Block+PIC


 * Counterplan Text: The United States federal government should end joint intercontinental missile defense development programs with Japan. The United States federal government should end conditions on joint missile defense deployment with Japan that involve third-party exports of the Standard Missile-3 Block 2A missile.**

The United States regards …Japan from the Sea of Okhotsk. The government is set to allow … premise that the weapons should be strictly controlled. Summary: So far developments…defense planning and operations.
 * The counterplan competes – Block 1A is deployed with U.S. cooperation now, Block 2A is still under development.**
 * Ko, 1AC Author, 2010 (Ko Young Dae, contributor to Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea, “U.S. Military Strategy on the Korean Peninsula and Missile Defense in Northeast Asia”, May 9,** [])
 * The counterplan solves all future BMD deployment – ending pressure ends Japan’s only incentive for exports.**
 * Kyodo News 2010** (“Tokyo to relax export ban, send missiles to third countries,” July 25, [])
 * Kyodo News 2010** (“Tokyo to relax export ban, send missiles to third countries,” July 25, [])
 * No risk of offense – Block 1A isn’t destabilizing.**
 * Rubinstein 200**7 (Gregg A., consultant on Security, Trade and Technology at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, September 5, “US-Japan Missile Defense Cooperation: Current Status, Future Prospects”, http://www.japanconsidered.com/OccasionalPapers/Rubinstein%20USJA%20BMD%20article%20090507.pdf)