The Financial Times has reported that the Russian military has developed lists of targets containing 160 sites in Japan and South Korea in the event of war.
The article published on Tuesday says the British paper has seen secret documents Russian military planners had drawn up until 2014.
The attack plans were focused on training officers on the assumption that war with NATO has expanded to East Asia.
The first 82 sites on Russia’s target list are military defense facilities such as the central and regional command headquarters, and air bases and naval installations.
Among them are photos of Japan’s Air Self-Defense Force’s radar base on Okushiri Island in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido, along with precise measurements of target buildings and facilities.
The remainder are civilian infrastructure sites such as Japan’s Kanmon tunnel linking Honshu and Kyushu islands, and a nuclear complex in Tokai Village in Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo.
In South Korea, the list includes industrial sites such as a steelwork in the southeastern city of Pohang and chemical factories in Busan.
The list of targets for the two countries was contained in a presentation aimed at explaining the capabilities of Russia’s cruise missiles.
The presentation also included a report by Russia’s military on a mission of a pair of Tu-95 strategic bombers, sent to test the air defenses of Japan and South Korea in February 2014. The bombers recorded the responses by the two countries’ aircraft such as whether they were armed or not.
The article says the documents are still seen as relevant to Russian strategy.
