UPI:
Aug. 17 (UPI) — Japan is planning to deploy a land-based Aegis missile defense system to counter North Korea’s growing missile provocations.
Tokyo, wary of Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile development programs, said Japan must now contend with “a new level of threat,” Kyodo News reported Thursday.
The decision to deploy a land-based component of a missile interceptor system, the Aegis Ashore, had been made in June.
Plans are being expedited following two tests of what North Korea has claimed is its intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-14.
