Comments by "ZIPZ" (@zipz8423) on "North Korea fires missile over Japan in 'unprecedented threat'- BBC News" video.

  1. Why?
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  2. I don`t follow your logic, the UK has no reason to get involved, Japan is not a NATO country and we have no defence agreements with Japan, also, what can the UK do against North Korea? We wont even equip our own military. Not much.
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  3. Oh i think I do pal, i was in it for 22 years. I will say again, we dont have a mutual defence agreement with the Japanese , the US does not need our aid to fight anybody , we would be a hindrance to the Americans because they would have to provide force protection for us, because we haven't bothered to pay for that ourselves. What do we have to provide a UK expeditionary force protection against short ranged ballistic missiles for example? That`s right, sod all at the moment. Don`t say the Type 45 destroyer, its not there yet and wont be unless it can shoot Aster 30 NT which we would have to fund, and replace the VLS`s on our 6 DDGs. The UK does not have ANY ballistic missile defences at all, the ones owned by Japan have to be in range of the threat or they are useless.
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  4. Secondly, look at the size of our Army, what could we send and whom are we going to fight?? If we did end up in a ridiculous WWIII threatening fur ball with North Korea, the most we would send is a couple of A Boats, all we could spare and maybe a flight of 6 Typhoons from the RAF.
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  5. Cheesy, Parliament has not said in what capacity the UK would get involved nor has our government. "Involved" could simply mean sending a handful of military advisors to South Korea.
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  6. Japan couldn't shoot it down for practical / technical reasons I assume. I think the Israeli`s would have had a go at it but then their BMD is much more comprehensive given the size of the country.
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