A story from a reader:

My freshman year in college George Schultz came to speak, and discussed
the Korea problem. He argued that the possibility of a nuclear Japan is
key (“China is as allergic to a nuclear Japan as Russia was to a nuclear
Germany” if memory serves). The highlight was afterwards, when some
lefty comp-lit professor told him that “no one in Japan wants the bomb.
Everyone in the region wants to end the cycles of hatred that plague
them by embracing cultures of understanding.” Schultz responded simply
with, “Really? Is that what the Prime Minister of Japan told you?
Because last week he told me differently on the phone.” She promptly
found some hole to crawl into and deconstruct.