On Aug. 10, North Korea made an unprecedented announcement that it would develop a plan to test-fire four Hwasong-12 ballistic missiles on a path it said would cross Shimane, Hiroshima and Kochi prefectures, to land in the sea near the island of Guam.
The announcement of the detailed flight plan immediately raised a critical question in the minds of many Japanese: Would the nation¡¯s anti-ballistic missile defense systems be able to intercept the North Korean missiles?
Experts seem divided over the capabilities of the ?1.6 trillion defense systems.
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