Tokyo.-The President of the United States, Donald Trump, today defended in Japan the principle of “peace through force” and pledged to strengthen the military power of his country to never lose the leadership. Trump launched this message in a patriotic speech, at an hour in which the United States commemorated Memorial Day, aboard a powerful American warship anchored in a Japanese port that shares the forces of the two countries. My administration is committed to ensuring that America’s military strength remains forever in the first place, “Trump said in front of a thousand military personnel from his country formed inside the ship USS WASP.” In a small period of time, our military resources will be completely rebuilt, and will be stronger, bigger and better than ever before, “the ruler said on the spot, on a military base of the Japanese port of Yokosuka. He said it in the last act of the Final day of an official visit to Japan, started on Saturday and allowed him to meet the new Emperor Nippon, Naruhito, while revising a series of issues with the Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe.
Together they headed this Tuesday an act, first in the helicopter box JS Kaga, anchored also in Yokosuka, where both highlighted their strong bilateral alliance, and then on the USS WASP, where Trump addressed his troops, which cheered widely.
Abe said in the speech he gave to Japanese and American troops aboard the JS Kaga that today was the first time in history in which a U.S. ruler and another from Japan share a tribune to speak to their assembled military.
This fact, said Abe, demonstrates the “robust alliance” that unites the two countries, and Trump highlighted that Japan and the U.S. are united by an “incredible partnership.”
Already before its troops in the belly of the USS WASP and close to a modern fighter plane F35, Trump, in the midst of troops and invitations to two soldiers to be addressed to the present, it praised the capacity that US has to manufacture the best weapons.
“We have equipment, missiles, rockets, tanks, airplanes, ships… No one in the world can build them like we do, “said the American ruler.
Trump noted that since he arrived at the White House in January 2017, his administration has been making “historic investments” in military equipment, and
It only last year allocated funds for 716 billion, 000 dollars.
But he anticipated that this year will increase that figure, taking into account that the country was “depleted” in military resources. “We’ll be at a level where we’ve never been before,” he insisted.
“Two and a half years ago, he stressed, we had airplanes so old that they didn’t make spare parts for them.”
Trump, who was presented to his troops by his wife Melania, closed with this speech a visit that has allowed him to strengthen ties with Japan and his prime minister, with whom he had met eleven times before the contacts of the last days.
At a press conference he shared in Tokyo with Abe on Monday, T
Rump was willing to talk with Iran to overcome the latest tensions, in some steps in which the Japanese prime Minister may have a mediation work.
The American ruler also took the opportunity to reaffirm the confidence he has in the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un, despite the short-range missile launches he made in early May that country.
“The most important thing is that there has been no nuclear or long-range missile testing in two years,” said Trump, who has met with Kim twice, although the last of them, in February, resulted in failure.
Last night, at a gala banquet offered to him by Emperor Naruhito, Trump seized once again to highlight the closeness of Japan and the United States, thanks to preserving, he said, a “treasured alliance.”
