Published on July 29, 2019. This essay examines Japan’s review of preferential export measures toward South Korea not merely as a bilateral Japan–South Korea dispute, but as an international security issue involving suspected diversion of strategic materials, China, Iran, North Korea, and the Trump administration’s strategy toward China. It discusses why no G20 country criticized Japan, the meaning of Iran’s uranium-enrichment announcements, and argues that Japan must become a nation capable of exercising power, including through constitutional revision, to protect world peace and human rights.

July 29, 2019.
By reading this chapter, readers, like me, should for the first time have understood the meaning of Iran’s recent two announcements that it had begun uranium enrichment and, furthermore, had raised the concentration level.
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
By reading this chapter, readers, like me, should for the first time have understood the meaning of Iran’s recent two announcements that it had begun uranium enrichment and, furthermore, had raised the concentration level.
In other words, they should be stunned by once again recognizing the terrifying reality that merely subscribing to Asahi and watching NHK not only leaves one understanding nothing, but also results in being brainwashed by their distorted minds.
Trump does not loosen his hand.
Now, regarding China, the United States is maintaining its stance of “holding talks, but not making peace.”
At the U.S.–China summit meeting at the G20, trade was discussed, but the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean were not discussed, nor were discussions held regarding Americans and Canadians detained by China on suspicion of espionage.
Regarding trade as well, they merely decided to hold talks going forward, and the retaliatory tariffs were not lifted.
Of course, even with regard to the resumption of trade in semiconductor products, the United States has already stated that only nonessential parts are involved.
Since China is in the position of negotiating, it cannot criticize the United States any further, nor can it take provocative actions.
On the other hand, the retaliatory tariffs are continuing, so its economy is becoming weaker and weaker.
If time drags on, the United States may be at a disadvantage, but if it is a short-term decisive battle lasting only until next year’s election, it will work to the advantage of the United States.
That is because, if South Korea, a “country that diverts important materials and American products,” disappears, China will suddenly begin to lag behind economically and in the development of new products and weapons.
The theme of President Trump’s second term will be confrontation with China’s hegemonism and pressure on China for democratization.
The slogan after the presidential election will not be the economic “America First,” but the “America First” of pride and hegemony.
Needless to say, the country that must be watched most carefully at that time is China.
At the beginning, I wrote that, in my reporting at the time of the G20, there were also attendants from other countries, and on the issue of the South China Sea these countries are acting in step with one another, with Britain dispatching an aircraft carrier fleet to the Pacific and France to the Indian Ocean.
In addition, the United States has approved arms exports to Taiwan and is putting into effect one after another bills that elevate Taiwan’s status.
South Korea ignored by the entire world.
Now, South Korea.
The Japanese mass media and South Korea, both of which suffer from tunnel vision, cannot see the world situation and do not listen at all to what the attendants say, and therefore cannot see the movements of the world at all.
Regarding the latest measure, they understand it only as Japan “removing South Korea from the white countries in retaliation for the wartime labor trial.”
South Korea initially claimed that it “violates the spirit of the G20,” but in reality, among the 18 countries other than the parties Japan and South Korea, there is no country taking South Korea’s side, and no country expressing criticism of Japan.
This is nothing other than because the will of the United States has been conveyed to each country, and because they recognize that “South Korea is a country that secretly diverts important materials for its own profit, causes weapons of mass destruction to be made in various countries, and disturbs world peace.”
Because there is such a common understanding, each country’s view of South Korea is cold, and even Japanese bureaucrats, who are usually weak-kneed, have been able to conduct quite strong diplomacy.
China and Russia have the same recognition, and for that reason cannot take South Korea’s side, with Russia merely going so far as to express that it has an intention to designate South Korea as a white country and trade the necessary amount of important materials.
South Korea’s futile spinning continues, and it is conducting a boycott movement, but if it is truly “a boycott of Japanese products,” then it should boycott “important materials such as hydrogen fluoride.”
There is no need to boycott other products.
Moreover, if the people launch a full-scale boycott movement, it will show the world that South Korea is “a dangerous country whose entire people desire, even to that extent, to make Iran and North Korea produce weapons of mass destruction, VX gas, and the like, thereby disturbing world peace.”
Is this not what it means to expose one’s shame?
If things continue as they are, South Korea will become a country ignored by the entire world until it changes to the next president, and after leaving office, President Moon will probably be arrested and imprisoned, like successive South Korean presidents, for diversion of important materials, bribery, and so on.
As for Iran, it will become necessary to carry out the task of “reducing the stockpiles of important materials such as hydrogen fluoride that it has on hand.”
This is because, if it continues to keep important materials on hand indefinitely, it will continue to be suspected in the future.
For that reason, it has been driven into a situation in which it has no choice but to carry out uranium enrichment.
Increasing enriched uranium may be misunderstood as being for the purpose of making nuclear weapons.
However, rather than making VX gas or sarin, which have few uses other than murder, it would be better to produce and store resources that can be used peacefully in nuclear power plants.
When considered in that way, the need arose to proceed with uranium enrichment to the maximum amount and reduce the stockpile of important materials.
Iran has already explained this to the parties to the nuclear agreement other than the United States.
Not only with regard to the movement surrounding the latest review of preferential export measures toward South Korea, diplomacy must be viewed from multiple perspectives, including the fact that “there have been no complaints from G20 participating countries.”
I strongly question the current reporting posture that judges matters and explains diplomacy simply through the bilateral relationship between Japan and South Korea alone.
Moreover, should the media not properly interview attendants and others?
At the same time, in the future Japan is moving in the direction of exporting nuclear power plants, weapons, technologies, and the like, in addition to important materials, but it must strengthen its intelligence capabilities and monitor, with firm means including some military power, so that those materials and technologies are not used illegally or used for the arms industry or massacres.
In order to protect world peace and people’s human rights, the world expects Japan to become a country capable of exercising such power, including through constitutional revision.