Us-japan Missile Deal
Japan confirms its scrapping US missile defense system
Japan's National Security Council has endorsed plans to cancel the deployment of two costly land-based U.S. missile defense systems aimed at bolstering the country's capability against threats from North Korea, the country's defense minister said Thursday. The council made its decision Wednesday, and now the government will need to enter negotiations with the U.S. about what to do with payments and the purchase contract already made for the Aegis Ashore systems. The council is expected to also revise Japan's basic defense plan later this year to update the missile defense program and scale up the country's defense posture. Defense Minister Taro Kono announced the plan to scrap the systems earlier this month after it was found that the safety of one of the two planned host communities could not be ensured without a hardware redesign that would be too time consuming and costly. The Japanese government in 2017 approved adding the two Aegis Ashore systems to enhance the country's curre
US to sell missiles worth over $133 mn to Japan amid North Korea threat
The sale would also follow through on Donald Trump's commitment to provide additional defensive capabilities to treaty allies
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