four MK 29 missile canisters, and other technical, engineering and logistics support services.
The SM-3 Block IIA is an anti-ballistic missile that can be deployed on Aegis-class destroyers or in a land-based Aegis Ashore program. The system was jointly developed by Japan and the US and the sale is intended to bolster Japan’s existing antimissile systems against North Korea.
“If concluded, this proposed sale will contribute to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States by enhancing Japan’s Maritime Self Defense Force’s ability to defend Japan and the Western Pacific from ballistic missile threats,” the official said.
The sale would also “follow through on President (Donald) Trump’s commitment to provide additional defensive capabilities to treaty allies” threatened by North Korea’s “provocative behavior,” the official added.
Well, why not?
With a Chinese dictatorship backed NK skulking and pouting around the corner, with Chinese supplied weapon systems, why wouldn’t Japan feel nervous.
When will the Chinese Communist Party understand that the rest of the world is not a bailed up, learned helpless, bullied, cajoled, frightened and censored, bunch of folks, who can’t see what is going on with NK and the wrong headed regime in China?
Has the Chinese regime lost touch with how humanity is, and how it yearns for simple freedoms, like the freedom to think and choose?
Oh yeah, we are just waiting for the Chinese regime to show its real colours.
Is the NK situation, the Chinese regime’s answer to, ‘how to win friends and influence people’?
Huh?