{"id":9281,"date":"2011-08-12T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T17:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9281"},"modified":"2011-08-12T08:30:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T17:00:38","slug":"rethink-u-s-missile-defenses-in-pacific-instead-of-pushing-for-jeju-naval-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9281","title":{"rendered":"Rethink U.S. missile defenses in Pacific instead of pushing for Jeju naval base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/11\/opinion\/11iht-edlet11.html?_r=2\">NYT.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Letters to the International Herald Tribune<\/p>\n<h1>U.S. Defenses in the Pacific<\/h1>\n<p>Published: August 10, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Regarding Christine Ahn\u2019s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/06\/opinion\/06iht-edahn06.html\">\u201cUnwanted missiles for a Korean island\u201d<\/a> (Views, Aug. 6): China\u2019s objection to being surrounded by the U.S. Asia-Pacific missile defense system \u2014 set to be reinforced by a naval base on Jeju Island \u2014 is understandable and could indeed fuel an arms race which China but not the United States could afford.<\/p>\n<p>Russia sees a similar threat in the U.S. missile defense projects in Eastern Europe. And the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 demonstrated chillingly that the United States was prepared to risk a nuclear war to protect its own security.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than pressuring Seoul to construct the Jeju naval base and thereby jeopardize both its relationship with China and the economy and environment of a beautiful island, Washington should instead take the advice of Joseph Nye Jr. to rethink how the United States uses its military power (\u201cThe way to trim the U.S. military budget,\u201d Views, Aug. 6). Mr. Nye could have proposed \u201csmart diplomacy\u201d as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Xiao Ling, Singapore<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On NYT.com: Letters to the International Herald Tribune U.S. Defenses in the Pacific Published: August 10, 2011 Regarding Christine Ahn\u2019s article \u201cUnwanted missiles for a Korean island\u201d (Views, Aug. 6): China\u2019s objection to being surrounded by the U.S. Asia-Pacific missile defense system \u2014 set to be reinforced by a naval base on Jeju Island \u2014 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=9281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rethink U.S. missile defenses in Pacific instead of pushing for Jeju naval base&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-9281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-politics-law","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9283,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9281\/revisions\/9283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}