Japan Is Setting Missile Defense System After N. Korea Warned About Satellite Launch

 

Japan has put its ballistic missile defences on alert and vowed to shoot down any projectile that threatened its territory after North Korea notified it of a satellite launch between May 31 and June 11. 

Japan’s Defense Ministry also warned it would destroy any North Korean missile that enters its territory. 

Defence Minister Yasukazu Hamada instructed troops to ready PAC-3 surface-to-air missiles in southwestern Japan, including Okinawa and nearby islands, in an area believed to be under a flight path of the North Korean rocket.