{"id":70193,"date":"2025-03-17T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/17\/japan-long-range-missiles-north-korea-china-us-security-pact"},"modified":"2025-03-17T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:26:49","slug":"japan-to-deploy-long-range-missiles-able-to-hit-north-korea-and-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70193","title":{"rendered":"Japan to deploy long-range missiles able to hit North Korea and China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Planned missiles on Kyushu said to be part of \u2018counterstrike capabilities\u2019, as fears grow over US security pact<\/p>\n<p>Japan is planning to deploy long-range missiles on its southern island of Kyushu amid concerns around the Trump administration\u2019s stance towards its security pacts and continuing regional tensions.<\/p>\n<p>The missiles, with a range of about 1,000km, would be capable of hitting targets in North Korea and China\u2019s coastal regions, and are due to be deployed next year in two bases with existing missile garrisons. They would bolster the defences of the strategically important Okinawa island chain and are part of Japan\u2019s development of \u201ccounterstrike capabilities\u201d in the event it is attacked, according to reports from Kyodo News agency, citing government sources.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/17\/japan-long-range-missiles-north-korea-china-us-security-pact\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planned missiles on Kyushu said to be part of \u2018counterstrike capabilities\u2019, as fears grow over US security pactJapan is planning to deploy long-range missiles on its southern island of Kyushu amid concerns around the Trump administration\u2019s stance towar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"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":[41,50,415,88,40,554,45,47,631,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-donald-trump","category-japan","category-north-korea","category-trump-administration","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-us-politics","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70193","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\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70194,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70193\/revisions\/70194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}