The Russian military was preparing detailed lists of targets for a suspected or possible war with Japan and South Korea, targets that included nuclear power plants and other civilian infrastructure, according to secret files from 2013-2014 to which the Russian military has had access. thanks to Western sources, they detail.
Specifically, and according to the British media, it is a set of Russian military documents that indicate points such as roads, bridges or factories, all of them selected as objectives to stop the “regrouping of troops in areas of operational purpose.”
The first 82 sites on the target list are military in nature, while the rest are civilian infrastructure such as tunnels, bridges and power plants in Japan and South Korea, such as the Japanese Okushiritou radar base.
According to Financial Timesin the documents the fear of the Russian Government for neglecting its eastern borders in the event of a war with NATO is evident. Russia fears, they say, that its forces in the east are vulnerable to American and regional attacks.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made Asia a central issue in his military and economic strategy, strengthening his alliance with China and recruiting 12,000 North Korean soldiers to fight the war in Ukraine.
An arms control expert consulted by the London newspaper highlights that the leaked documents and the deployment of the North Korean Army demonstrate the inevitable connection between Asia and Europe in terms of conflict.
