August 13, 2017

US ally Japan has braced itself for a potential strike by North Korea near the US territory of Guam, with the Japanese military installing four surface-to-air missile interceptors in the country’s west.

Inflammatory rhetoric between the US and North Korea over Pyongyang’s nuclear programme soared to new heights this week when North Korea announced plans to fire rockets near Guam, a western Pacific island that is home to a US military base and around 160,000 people.

Japan installed four PAC-3 missile interceptors on Saturday in four western prefectures, Kyodo News service reported, after Pyongyang warned that its missiles would cross over Shimane, Hiroshima and Kochi prefectures before landing in waters off Guam. Japan “will do its utmost to protect the lives and property of the Japanese people,” Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters while visiting his father’s tomb in Yamaguchi prefecture.

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