Trump Orders Nuclear-armed Bombers Back on 24-hour Ready Alert

All this talk about North Korea and its near-weekly threats of nuclear strikes and missile launches has been mysteriously quiet as of late.  In fact, earlier in the month, when a theory was posed by our FBI Korean expert that the North Korean leader (who had tipped his hand that he may fire another ballistics missile in or around the middle to the end of October) may launch the missile either the day before their New Years celebration or the day after, which was Columbus Day, there was forethought that this was going to happen.

When it did not, many wondered why.  As Japan’s election cycle has just completed, the answer may have been revealed.  It appears that as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has won reelection in a landslide supermajority victory and the conservative parties have won a wide swath of elections throughout the island nation, he has found it necessary to begin probing whether or not the country should move away from its pacifist constitutional constraints and toward a new 21st Century model (drafted in part by the United States) based on something similar to America’s geopolitical-military view of the world.

This, of course, would require support from a large area of the country and it is no easy task.  That being said, victory for Abe depends on the current military stance of North Korea.  In other words, if they are threatening and launching missiles here and there, the Japanese people are more likely to back a hyper-aggressive alteration of the constitution.  If North Korea is silent, Abe’s job will be much more difficult.

Parties in favor of amending the U.S.-drafted charter won nearly 80% of the seats in Sunday’s lower house election, leaving the small, new Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDPJ) as the biggest group opposed to Abe’s proposed changes. Still, Abe claimed he wanted to get other parties on board, including Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike’s new conservative Party of Hope, and was not insisting on a target of changing the constitution by 2020 that he floated this year.

To put it in more clear terms, this is the equivalent of a Republican victory in the House, Senate, Presidency, Governorships, and State Houses throughout the nation (similar to what has happened here since 2010) but all in one election!  Then, Trump decides to say, “Well, let’s wait on the ObamaCare repeal until I can get more Democrats on board.”

So, as you can see, the Japanese prime minister is a more Moderate leader, but that does not mean that the US-held beliefs won’t sway him and his subordinates to a more sensible point of view.  After all, they have been the target of North Korea in 6 out of the last 10 launches.

With all of the world leaning on North Korea, they are at the crossroads now of either capitulating or acting.  Many believe that the rogue nation has been quiet in order to hurt the US-led push to amend the Japanese constitution.  It’s a good bet, but perhaps too little, too late for Kim Jong Un.

Source:  Defense One / Fox News / Zero Hedge / Business Insider / YonHap News Agency