DTN News - JAPAN DEFENSE NEWS: Japan Ready For North Korea Missile Launch
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 5, 2012: Japan has completed the deployment of a land-based system of interceptor missiles in preparation for a planned North Korean rocket launch later this month.
The exercise was finalised in Okinawa on Thursday, days after a similar deployment was completed on Monday in Naha, the capital of the Okinawa prefecture.
A Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles unit is seen as a police boat sails past in Ishigaki on Japan's southern island of Ishigaki Island, Okinawa prefecture April 5, 2012. Japan last Friday ordered its military to intercept the North Korean missile Pyongyang plans to launch next month if it poses a direct threat to Japan, a scenario the government considers unlikely.
Japan plans to deploy Aegis radar-equipped destroyers carrying Standard Missile-3 interceptors in the Sea of Japan and the East China Sea, and Patriot Advanced Capability-3 ground-based interceptors on some of Japan's southern islands and in the Tokyo metropolitan area, Defence Minister Naoki Tanaka said. Mandatory Credit.
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