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Japan Goes Ballistic over North Korean Missile Test

Japan Goes Ballistic over North Korean Missile Test

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Apr 10, 2012
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Anyone watching the morning news in Tokyo might be forgiven in believing Japan is preparing to go to war. News clips show Aegis missile destroyers steaming out of port and trucks pulling boxy-looking PAC3 missiles covered with tarpaulin. Some are deployed in Tokyo in order, we’re told, “to defend the capital”.

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