US To Send 2 More Aegis Ships To Japan To Counter North Korea's Missile Threat

US to deploy two additional ballistic missile destroyers in Japan to counter North Korea. Reuters file photo

U.S. To Boost Missile Defenses In Japan Against North Korean Threat -- Bloomberg Businessweek

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today said the U.S. will expand its missile defenses in Japan to counter the North Korean threat while calling on China to act responsibly to resolve disputes over contested islands.

The U.S. will assign two more Aegis-class destroyers to Japan by 2017, expanding its regional deployment of the missile-defense warships to seven, Hagel said at a news conference in Tokyo today after meeting with Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera.

“A key focus for our talks today was the threat posed by North Korea,” Hagel said. “In response to Pyongyang’s pattern of provocative and destabilizing actions, including recent missile launches in violation of UN Security Council resolutions,” the U.S. “is planning to forward-deploy two additional Aegis ballistic missile-defense ships to Japan by 2017.”

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