Globalization is already a fact of life in the international-missile and military-armaments "community."
Put another way, no country's weapons arsenal is completely homemade; every nation relies on some imports, some more than others.
This was the point made indirectly by two young members of Japan's House of Councilors recently at a press conference promoting their article in the current issue of a leading political magazine on "Japanese components used in the North Korean Taepodong missile."