But in the other hand there is North Korea issue in which Japanese still feel insecure if they want to confront North Korea on its own. So Japanese still relies on USA on this matter. Japanese reliance on USA is also quite high in term of their weapon, while in other hand Japan-Russia relation is still not that strong. So this condition will be the main reason of why Japan want to have military present around SCS, in order to balance Japan relation with USA. So it is funny if PDF members has different logic to reason this new development in Philipine. So It is actually what I have said earlier.
I would not say relations with Pyongyang and Tokyo are that mitigated, my friend. The Japanese Government is rather secretive in regards to her bilateral mechanism, but do not be surprised to know that Japan maintains a rather omnidirectional position even with our supposed "threats" in media. The point is that despite political stance and political speak, Japan has ways of cultivating relations with Pyongyang. China serves as a route, but then again Tokyo also utilizes , for example, Mongolia. Not everything is black and white, and surely no true patriot of Japan really believes that China is our greatest threat. Japan's greatest threat is American securitized apparatus , which will aim to utilize Japan and Korea as mere bulwarks to protect American hegemony in the Pacific.
That, my friend, is what must be eroded.
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ULAN, BATOR – Japan and North Korea held secret talks in mid-May in Ulan Bator over North Korea’s abductions of Japanese nationals decades ago, a diplomatic source in Mongolia said Sunday.
Officials of the two countries met secretly before what Japan viewed as the one-year deadline on July 4 for completing the North Korean probe. North Korea told Japan on July 2 it needed more time to complete the investigation, according to the Japanese government.
The investigation is the third that Pyongyang has promised to conduct, following probes in 2002 and 2004 that Japan found unconvincing.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide to Mongolia in mid-May to seek its help in getting North Korea to clarify what became of Japanese nationals it abducted in the 1970s and 1980s, a source familiar with Japan-North Korea relations said. Chances are high that the aide, one of Abe’s executive secretaries, joined the secret talks.
In July last year, North Korea launched a comprehensive investigation into all Japanese residing in the country in return for Tokyo lifting some sanctions. The probe included a reinvestigation into the 12 Japanese citizens officially listed by Tokyo as abduction victims who are still missing.
On Sunday, Shotaro Yachi, Abe’s key foreign policy adviser who heads the secretariat of Japan’s National Security Council, held talks in the Mongolian capital with Tsagaandari Enkhtuvshin, secretary of Mongolia’s National Security Council.
The Mongolian official told reporters he promised Yachi that Ulan Bator will continue to serve as a mediator for the settlement of the abduction issue. Mongolia has diplomatic ties with North Korea, while Japan does not.
Mongolia venue of secret May talks with Pyongyang over abductions | The Japan Times
It is a good thing to warm relation between people of course, but we are here mostly talking about real politics that is playing, not something speculative about what will be happening in the future, because it is a defense and geopolitical forum.
I suppose why folks here who are so dependent on American security umbrella may take my views rather offensively is because it strikes at the very foundation of that umbrella: interdependence. That Japan is learning to posit herself in a more independent foreign policy calculus and to position her own military abroad in a rather effective, coherent and in an inclusive multilateral position is testament to Japan's direction in the coming years. What we are seeing is the gradual stripping of dependence on US military networks, rather, the development of Japanese+n security frameworks between Japan and other participating nations. China is a main partner that Japan is beginning to tap into as a global partner in recent years. As we see Japan's normalization of relations with Russia, China, and with greater relations with South Korea, we will see an inverse reduction on dependence on US networks. This thereby reduces American clout in Tokyo, and with are just beginning to see this recently when Japan has dismissed Washington's opposition to tokyo
announcement that Abe will meet with Putin before the G7 meeting.
The future is developing rather interestingly, my friend.
