The Defense Ministry is considering deploying the Patriot-3 antiballistic missile defense system on Ishigaki Island and Okinawa Island to possibly shoot down the rocket North Korea says it will launch next month with a satellite onboard, a senior vice minister said Tuesday.
Shu Watanabe revealed the idea during a graduation speech at the Maritime Self-Defense Force cadet school in Etajima, Hiroshima Prefecture.
The ministry is also considering deploying an Aegis destroyer in the Sea of Japan to defend Tokyo in case the North Korean rocket veers off course, the government sources said.
(Japan Times)
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