On 29 March 2016, then-U.S. President candidate Donald Trump suggested that Japan should develop its own nuclear weapons, claiming that it was becoming too expensive for the US to continue to protect Japan from countries such as China, North Korea, and Russia that already have their own nuclear weapons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_nuclear_weapon_program
　
　
◆ 「日本が核を持てない憲法、我々が書いた」　米副大統領
（朝日新聞，2016年8月16日）

　バイデン米副大統領は１５日、日本の核武装を容認することを示唆した共和党大統領候補のトランプ氏を批判し、「核保有国になり得ないとする日本の憲法を我々が書いたことを知らないのか」と発言した。
　
　米政府要人が日本国憲法の起草に関して明言するのは異例。
　
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASJ8J5K19J8JUHBI01N.html


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　>>(Donald Trump) including with nukes, yes.
　
　
◆ Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace
(FOX News, April 3, 2016 11:00am-12:01pm PDT)

>>(Chris Wallace) you weighed in this week on foreign policy, national security. here is what you said about japan and south korea defending themselves against north korea.

>>(Donald Trump) no problem with south korea and japan having nuclear weapons.

>>(Chris Wallace) at some point we have to say, you know what we're better off if japan protects itself against this maniac in north korea. better off if south korea is going to start to protect itself.

>>(Donald Trump) we're defending japan. we can't afford it.

>>(Chris Wallace) i understand. but the question -- that's not the question. the question is, letting them develop their own nuclear program. for more than half a century, u.s. policy has been that we protect those countries with our nuclear umbrella so they don't --

>>(Donald Trump) and lose a fortune doing it.

>>(Chris Wallace) i understand. but the idea is not to have a nuclear arms race in --

>>(Donald Trump) ready --

>>(Chris Wallace) in the northern pacific on the korean peninsula. you want to throw that away.

>>(Donald Trump) are you ready? i'm not throwing anything away. this is commonsense. like trade. we lose on every trade deal. sometimes you're better off saying wait a minute, we're defending japan, we're -- what we're doing is costing us a fortune. and not only japan, south korea, we have 28,000 soldiers on the line. and part of that defense is nukes, right? at some point, they have to pay us because we cannot continue --

>>(Chris Wallace) they do pay us.

>>(Donald Trump) they pay us peanuts.

>>(Chris Wallace) $2 billion in japan.

>>(Donald Trump) that's peanuts compared to what we're talking about.

>>(Chris Wallace) you want to have a nuclear arms race on the korean peninsula?

>>(Donald Trump) in many ways -- i say this -- the world is changing. right now you have pakistan and you have north korea and you have china and russia and india and you have the united states. many other countries have nukes. it's not like nobody has them. north korea has nukes. japan has a problem with that. they have a big problem with that. maybe they would be better off if they defend themselves.

>>(Chris Wallace) with nukes?

>>(Donald Trump) including with nukes, yes.

>>(Chris Wallace) south korea with nukes.

>>(Donald Trump) they're right next door. you already have it, chris. you already have a nuclear arms race. when a guy like kasich gets up and talks about trump wants to give everybody missiles. i don't want to give missiles. i'd leave it the way is, my number one choice is leave it the way it is. but they have to pay us. we cannot afford to continue to lose the billions and billions of dollars that we're losing in order to defend japan, and germany and south korea and saudi arabia.

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https://archive.org/details/FOXNEWSW_20160403_180000_Fox_News_Sunday_With_Chris_Wallace/


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