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Japan plans to shoot down N. Korea missile

By Choe Sang-Hun and Martin Fackler

 |  New York Times  

  March 31, 2012

Japan is deploying guided-missile destroyers and anti-aircraft batteries with orders to shoot down a North Korean rocket if it falls toward Japanese territory, Japan’s defense minister said Friday. The move appears to ratchet up the tensions surrounding the launch of what North Korea says is a rocket carrying a satellite, but the United States and its allies fear is actually a test of a long-range ballistic missile.

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