Japan's defense chief wants to speed up joint missile shield with US

Posted on: Jul. 6th, 2006 || Source: mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp | E-mail Article | Print Article

Japan's defense chief said Thursday that Tokyo wants to speed up efforts to establish a missile defense shield with the United States to guard against the threat posed by North Korea.

"In addition to building monitoring radar networks, we would like to cooperate with the United States and put our joint missile interception into shape as quickly as possible," Defense Chief Fukushiro Nukaga told a parliamentary committee in the wake of North Korea's missile tests on Wednesday.

The United States and Japan have been working to jointly develop a missile defense system and last month agreed to expand their cooperation on a joint ballistic missile defense shield, committing themselves to joint production of interceptor missiles.

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