Nutty ol' Kim Jong Il

North Korea said that there was no need for Japan to attend the renewed six-party talks because Japan is just a state belonging to the US. Is it wrong? Other than leeching a military off the US and depending on the US for foreign policy (other than Japan's "money diplomacy"), what has Japan done independently since the end of WW2 other than anger and insult other countries with official visits to the Yasukuni shrine? Well, Abe has promised to change some of that.