Japan to scrap costly land-based U.S. missile defense system

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS | Monday, June 15, 2020 8:11 a.m.13 minutes ago

TOKYO — Japan’s Defense Ministry said Monday that it has decided to stop unpopular plans to deploy two costly land-based U.S. missile defense systems aimed at bolstering the country’s capability against threats from North Korea.

Defense Minister Taro Kono told reporters that he decided to “stop the deployment process” of the Aegis Ashore systems 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.

(asterisk)Considering the cost and time it would require, I had no choice but judge that pursuing the plan is not logical,” Kono said.

The Japanese government in 2017 approved adding the two missile defense systems to bolster the country’s current defenses consisting of Aegis-equipped destroyers at sea and Patriot missiles on land.



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[pecosbob]

1. Just say no to the military industrial complex

[McKim]

2. Beautiful!!!

Beautiful!!!! More need to step up and stop investing in Death and start investing in Life!

[roamer65]

3. I bet they will buy a Russian system.

That’s gonna be a real watershed moment if they do.

[hardluck]

4. I'll take that bet. Nt.