The government is thinking of earmarking research funds in the fiscal 2010 budget to develop a satellite that can detect missile launches, sources said.
The project comes in the wake of North Korea’s April 5 launch of a rocket over Japan that Tokyo, Washington and Seoul believe was a long-range ballistic missile test. The rocket flew over the Tohoku region.
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