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Japanese radar plans criticized by China
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China has criticized Japanese plans to install a cutting-edge US military radar system to monitor North Korean missile launches, saying it could impact regional stability and upset the strategic balance.
The X-band radar system would boost Japan’s ability to track and intercept missiles from across the Sea of Japan. That was “not conducive to regional nuclear non-proliferation and stability, and will cause an extremely negative impact on the global strategic balance,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said yesterday.
“Some countries or blocs in the region, on the pretext of the North Korea nuclear threat, have unilaterally set up anti-missile systems or conduct bloc cooperation (with the United States),” Hong said.
The comments came after the governor of Japan’s Kyoto region, where the radar will be based, endorsed it last week. The facility will be staffed by up to 160 US service members and civilian contractors.
Meanwhile, China has released a list of technologies and goods banned from export to North Korea because of their possible use in building nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, the Ministry of Commerce said yesterday.
UN resolutions
“It means China is strictly complying with the UN Security Council resolutions,” said Zhang Liangui, an expert on North Korea at China’s Central Party School.
China has repeatedly called for the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and criticized North Korea’s third nuclear test in February. The UN imposed new sanctions following the test.
The 236-page list names dozens of products known as “dual-use technologies,” meaning that although meant for civilian purposes, they can be used in military programs.
“The dual-use products and technologies that are forbidden from being exported to North Korea delineated in this list have uses in weapons of mass destruction,” the commerce ministry said.
Released by the ministry, along with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the China Atomic Energy Authority, the document describes items that could be used to build nuclear and chemical weapons, as well as technology that could build and fuel nuclear reactors.
It also bans the export of several biological agents, including the Ebola virus.
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