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A security "crisis" mainly posed by threats from China is behind Japan's largest military buildup since World War II, including new strike weapons and asymmetric warfare arms, according to a defense strategy report made public Friday. ....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) The Japanese defense minister says a North Korean missile test-launched Friday could potentially reach the entire continental U.S. Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada told reporters that the suspected intercontinental ballistic missile flew 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) at a maximum altitude of about 6,000 kilometers (3,600 miles). ....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile that landed near Japanese waters Friday in its second major weapons test this month that showed a potential ability to launch nuclear strikes on all of the U.S. ....
North Korea fired a suspected long-range missile designed to strike the mainland US on Friday, its neighbours said, a day after the North resumed its testing activities in an apparent protest over US moves to solidify its alliances with South Korea and Japan. ....