Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso has raised the specter of armed North Korean refugees flooding the Sea of Japan coastline after a contingency on the Korean
Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso has raised the specter of armed North Korean refugees flooding the Sea of Japan coastline after a contingency on the Korean Peninsula, and asked whether they would be shot as part of Japan’s response.
In a speech in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, on Saturday, Aso, who is also the finance minister, asked how authorities would respond if that should happen.
“Can the police handle them? Will the Self-Defense Forces be dispatched and shoot them down? We’d better think about it seriously,” he claimed.
The United States and North Korea remain on high alert as their leaders continue to hurl nuclear threats at each other.
