Let'er Fly

How much blood has been shed at the hands of the Japanese? Let me try to answer that question as fast and simple as I can. It is a very complicated issue. There was the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05, they beat Russia. Then in July 1937, the second Sino-Japanese War broke out, and they beat China. They actually occupied the whole coast of China up until 1945. This occupation also included Korea. In 1933, Japan withdrew from the League of Nations since she was heavily criticized for her actions in China. In 1940, Japan occupied French Indochina (Vietnam) upon agreement with the French Vichy government, and joined the Axis powers Germany and Italy. These actions intensified Japan's conflict with the United States and Great Britain which reacted with an oil boycott. The resulting oil shortage and failures to solve the conflict diplomatically made Japan decide to capture the oil rich Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and to start a war with the US and Great Britain. In December 1941, Japan attacked the Allied powers at Pearl Harbour and several other points throughout the Pacific. Japan was able to expand her control over a large territory that expanded to the border of India in the West and New Guinea in the South within the following six months.
The people of China and Korea finally won their own independence after Japan surrendered and ended WW II. It was either surrender, or be annihilated. Korean people are Chinese, just as the Vietnamese were Chinese. Yes.............both of these Wars.....very similarly, fighting over territory North and South, one under Communist control and the other Democratic. The Japanese Emperor's over the years feuded with Chiang Kai Sek, and Russia's Joseph Stalin. In 1947, the Korean Communist had four factions. Natives - those who stayed in Korea (domestic group), Chinese - those who have worked for Mao Zedong (Yenan group) Russian - those who worked for Stalin (Soviet-Korean group), and Newbies - those who became communists after the liberation (Partisan and Kapsan Group).
Americans were polled in early 1953, and 56% said the Korean conflict was not worthwhile. In 1953, the armistice was signed. The cease fire that has existed over fifty years, may just go on forever. The Japanese shed the blood of all these Asian countries over three centuries. The Koreans hate Japan, and they hate the Americans for becoming their ally.
Korea is now threatening a missile test. Some say, they have nuclear capabilities of reaching the United States. This cat and mouse game is amusing. We are waiting for the missile test, so we can shoot it down, and show our allies that we are quite capable of protecting them. At least Taiwan and Japan expect this to be true. It would be quite embarrassing if we missed....lol!
I think about my niece, Miss Amber, who sits in a Air Force mobile unit with her other comrades, They watch 20" LCD monitors, with radar that reaches out hundreds of miles. One wrong bleep on the screen and POW!...........goodbye.........Hello----> meet Miss Amber.
I say to Mr. Kim Jong II------------------------->"Let'er Fly".