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Jesse Johnson

@jljzen

Defense/diplomacy @Japantimes • views my own • jesse.johnson @ japantimes. co. jp / @[email protected] / https://t.co/CrqigY31rH / https://t.co/Y3CzQ8kqC6

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On 10 and 11 January 2024, a CAR team got access to the remnants of a missile that struck Kharkiv, , on 2 January 2024. CAR assesses that the missile is a KN-23/KN-24 conflictarm.org/NorthKoreanMis…

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Heading to Nozawa for skiing next week for first time. Any insight/recommendations? Probably lots of tourists?

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My latest IISS News blog with colleague Timothy Wright assesses North Korea’s ballistic-missiles transfer to Russia and its implications.
iiss.org/online-analysi…

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A Yomiuri Shimbun poll conducted over the weekend found the Kishida Cabinet’s approval rate was 24%, the lowest since the LDP returned to power in 2012.
japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/01/2…

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Joseph Dempsey and I write about North Korea's ballistic missile transfer to Russia for IISS News, including operational challenges, Russia's fluctuating missile strategy and the potential for Moscow to secure further missiles from other nations.

iiss.org/online-analysi…

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Japan’s successful touchdown on the lunar surface not only made it the fifth country to soft land a spacecraft on the moon but may have also demonstrated critical technologies for future space missions.
japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/01/2…

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While acknowledging that the atomic bombings were 'not exactly a nice act,' Trump argued that that former President Harry Truman would not have dropped atomic bombs on Japan if he had been concerned about facing criminal prosecution for it.

japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/01/2…

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.Ryan Hass: 'Taiwan’s voters…proved their pragmatism, electing…Lai Ching-te…and delivering the most seats in the legislative yuan to the opposition Kuomintang…This outcome is a vote for continuity and a call for Taiwan’s leaders to forge compromise.'
chinafile.com/conversation/m…

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Ron DeSantis ends campaign, endorses Trump as New Hampshire vote looms japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/01/2…

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Kyrylo Budanov: the Ukrainian military spy chief who ‘likes the darkness’ ft.com/content/98c005… via @ft

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自民党支持率、政権復帰以降最低の25%…派閥幹部が説明していると「思わない」は92% : 読売新聞オンライン yomiuri.co.jp/election/20240…

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Trump congratulates DeSantis, said it was very 'gracious' of him to endorse and said DeSantis 'ran a really good campaign.' It was the first time in months Trump used DeSantis’ real name as opposed to the nickname Trump had been using for him, Ron DeSanctimonious.

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Speaking of anti-American Soviet propaganda?

The CIA decided to make a series of VHS briefing videos for Reagan when he was president, figuring that being an actor he was a visual learner

They'd now declassified, and this one us on how Soviet media portrayed the USA

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Some in Japan's ruling LDP say tougher funds laws are needed — not an end to factions — signaling Prime Minister Fumio Kishida may face headwinds in his attempt to forge a united front in his response to a fundraising scandal roiling the party. japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/01/2…

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Trump: “You have to give a president immunity, otherwise, take a look at Harry Truman. He wouldn’t have done, if you think Hiroshima, not exactly a nice act but it did end the second World War probably … he said ‘I don’t want to do that because my opponents will indict me’”

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