?Japan mly to destroy N Korea missile?
 

TOKYO: Japan’s newly appointed defence minister on Monday ordered the nation’s military to be ready to destroy any missiles fired by **rth Korea that threaten the country, local media reported.

Tomomi Inada issued the order, public broadcaster NHK said, without mentioning any indication that Pyongyang is preparing to launch such a missile.

Last week Prime Minister Shinzo Abe picked Inada, a close confidante with staunchly nationalist views, as the new defence minister.

NHK said Inada is expected to renew the readiness order every three months so that Tokyo can seamlessly maintain a state of alert.

A Japanese defence ministry spokesman declined to confirm the report.

Her appointment came on Wednesday, the same day **rth Korea, a major security headache for Japan, fired a ballistic missile that landed just 250 kilometres off its coast -- hitting Japanese-controlled waters for the first time.

The US military said the **rth had actually launched two Rodong intermediate-range missiles simultaneously, but one appeared to have exploded on take-off.

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