{"id":8281,"date":"2011-01-13T19:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=8281"},"modified":"2011-01-13T19:41:47","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T00:41:47","slug":"u-s-japan-discuss-joint-missile-defense-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/8281\/u-s-japan-discuss-joint-missile-defense-development\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S., Japan Discuss Joint Missile Defense Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Robert Gates is finding a much more favorable response from Japan than China about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSN1322349720110113?utm_source=Newsletter&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;utm_campaign=Heritage%2BHotsheet\" target=\"_blank\">how to get tougher with North Korea<\/a>.\u00a0 On the Tokyo leg of Gates\u2019 weeklong Asian tour, the Pentagon chief \u201cdiscussed the potential export to allies of missile defense capabilities both countries are developing,\u201d according to reporting by <em>Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>CFIF recently profiled missile defense expert Brian Kennedy about the rationale for implementing a broad-based system of missile defense to deter not just a North Korean nuclear strike, but also one from China.\u00a0 You can <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/57-homeland-security\/864-chinese-north-korean-axis-heightening-need-for-us-missile-defense-shield-\" target=\"_blank\">read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Robert Gates is finding a much more favorable response from Japan than China about how to get tougher with North Korea.\u00a0 On the Tokyo leg of Gates\u2019 weeklong Asian tour, the Pentagon chief \u201cdiscussed the potential export to allies of missile defense capabilities both countries are developing,\u201d according to reporting by Reuters. CFIF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2271,135,1300,131,731,134,848,190,2270],"class_list":["post-8281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-brian-kennedy","tag-china","tag-japan","tag-missile-defense","tag-national-security","tag-north-korea","tag-pentagon","tag-robert-gates","tag-secretary-of-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8281"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8284,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8281\/revisions\/8284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}