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DF 16 MISSILES

Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 9, 2016
Pyongyang plans late-June legislative assembly
North Korea said on Thursday that it will convene a session of its parliamentary in late June, following a rare congress of the country's ruling Workers' Party in May that cemented young leader Kim Jong Un's control of the isolated state.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 14, 2016
Pyongyang ICBM capability growing, requires U.S. to boost missile defenses: Washington
U.S. intelligence believes North Korea's ability to reach the United States with an intercontinental ballistic missile is low, but its capabilities will increase, making continued investment in missile defense essential, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 30, 2016
Missile-maker adapts guidance systems for self-driving cars
Mitsubishi Electric Corp., a supplier of air-to-air missiles to Japan's armed forces, is looking to adapt the technologies it originally developed for military use to help autonomous driving cars detect obstacles and avoid collisions.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 22, 2016
Beijing's Paracel military buildup seen as precursor to Spratly ambitions
From listening posts to jet fighter deployments and now surface-to-air missiles, China's expanding facilities in the Paracel Islands are a signal of long-term plans to strengthen its military reach across the disputed South China Sea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 19, 2016
U.S. should stop lecturing China about North Korea
China has demonstrated it has yet to be convinced to destroy its own ally and strengthen America's position in Northeast Asia.
JAPAN
Feb 12, 2016
Japanese radar components used by North Korean navy: U.N. report
North Korea's navy reconfigures Japanese-made civilian radar systems, according to a document compiled by experts investigating U.N. sanctions.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 10, 2016
Japan reimposes ban on visits by North Korean nationals and ships
Tokyo announced Wednesday new unilateral economic sanctions on North Korea following its Jan. 6 nuclear test and the launch Sunday of what Japan denounced as a long-range ballistic missile.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2016
What the next U.S. leader should know about N. Korea
Current U.S. policy deals with the North Korea of the past, not the North Korea of today.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 8, 2016
How far has the North's missile technology come?
North Korea's latest rocket launch raises a lot of questions about just how far its ballistic missile technology has come.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 23, 2015
Russia's Syria-bound cruise missile flyovers prompt Iraq to ground northern flights
Iraq said it was suspending flights between Baghdad and the northern cities of Irbil and Sulaimaniya for two days starting on Monday due to military traffic from Russia's air campaign in neighboring Syria.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jul 28, 2015
India's 'Missile Man' ex-President Abdul Kalam dies at 83
Former Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who was known as the country's "Missile Man" for his engagement in the country's missile and nuclear development, died Monday after he collapsed during a lecture in Shillong, northeastern India, the Press Trust of India reported. He was 83.
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 10, 2015
Japan interested in joining NATO anti-ship missile consortium
Maritime Self-Defense Force officers traveled to a NATO meeting in The Hague in May to learn more about the consortium, says Reuters, citing unnamed sources.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 14, 2015
North Korea fires three short-range missiles into Sea of Japan
North Korea fired three short-range ship-to-ship missiles off its eastern coast into the Sea of Japan on Sunday, according to South Korea.
WORLD
May 29, 2015
Dissidents say North Korean atomic, missile experts visited Iran site in April amid nuclear deal talks
An exiled Iranian opposition group said on Thursday a delegation of North Korean nuclear and missile experts visited a military site near Tehran in April amid talks between world powers and Iran over its nuclear program.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 22, 2015
Japan, Britain agree closer on security cooperation
In their first-ever two-plus-two talks, Japan and Britain agreed Wednesday to enhance security cooperation, including the possible joint development of missile technology and an exercise to evacuate nationals from an overseas contingency.
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2014
Japan won't express intention to gain ability to strike missile sites, source says
Japan does not plan to mention, in revised guidelines on defense cooperation with the United States, the goal of acquiring the ability to attack enemy ballistic missile launch sites, a Tokyo government source said Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 11, 2014
Japan in tightrope diplomacy with North Korea over abductees, missiles
Further missile tests by Pyongyang could undermine Tokyo's assurances that negotiations with North Korea on the abduction issue will not impair coordinated action with the U.S. and South Korea.
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2014
MHI-made missile component can be exported to U.S. for transfer to Qatar
The government plans to allow Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to export a component used in an earlier version of Patriot surface-to-air missiles to a U.S. defense equipment company in accordance with its new arms export control rules stipulated earlier this year, a government source said Tuesday.
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 27, 2014
North Korean missile launch won't hinder abduction talks: Onodera
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Friday that North Korea's latest short-range missile launch will not prevent the two countries from holding talks next week on the abduction issue.
JAPAN
Apr 5, 2014
MSDF vessel to strike new North missiles
A Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer in the Sea of Japan is ordered to shoot down any ballistic missiles launched by North Korea.

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