It looks like President Lee has the Japanese leadership bought into his fantasy of denuclearizing North Korea:
President Lee Jae Myung held summit talks Tuesday with outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in the southeastern city of Busan, where the two leaders reaffirmed their commitment to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and to cooperate amid a shifting global trade order.
The meeting came about a month after Lee’s visit to Tokyo, marking the first visit in 21 years by a Japanese leader to a location other than Seoul.
In their third meeting, Lee said Seoul and Tokyo should face history while pursuing “future-oriented” cooperation to address shared challenges, such as low birth rates and an aging population.
You can read more at the link, but at this point I can’t believe any of these world leaders are stupid enough to actually think Kim Jong-un would give up his nukes. Denuclearization seems more like a talking point than an actual diplomatic strategy at this point.
An example of a TikTok AI slop video supporting Takaichi Sanae: It shows her as anti-immigration, willing to start a war with China over the Senkaku Islands, and making Korea apologize to Japan after she tells them there is "no evidence" of comfort women.pic.twitter.com/jBtKCjXq9m
Considering all the missiles that China has pointed at Japan, Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines, and Guam it only makes sense that the US and it allies flood the Pacific with missiles to point right back at them:
The Marine Corps is rehearsing island defense with its two newest missile systems alongside Japanese soldiers on Ishigaki Island, sending “a clear message to any attempt to undermine regional security,” the Marines’ top general on Okinawa said Wednesday. (……)
The systems arrived Monday for the first time on the island about 150 miles east of Taiwan, a spokeswoman with Okinawa’s Military Base Affairs Division said by phone the following day. Some Japanese government officials speak to the press only on condition of anonymity. The generals stood in front of two MADIS systems, a NMESIS system and Japan’s Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile and Type 03 Surface-to-Air Missile systems.
NMESIS mounts Naval Strike Missiles on joint light tactical vehicles to target ships at sea. The system plays a key role in the Marines’ Force Design strategy, which calls for littoral regiments to operate within range of enemy fire to seize and hold islands and block hostile vessels from nearby waters. Marines can operate the system remotely from “line of sight” or up to about 200 yards away, Capt. Kurt James, commander of the 12th Littoral Regiment’s Medium-Range Missile Battery, told Stars and Stripes before the news conference. The missiles have a maximum range of 115 miles.
