and mr. takei said the net assessment or mission assessment so i think we need to further study the mission assessment. and america has created the vision and the assessment office has implemented this and make it more concrete. and has formulated policies whenever the contingencies occur. and there is no net assessment of sasb. so now we need of to create those, because we are counsel tir pa -- counterpart with united states. we should have a better realignment between japan and united states in order to consider the full structure. >> thank you. there is actually a member from csb in the audience. they should be grateful for the prop he just gave them. from here i'm going to open up the floor for questions and answers. general iwata kind of stole my first question. especially given yesterday's missile launch by north korea, there were a lot of questions on north korea. particularly focussing on the potential for japan to have a counterattack capabilities. and do you support it, there were very di

if that strategy becomes reality as mr. takei mentioned, so how we should strongly defend the first island chain, so i think over the last four years, i think that's what we really study from now. so with all those changes, the japan have come to the point of revising the national defense program guidelines since four years ago, the situation has changed and in order to adapt ourself to the new change, new revised national defense program guidelines should be put in place and visa vie, the prime minister also gave the instruction to study this. and so what kind of change is necessary? i think government will be thinking about this but my personal view is that the north korea should be further reinforced -- and those alone cannot withstand the many attacks from north korea and therefore in order to farther strengthen japanese capability -- and government already announced that that would be deployed very soon and that should be done quickly and toward china the defense of the southwestern islands, the three -- the services of japa