The following lists events that happened in 2013 in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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We have asked the prefectural and central governments how to get residents to safety from there. TOSHIO SAKIMOTO: (Through interpreter) The town has already decided on an evacuation route within the island.
Toshio Sakimoto is the head of Yonaguni's town assembly. Officials in Yonaguni, meanwhile, are thinking about how to protect residents. Koda explains that Japan is constrained by its constitution, which forbids it from mobilizing its military unless there's a direct attack on Japan. and Japan together have the joint or combined operational plan? The answer is no. YOJI KODA: I think USINDOPACOM has its own OPLAN. But Yoji Koda, a former commander of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force fleet, says that cooperation on the plan seems to have stalled. and Japan have drafted a joint military operational plan, or OPLAN, to respond to an invasion of Taiwan. "If they attack from the east, Japan's southwest islands will become a battlefield." Japanese media have reported that the U.S. KUHN: "It's actually important for China to attack the island of Taiwan from both sides," he says. He says that if China attacks Taiwan, Yonaguni and other nearby islands could get in China's way.
Masahisa Sato is a lawmaker and director of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's foreign affairs division. Some argued that if China invades, the U.S. Officials began publicly linking Taiwan with Japan's security. KUHN: Last year, Japan's public position on the Taiwan issue saw a major shift. But I have never felt having the base here makes us safer. YUKA: (Through interpreter) I don't know what to say. KUHN: But Nakazato's wife, Yuka, sees things differently. They will protect us, and America will protect us. MASATERU NAKAZATO: (Through interpreter) I tell them that's why we have the self-defense forces. He says his students sometimes ask him what would happen in case of a conflict over Taiwan. Masateru Nakazato teaches at a local school. The island's residents and even some families are divided about the base. In 2016, the government built a military base and stationed about 160 soldiers on Yonaguni. KUHN: For a long time, locals called this a two-gun island, one for each of the two policemen on Yonaguni. In case of a Taiwan contingency, millions of Taiwanese could come here. RYUICHI IKEMA: (Through interpreter) During the Vietnam War, boat people came here. And Ryuichi Ikema, the director of the history museum on Yonaguni, says he's concerned. But tensions between China and Taiwan have intensified. Yonaguni is a township under Okinawa Prefecture, and the battle has contributed to a pacifist movement on both Yonaguni and the main island of Okinawa. Nearly a third of Okinawa's population died in that battle. For half a century, until the end of World War II, Taiwan was a colony of Japan, and trade between Taiwan and Yonaguni flourished.Įvery year, Yamaguchi residents mark the anniversary of the end of the World War II Battle for Okinawa. Yonaguni didn't become part of the Japanese empire until the late 1800s. Native Yonaguni horses graze in pastures. Hammerhead sharks glide through azure waters offshore.
Tropical forests cover much of the island's roughly 11 square miles. It's a crystal clear day, and I can see the mountains of Taiwan looming in the distance. And even though Taiwan is only about 60 miles offshore, locals here tell me you've got to be really lucky to catch a glimpse of it. It's the westernmost point in the Japanese archipelago. As NPR's Anthony Kuhn reports, Japan is strengthening its defenses in the area in case of a conflict.ĪNTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: This is southwest Japan's Yonaguni island. China is conducting large-scale military exercises following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to nearby Taiwan this week. Japan has lodged a diplomatic protest after Chinese missiles landed in waters close to its southwestern islands.
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