Minister Hamada ordered the country’s forces to prepare for the deployment of destroyers equipped with SM-3 missile interceptors. Photo: Globovision
this saturday, Japan asked his military forces to be ready shot down a North Korean ballistic missile after Pyongyang authorized this week to launch its first military spy satellite. “(There is) the possibility of ordering destructive actions against ballistic missiles and others,” Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said in a statement.
Putting a satellite into orbit requires the use of long-range projectiles, but the North Korean state has been barred from launching it, ever since The United Nations views such exercises as a test of ballistic missile technology.
Minister Hamada urged troops to “implement necessary measures to limit damage if a ballistic missile is downed.”
He also ordered the nation’s troops to stand by deployment of equipped destroyers with SM-3 missile interceptors, as well as military units in southern Okinawa Prefecture that can operate Patriot PAC-3.
Meanwhile, the foreign ministers of the G7, the group of seven most advanced economies, called on North Korea last Tuesday to “refrain” from carrying out any new missile launches or nuclear tests.
The call by the G7 (Japan, United States, Canada, Germany, France, Italy and United Kingdom) follows Pyongyang’s intensification of its weapons program, which this month launched its first solid-fuel ballistic projectile, a major advance for North Korea. Soldier.
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