[dannavy85]

How do you work that out? Don't the yanks have bases in South Korea?

We do but they don't have the sufficient power capable of dealing with a desperate North Korean invasion. Unlike the 1950 event, any invasion by the North this time would be a do or die suicide assault given the dire straits the country is in.

Japan holds most of America's air and naval power in the Western Pacific, bases for supply and material support and the airfields required should we lose Kimpo, Osan and Kunsan in a PDK Blitzkreig.

The tactic is simple, to trade land for time, draw the DPK south into the central highlands of South Korea then cut their supply lines and slaughter them.

Until we can finally effect the stablization of the Korean Penninsula or the collapse and end of the North Korean state, Japan will remain vital to the strategic defense of the North Pacific.