{"id":45772,"date":"2017-10-04T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=45772"},"modified":"2017-10-04T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:27:27","slug":"japan-admits-kim-jong-uns-missiles-wont-be-shot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/japan-admits-kim-jong-uns-missiles-wont-be-shot-down.html","title":{"rendered":"Has North Korea WON? Japan admits Kim Jong-un&#8217;s missiles WON&#8217;T be shot down"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Has North Korea WON? Japan admits Kim Jong-un&#8217;s missiles WON&#8217;T be shot down<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The communist state has risked war by launching ballistic missiles over northern Japan twice in recent months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">One of the rockets was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) fired towards the US territory of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">On both occasions Japan did not attempt to shoot down the missiles despite sparking mass evacuations across the nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has branded North Korea an \u201cunprecedented threat\u201d to the country\u2019s security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">But today minister of defence Itsunori Onodera said neither missile launch posed any threat to Japanese territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He said: \u201cThe recent missile tests by North Korea passed at high altitude and there was no fear of them falling in our territory or territorial waters so we did not shoot them down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Onodera has ruled out shooting down missiles in the future \u2013 giving Kim free rein for future tests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He said: \u201cWhether it is Japan or any other country, I think that shooting down a ballistic missile could be construed as a military action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cUnless you judge it is an attack on your own country, I think it is difficult to shoot down such missiles.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Analysts claim Japan did not shoot down the missiles because its defence systems do not have the capability to shoot them down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">On Tuesday, North Korea state media threatened to engulf Japan \u201cin flames in a moment\u201d if nuclear war breaks out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Nuclear weapons will be unleashed on Japan if it continues to push for sanctions against the secretive state, Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The US is considering shooting down North Korean ballistic missiles even if they do not pose a threat to its territories or allies, a security official told CNN last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/649730\/japan-north-korea-missiles-shoot-down-kim-jong-un-itsunori-onodera<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/japan-admits-kim-jong-uns-missiles-wont-be-shot-down.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has North Korea WON? Japan admits Kim Jong-un&#8217;s missiles WON&#8217;T be shot down The communist state has risked war by launching ballistic missiles over northern Japan twice in recent months. 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