Japan panel wants "first strikes" against enemies: report

2009/05/24 20:32:41 @Reuters: International News

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese ruling party panel is to propose that pre-emptive strikes against enemy bases be allowed despite the country's pacifist constitution, Kyodo news agency said on Monday, weeks after a North Korean missile launch. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=1fB9YWSwaCw:l8BkCxEQEDY:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=1fB9YWSwaCw:l8BkCxEQEDY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=1fB9YWSwaCw:l8BkCxEQEDY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=1fB9YWSwaCw:l8BkCxEQEDY:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=1fB9YWSwaCw:l8BkCxEQEDY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/1fB9YWSwaCw" height="1" width="1"/
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