Japan reaffirms 'no troop dispatch' to Korean Peninsula without consent
Foreign affairsAug 5, 2015
Japan reaffirmed Wednesday it would not send its troops to the Korean Peninsula without a request or prior consent from South Korea even though the country is expanding the role of its self-defense forces, the Defense Ministry in Seoul said. Earlier, Japan stressed that Tokyo would never send troops to the Peninsula even for a contingency without permission from the Seoul government. "Japan's defense minister is explaining to its assembly on its position that (Japanese self-defense forces) w