Asahi :: Saturday, April 25, 2009

• EDITORIAL: A world free of nukes (4/25)
  Since North Korea fired a missile on April 5, Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers have hotly debated whether Japan should possess the capability to attack North Korean missile launching sites on its own.
  Although the exchange of views was not as heated as it was three years ago, when North Korea conducted a nuclear test, one senior LDP member said, "We must make a threat that Japan, too, would possess nuclear weapons." continued ...