{"id":431272,"date":"2017-10-23T06:19:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T06:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/10\/23\/japan-pm-promises-to-deal-with-north-korea-threat\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T06:19:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T06:19:26","slug":"japan-pm-promises-to-deal-with-north-korea-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/10\/23\/japan-pm-promises-to-deal-with-north-korea-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan PM promises to deal with North Korea threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has promised to \u201cdeal firmly\u201d with North Korea after exit polls suggested he won a clear victory in Sunday\u2019s election.<\/p>\n

Mr Abe had called an early election for an increased mandate to deal with \u201ccrises\u201d facing Japan, including the threat from Pyongyang.<\/p>\n

Local media report Mr Abe\u2019s ruling coalition has retained its two-thirds majority in parliament.<\/p>\n

This paves the way for Mr Abe to amend Japan\u2019s post-war pacifist constitution.<\/p>\n

The prime minister has previously called for the existence of the country\u2019s armed forces to be formalised, a controversial move which he says is needed to strengthen Japan\u2019s defence but which critics say is a step towards re-militarisation.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the exit polls, Mr Abe said: \u201cAs I promised in the election, my imminent task is to firmly deal with North Korea\u2026. For that, strong diplomacy is required.\u201d<\/p>\n

The BBC\u2019s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in Tokyo says Mr Abe\u2019s victory is partly thanks to Pyongyang\u2019s actions.<\/p>\n

Just two months ago his popularity was plummeting as he was caught up in two messy political scandals, says our correspondent, but he enjoyed a sudden recovery after North Korea fired two missiles over the Japanese island of Hokkaido in recent months.<\/p>\n

Local news outlets reported that Mr Abe\u2019s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) coalition with the Komeito party has won 312 of the 465 seats in the lower house of Japan\u2019s parliamentary Diet \u2013 which gives them the power to table a revision to the constitution.<\/p>\n

Mr Abe had previously announced he wanted to revise a clause which renounces war, known as Article 9, to formally recognise Japan\u2019s military, which is known as the \u201cself-defence forces\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said he was ditching a previously-set deadline of 2020 to achieve the revision so that he would have more time to \u201cgain support from as many people as possible\u201d for the highly contentious task.<\/p>\n

Even if an amendment to the constitution is passed and approved by both houses in the Diet \u2013 which Mr Abe\u2019s coalition controls \u2013 it still needs to be put to a public vote in a referendum.<\/p>\n

Mr Abe two years ago successfully managed to push for a re-interpretation of the constitution to allow troops to fight overseas under certain circumstances, which attracted widespread protests.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n

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