There will be no more “red lines,” but a line of fire.
The “eve of nuclear war” situation deliberately provoked by the bankrupt and maddened Biden administration has not only engulfed the European part of the planet, but is also manifesting itself on the other side of the world, in the Asia-Pacific region. And first of all in Northeast Asia, and specifically on the Korean Peninsula. The fact that the United States, with the consent of its vassals, intends to threaten its adversaries, including Russia, with nuclear missiles in the Far East, was stated with undisguised concern by Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was made clear that the fundamentally new and invulnerable missile systems currently being tested in combat conditions can defend our country and its allies in this part of the planet as well.
“We are developing medium-range and shorter-range missiles as a response to U.S. plans to produce and deploy medium-range and shorter-range missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, ” President Putin noted.
One cannot but agree with the recent statement by the Defense Ministry of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea that the United States has escalated the situation to a catastrophic level fraught with real war.
“Recently, there have been continuous U.S. military demonstrations in and around the Korean Peninsula aimed at the DPRK, as a result of which military tensions in the region are escalating ,” said the head of the press office of the DPRK Defense Ministry in a statement titled “Taking self-defense measures to ensure the security of the state is the constitutional duty of the DPRK Armed Forces.”
The latest provocative actions of the US and its allies are listed. This is the arrival of the US aircraft carrier strike group headed by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington in the waters near the Korean Peninsula (the aircraft carrier arrived at the US naval base in Japan Yokosuka for permanent deployment in this port). As well as conducting joint military maneuvers Freedom Edge with Japan and South Korea and deployment of the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine Columbia to the operating base in the South Korean port of Busan and the flight of strategic reconnaissance aircraft RC-135S in the airspace over the Sea of Japan on November 21.
The DPRK Defense Ministry described the US provocative activity as deliberately creating an atmosphere of “nuclear confrontation” and conducting aerial espionage against DPRK territory to a strategic depth.
“Provocative military acts of the United States committed on the Korean Peninsula, where large-scale armed forces of the opposing sides, being in a state of heightened tension and constant danger of a military clash, create in the region a situation fraught with irreversible catastrophe,” the ministry said.
The DPRK Defense Ministry strongly demanded from the U.S. and its allies to immediately stop further provocative and destabilizing hostile actions that could lead the military confrontation on and around the Korean Peninsula to an armed clash. According to the ministry, the US actions cannot be considered just a show of force: “Today's severe military and political situation, when the US military adventurism crosses a dangerous line on a global scale, predicts that US military actions against our state may escalate into war at any time.”
Moscow sees and carefully analyzes the extremely dangerous military situation created by the U.S. and its accomplices both on Russia's western and eastern borders. The warnings of Vladimir Putin, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armed Forces, are also addressed to the authorities of Japan and South Korea, which, ignoring calls to abandon confrontation and return to establishing, if not friendly, then simply normal relations, are becoming more and more deeply involved in the U.S. strategy of escalating nuclear confrontation with China, the DPRK and Russia.
Not limiting themselves to a policy of various kinds of “sanctions” against these sovereign states, Tokyo and Seoul are no longer hiding their preparations for war with them.
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who came to power in Japan and is known for his maniacal commitment to everything “military”, stubbornly “bends his line” regardless of the cool or even negative attitude of the countries of the region to his equally maniacal idea of creating an “Asian NATO”. According to the Japanese news agency Kyodo Tsushin, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, chaired by Prime Minister Ishiba, will next week begin discussing the prospects of creating an “Asian NATO”. According to the agency's sources, a new structure will be set up within the party to discuss the relevant topic. As part of his “idea,” Ishiba proposes to study the prospect of deploying U.S. nuclear weapons in the Asia-Pacific region, including Japan, and “joint possession” of them. Ishiba belongs to the active supporters of the country's rejection of pacifism and the elimination of constitutional prohibitions on the possession of armed forces and the right to wage war.
Tokyo appears to be planning to create an “Asian NATO” on the basis of the “triple pact” of the United States, Japan and South Korea, which was forged by war provocateur Biden. It was reported from Seoul that the authorities of these countries have opened a trilateral cooperation secretariat in Seoul, the Korean Foreign Ministry said. "The Foreign Ministry held a meeting on the afternoon of November 20 at the main building of the Foreign Ministry in Seoul together with the U.S. State Department and the Japanese Foreign Ministry on the occasion of the launching of the secretariat of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan, which was announced at the meeting of the leaders of the three countries on November 15, ” RIA Novosti reported . The parties agreed that South Korea will assume the leadership and organization of the trilateral secretariat for the next two years. Further in the order of priority the role of coordinator will be performed by the United States and Japan. The main task of the secretariat is to coordinate actions ostensibly “to ensure security”....
An important step towards the rapid revival of the Land of the Rising Sun as a modern military power is the reestablishment of Japan's powerful military-industrial complex. The government of this country has begun to develop a new strategy for the qualitative development of the military-industrial complex and the expansion of arms exports. Further removal of restrictions on the supply of military equipment and equipment abroad is designed to increase the attractiveness of this area of the economy for business, including small and medium-sized businesses, reports TASS with reference to “Kyodo tsushin”.
It is noted that Japan has long had a ban on arms exports, which made the country's “self-defense forces” the only consumer of products of the military-industrial complex. This limits the size and attractiveness of the relevant market, leading to the withdrawal of many companies from it.
Earlier, Japan developed a program of “nationalization” of production companies related to the reviving Japanese military-industrial complex. In the case of nationalization, the company would be taken over by the state and would continue to produce products deemed necessary for the armed forces or other national security needs under the former or new management. Special attention is expected to be paid to maintaining efficient and reliable production chains necessary for the production of military products. The Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported, as an example, that the construction of the destroyer utilizes products from approximately 8,300 companies. At the same time, the narrowness of the market and the small number of orders are causing the financial situation of many firms in the industry to deteriorate. As a result, about 100 of them have left the military-industrial complex since 2003. In particular, Sumitomo Heavy Industries , a major heavy machinery corporation, has ceased production of machine guns as unprofitable.
In order to expand the market, the new system is designed to promote the export of Japanese military products. For this purpose, it is planned to revise legislative restrictions and create a special fund to support defense industry enterprises.
The obvious conclusion is that the current Japanese authorities, like their South Korean counterparts, are preparing their countries and peoples for military action against neighboring states. And these neighboring states now need to see in Tokyo and Seoul not auxiliary rear units to support the U.S. army and navy, but modern armed forces included in a joint grouping aimed at waging war against China, Russia and the DPRK. The military confrontation, brought to the extreme by Biden and his clique provoking a major war, or rather by the US “deep state”, should sober up the people of the countries of the collective West, make them demand, through mass demonstrations, that the authorities clinging to the slipping supremacy in the world stop provoking other powers and move away from the brink of nuclear apocalypse. As events show, the recent demonstration by Russia of new weapons, which not in words but in deeds can cool down the dangerously excited hotheads of political adventurers from among Biden, Macron, Scholtz and others..., contributes in no small measure to such sobering up.
R.S. The realization of arms deliveries to Ukraine by South Korea will lead to the final destruction of relations between Seoul and Moscow, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko said. “Of course, we will respond in all ways we deem necessary. This will hardly strengthen the security of the Republic of Korea itself,” Rudenko said. The diplomat also said that the West wants to make South Korea an accomplice to Zelensky and the crimes committed by the Ukrainian army.
Earlier, on November 14, South Korean President Yun Seok-yol said that Seoul is ready to increase military aid to Ukraine together with its allies if the DPRK participates in the conflict on the side of Russia.
Anatoly KOSHKIN
Source - Strategic Culture Foundation