Japanese military officials are telling Reuters that the country’s ballistic missile defense (BMD) system will not be able to fend off a missile attack from North Korea as Pyongyang had made advances in its ballistic missile technology over the past two decades.
By Website of the Japan Ministry of Defense (防衛省) (http://www.mod.go.jp/e/jdf/no36/activities.html) [GJSTUv1 or Attribution], via Wikimedia Commons
“There is a limit to what our current ballistic missile defense system can achieve,” an anonymous official was saying.
Instead the country will have to rely on the U.S. to defend the nation from a barrage of missiles coming from the North until planned upgrades to its own BMD system are implemented.