DTN News - JAPAN DEFENSE NEWS: Japan Deployed Patriot In Tokyo April 7, 2012 For North Korea Missile Launch
(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - April 7, 2012: Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) land-to-air missiles are deployed, with cherry blossoms in full bloom, at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo April 7, 2012. Japan 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. (Photo - Reuters)
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