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originally posted by: D8Tee
a reply to: Xcathdra
Thats a touchy situation there.
I don't believe that China favors US involvement, that buffer zone they have in place works to their favor.
originally posted by: TheLotLizard
a reply to: Sagacity
China has a treaty to defend North Korea just as the U.S. has a treaty to defend South Korea.
originally posted by: TheLotLizard
a reply to: Xcathdra
The odds of winning a war against Russia, China,and North Korea? I wouldn't bet on it.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: dianajune
No it isn't. It's only an act of war if it lands on Japanese territory. If it landed in Japanese waters, it was in the EEZ. That's international waters, but under Japanese control for the purpose of development and resources.
Territorial waters or a territorial sea as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea,[1] is a belt of coastal waters extending at most 12 nautical miles (22.2 km; 13.8 mi) from the baseline (usually the mean low-water mark) of a coastal state. The territorial sea is regarded as the sovereign territory of the state , although foreign ships (civilian) are allowed innocent passage through it, or transit passage for straits; this sovereignty also extends to the airspace over and seabed below.
originally posted by: Zaphod58
a reply to: Alien Abduct
Territorial waters are different from the EEZ. So far all their missiles have landed in the EEZ not territorial waters.