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N. Korean missile launchpad moved into firing position - reports
NEWS ADVISORY: N. Korea missile launcher in raised position: Japan defense
official
Several Patriot Advance Capability-3 missile interceptor units have been deployed in Japan over the last few days to defend key military units and the country's capital city, Tokyo. One of the units was set up at the Defense Ministry's headquarters in Ichigaya, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
N. Korean missile launchpad moved into firing position - reports
A
North Korean missile launcher has moved into the firing position with
rockets facing skyward, Kyodo reports, citing a Japan defense
official.
RT,
11
April, 2013
The
Japanese government is on high alert, citing indications that
Pyongyang might soon launch ballistic missiles at its island
neighbor.
Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Thursday
morning that so far Tokyo was responding by “gathering a variety of
information ... with a sense of tension,” according to Kyodo.
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Several Patriot Advance Capability-3 missile interceptor units have been deployed in Japan over the last few days to defend key military units and the country's capital city, Tokyo. One of the units was set up at the Defense Ministry's headquarters in Ichigaya, in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
The
Patriots’ deployment followed Japan's deployment of Aegis
destroyers equipped with SM-3 interceptor missiles.
Japan
authorized its forces to shoot down anything fired at it from North
Korea.
A
Japan Self-Defence Forces soldier stands near units of Patriot
Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles at the Defence Ministry in
Tokyo April 10, 2013. Japan has deployed ground-based PAC-3
interceptors, as well as Aegis radar-equipped destroyers carrying
Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors in response to North Korea's
threats and actions, according
to its government.(Reuters / Issei Kato)
The
indication of the new North Korean readiness follows South Korean and
US forces' announcement of an upgrade of their surveillance alert
status to the highest possible level before coming into a state of
war.
It
also comes amid revelations from South Korea's Yonhap news agency,
with a government source saying Pyongyang is preparing multiple
launches of shorter-range Scud and Rodong missiles. “There are
clear signs that the North could simultaneously fire off Musudan,
Scud and Nodong missiles,” an anonymous military source was quoted
as saying on Wednesday.
The
military alert status is now at Watchcon 2, reflecting a perceived
“vital threat” from North Korean missiles after the North warned
of a ‘thermonuclear’ war and asked foreigners to leave South
Korea.
To
counter the threat, two Aegis destroyers with SPY-1 radar have been
placed on standby by the South along the Korean Peninsula.
The
South Korean military is also operating early warning aircraft Peace
Eye and ground-based missile defense radar system Green Pine to
counter a potential rocket launch from the north.
On
Tuesday, the commander of US Pacific Command said that the US is
ready capable of countering the missile threat.
South Korea raises surveillance on North
South
Korea says it has raised its surveillance of North Korea after
Pyongyang moved one or more intermediate-range missiles in readiness
for a possible launch.
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April, 2013
Admiral
Samuel Locklear, the commander of American forces in the Pacific
region, says the US military believes North Korea had moved an
unspecified number of Musudan missiles to its east coast.
The
North has been threatening the United States and South Korea on an
almost a daily basis in recent weeks, although the threats appear to
be aimed partly at boosting internal support for its young leader Kim
Jong-un, Reuters reports.
Pyongyang
has turned up its shrill rhetoric in recent weeks after the United
Nations Security Council imposed sanctions for the state's third
nuclear weapons test in February this year.
Meanwhile,
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has warned the crisis on the Korean
peninsula may become uncontrollable. He is again urging North Korea
to tone down "its provocative rhetoric" and to keep open a
joint North-South Korean industrial complex.
Pyongyang
has been making bellicose threats against South Korea, Japan and US
bases, and now North Korean employees have not reported for work at
the complex, suspending one of the few points of co-operation between
the Koreas.
North
Korea has asked foreign companies, organisations and tourists in
South Korea to consider leaving for their own safety.
Following
the threats issued by Pyongyang, Japan has deployed missile
interceptors to the centre of Tokyo as a precautionary measure.
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