{"id":19725,"date":"2020-06-26T15:39:33","date_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/26\/japan-backs-out-of-costly-us-missile-system-despite-imminent-threat-from-nk"},"modified":"2020-06-26T15:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T06:39:33","slug":"japan-backs-out-of-costly-us-missile-system-despite-imminent-threat-from-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19725","title":{"rendered":"Japan backs out of costly US missile system despite &#8216;imminent threat&#8217; from North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision raises possibility Japan would create its own first-strike capability, which some say violates its constitution<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/japan\">Japan<\/a> has scrapped plans to buy a multibillion-dollar missile defence system from the US that was intended to boost its ability to counter the \u201cserious and imminent\u201d threat posed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/north-korea\">North Korea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s defence minister, Taro Kono, conceded the land-based Aegis Ashore system would prove too costly and time consuming because it would require a hardware upgrade to ensure booster rockets did not fall on populated areas near host sites.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/26\/japan-backs-out-of-costly-us-missile-system-despite-imminent-threat-from-nk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision raises possibility Japan would create its own first-strike capability, which some say violates its constitutionJapan has scrapped plans to buy a multibillion-dollar missile defence system from the US that was intended to boost its ability to c&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,40,441,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-north-korea","category-nuclear-weapons","category-us-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19726,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19725\/revisions\/19726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}