By Jessica Duncan and Dave Burke For Mailonline 13:20 EST 26 Nov 2016, updated 19:53 EST 26 Nov 2016
As MailOnline reported yesterday, tensions are mounting with Russia over the deployment of missiles on disputed Pacific islands.
Today it has been revealed that Japan also feels under pressure as Kim Jong-Un is continues to carry out a series of test.
As a result under Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, pamphlets have been issued advising people what to do in the event of an attack have been made available - with people urged to head to underground shopping centres.
The leaflet can be downloaded from the island nation’s civil defence website.
According to The Sun called “Protecting Ourselves against Armed Attacks and Terrorism,” it outlines emergency measures in the event missiles are fired at the country.
As well as taking shelter in shopping malls it urges people to take shelter, particularly behind thick walls to avoid radiation or blast injuries.
Japan’s Defence Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Agency have already installed some anti-missile batteries in Tokyo and considering lasers to defend themselves from missile attacks.
But North Korea has been strutting its nuclear strength for months, and despite some failed tests, it claims it would “saturate” its enemies with missiles.
Japan is the only country to have suffered nuclear war after the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the final days of the Second World War.
As well as 70,000 immediate deaths, the same amount suffered radiation affects, and many have suffered health problems since.
Following the end of the Second World War, Soviet troops seized the southernmost islands in the Kuril chain, known as the Northern Territories in Japan, that lies off the northeast coast of Hokkaido.
The countries have not signed a peace treaty formally ending wartime hostilities, and the dispute has hindered trade and investment.
'The Northern Territories are an inherent part of Japan's territory,' Abe told parliament today.
Abe said Japan had told Russia the deployment 'is deplorable' and 'is contradictory to Japan's position' on the issue.
However, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday the missile deployment was aimed at the 'consistent strengthening of national security'.
'Missile systems were deployed to the southern Kurils in line with that position,' she said, calling them 'an integral part of Russian territory'.
The remarks came ahead of a December 15 meeting between Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Yamaguchi city in western Japan, which is aimed at making progress on the territorial dispute.
The two leaders have met several times since Abe took office in December 2012, most recently last Sunday in Peru on the sidelines of a Pacific-rim summit.
Tensions with Japan have heightened at a time when concerns are increased over Russia's relationship with NATO.
This week Putin ally Franz Klintsevich, 59, a senator and leading member of the Kremlin strongman's United Russia Party, warned a modern Cuban missile crisis could be on the way to Europe.
The Kremlin claimed his views were 'understandable' but stressed it was Putin personally who decided Russia's policy on targeting enemies.
'Russia will deliver a hard and clear response to NATO's aggressive actions, the alliance's attempts to draw into its orbit yet more countries,' said hardline legislator Klintsevich.
'We shall train our weapons, including nuclear ones, on any alliance facilities threatening us, wherever they may be deployed.'
Klintsevich was speaking as deputy chairman of the Russian senate's Defence and Security Committee at a time of rising tension between Moscow and the West.
No comments:
Post a Comment