Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera will travel to Hawaii in January to visit the U.S. test facility for a land-based missile-defense system that Japan plans to deploy, government sources said.
Japan plans to introduce the Aegis Ashore system to counter the threat posed by North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
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KEYWORDS
China,
U.S.,
North Korea,
Kim Jong Un,
Nuclear weapons,
South Korea,
Itsunori Onodera,
North Korea nuclear crisis,
North Korea-Japan relations,
Donald Trump,
aegis ashore
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