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By Merrill Goozner
O Chicago Tribune 1993
TOKYO Defense Secretory
Lcs Aspin in trying to defuse
the slow-motion North Korean
nuclear crisis may have initiated a
high-stakes buttle over technology
by proposing Japan's participation
in a missile defense system the
United States is developing.
The proposal also could provoke
apolitical crisis in Japan as that
country tries to reconcile its pacifist
constitution with the modern
world's increasingly sophisticated
air defenses.
During his trip through Asia last
week Aspin asked Japan to help
build the next generation anti-missile
system dubbed THAAD for
Theater High Altitude Area
Defense.
The program is the successor to
the so-called Star Wars program
which Aspin folded last spring.
In exchange for Japan's help in
what still shapes up to be u multi-'
year multibillion-dollar defense
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South Korea U.S. hunt for delicate balance with North Korea!
By David E. Sanger
The New York Times 1993
SEOUL South Korea When
Secretary of Defense Lcs Aspin
arrived in Seoul this week to devise
a strategy for dealing with Notth
Korea's nuclear weapons project
his party of aides and top American
officials immediately was whisked
off to the Foreign Ministry where
three photographs dominate the
conference room wall.
The first shows Seoul in 1945 a
peaceful town of traditional-style
Korean homes. The second was
taken from the same site in the early
1950s after the forces of Kim 11-
sung had swept over the border
leaving nothing standing except
smoldering ruins and a few chim
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program the United States would
like to obtain some of Japan's more
sophisticated dual-use technologies
manufacturing systems elec-
tronics gear and advanced ceramics
that might prove useful in military
and civilian industries.
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We could sell them
the theatre missile
defenses we're
developing for our
own forces
Les Aspin
The offer was treated cautiously
in Japan where defense budgets arc
tightening acrimony lingers over
previous joint defense programs
specifically the controversial FSX
jet fighter and critics already are
questioning the legality of space-
based defense.
"It's very expensive it will take a
long time to deploy and it raises all
kinds of political and constitutional
problems" said Masashi Nishihara
big fear: pushing too far
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graph of the present site with its
svccping boulevards and office
towers.
'There is a very fine
line between
coercing North
Korea... and
provoking a
tremendous disaster
U.S. military off icer
Such images crop up with
increasing frequency these days as
South Koreans try to impress on the
United States how high a price they
might pay if they force Kim's des
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research director at the National
Institute for Defense Studies
Japan's equivalent of the National
War College.
High-ranking Japanese defense
officials and think-tank leaders
traveled td Washington recently for
briefings on details of the new
defense program which the United
States plans to deploy in Japan and
South Korea where it still main-
tains thousands of troops. The sys-
tem uses upgraded land and sea-
based missiles new versions of
the Patriot and Aegis systems that
proved effective during the Persian
Gulf war with space-based sur-
veillance and command satellites.
Nov. 3 Aspin suggested the
United States was indifferent to
how the system will be deployed.
"Wc could sell them the theatre
missile defenses we're developing
for our own forces" he said.
"We've offered the possibility of a
joint technology program for
exchanging dual-use technologies.
The choice is up to the Japanese
government."
perate often irrational-sounding
government into a comer.
The message seemed to make
sense.
By the time Aspin left he and his
aides were talking openly about
their growing worries that the
wrong kind of pressure on the iso-
lated North Korean government
could provoke it to lash out violent-
ly toward neighboring nations
"There is n very fine line between
coercing North Korea to do what
you want them to do and provoking
a tremendous disaster" one of the
most senior American military offi-
cials said this week.
Another official aboard Aspin's
plane returning to the United States
said "Wc may be entering kind of a
danger 7onc here."
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North Korea opening up to world
By James Prlngla
The Washington Times 1993
IYONGYANG North Korea
The first signs of a minor eco
nomic- and social relaxation arc
appearing in communism's last
Stalinist bastion of North Korea.
Many of the changes arc cosmet-
ic; the appearance of once-forbidden
bicycles on the well-scrubbed
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private cars and a greater willing-
ness to speak to foreigners.
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matic in a nation long shut off from
most of the outside world.
Shops selling overseas goods
which very few North Koreans can
afford now offer radios with
multimeter bands.
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