This is CBS. I am the world. I'm John Batch with Gordon Chang at

Gordon G Chang, my colleague and co-host and friend, and we're on with Gantt Lance

Gattling from Tokyo, principal of Nexu research. The presenting issue is

Japan's defense ministry has turned to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to develop

missiles capable of firing from a shore to sea in the event of a Chinese

invasion of Taiwan or a challenge to the Senkaku Islands in North Asia. There is

another opponent that the People's Republic of China uses as a wild card in

North Asia and that is North Korea. Lance, we speak of the ships, the PLA Navy

ships at sea. We don't speak of North Korea ships. They have land-based ICBMs

land-based missiles that they fire off routinely. Is this talk of missiles at

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries involve answering North Korea that if you move on

us, we will end your arraying. Is there talk like that Lance? The new deterrent

capability that the Japanese are procuring are more about deterring strikes

against them with the knowledge that Japan will avail itself to strike against

that capability. So the Japanese are not concerned about conventional force

invasion or interdiction from the North Koreans. Their surface fleet is

almost nonexistence. The submarines are very problematic, probably more

dangerous to the crew than anybody else. But certainly the missiles get the

attention of the Japanese. They are having suffered the only atomic bombings in

history from air platforms. They certainly are very aware of those and take that

threat very seriously. So what these new strike missile capabilities allow

them to do is to attack missiles in preparation or command and control

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