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The Self-Defense Forces began deploying units over the weekend to Okinawa and the East China Sea to prepare for North Korea's planned rocket launch sometime between April 12 and April 16.
On Sunday, a Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel carrying PAC-3 surface-to-air missiles left Nagoya for Okinawa, while an SDF aerial reconnaissance unit departed from Hiroshima, NHK reported.
On Saturday, the Aegis ship Kirishima, with sea-based interceptor missiles, sailed from its Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture for the East China Sea. It will rendezvous with two other Aegis destroyers and move into position to shoot down the North Korean rocket if it flies over Japanese territory, Defense Minister Naoki Tanaka said.
© Japan Today
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noriyosan73
Is there a ceiling for the glass house? Is there a UN international agreement on the altitude level that can be controlled by a country? How high is it?It is an important question otherwise every satellite including the ISS is vulnerable. Of course, the ISS is way beyond the altitude that the NK rocket can achieve. Headline: "The missile was beyond the international airspace altitude, and therefore, did not justify an attack." Another waste of money, but the training was interesting.
shashinka
I think it was 30km on the LSL and 150 on the USP.
gaijinTechie
If hit, the action will be explained with security issues, but considering how lame the whaling excuse is, there is a slim chance that North Korean government (who attacked South Korean military base just because they fired shells into waters claimed by the North) will believe.
Let's hope the North Koreans don't take after J-gov, now that JAL is flying to Europe awfully close to North Korea.