Japan Bullet:
Japan’s latest draft defense white paper says North Korea remains a serious threat. It says Japan will step up its capabilities to counter ballistic missile attacks.
The draft of the annual report says it was significant that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un clearly committed to denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula in his June 12th summit with the United States.
But it says given the North’s deployment of hundreds of ballistic missiles within range of Japan, and its nuclear and missile development, the country remains an unprecedented, serious and immediate threat.
The report says Japan is set to strengthen its comprehensive capabilities to counter ballistic missile attacks by introducing the new ground-based ballistic missile defense system Aegis Ashore, and other means.
