Analysts say North Korea's satellite is part of a surveillance technology program meant to improve its ability to strike targets in the event of war.
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks to reporters following North Korea's missile launch on April 13, 2023.Japan on Monday put its ballistic missile defenses on alert and warned that it would shoot down any projectile that threatened its territory after North Korea notified it of a satellite launch between May 31 and June 11.its first military spy satellite and leader Kim Jong Un has approved final preparations for the launch.
"The government recognizes that there is a possibility that the satellite may pass through our country's territory," Japan's chief cabinet secretary, Hirokazu Matsuno, told a regular briefing after North Korea informed the Japanese coast guard of the planned launch. The order by the Japanese defense ministry, the first in response to a North Korean space launch since 2016, comes after Japan indispatched to the East China Sea a destroyer carrying Standard Missile-3 interceptors that can hit targets in space, and sent ground-based PAC-3 missiles, designed to strike warheads closer to the ground, to the Okinawan islands.
Japan expects North Korea to fire the rocket carrying its satellite over the southwest island chain as it did in
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