{"id":13685,"date":"2014-04-06T05:19:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T05:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/u-s-to-send-destroyer-war-ships-to-japan\/"},"modified":"2014-04-06T05:19:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T05:19:33","slug":"u-s-to-send-destroyer-war-ships-to-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/u-s-to-send-destroyer-war-ships-to-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to Send Destroyer War Ships to Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{The United States moved on Sunday to reassure Tokyo over its mounting security concerns, saying it would send more missile defense ships to Japan following North Korean launches and use a high level trip to warn China against abusing its “great power.”}}<\/p>\n

Japan has watched with alarm in recent weeks as North Korea carried out a series of missile launches, including firing two medium-range missiles capable of hitting the U.S. ally.<\/p>\n

Tokyo has also voiced growing anxiety over China’s military buildup and increasingly assertive behavior in a territorial dispute over East China Sea islands.<\/p>\n

U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced that two Navy destroyers equipped with missile defense systems would be deployed to Japan by 2017. It was a response, he said, to provocations from the North, which has also threatened to carry out a “new form” of nuclear test.<\/p>\n

The announcement followed other steps taken by the Pentagon to bolster its military posture in Japan, including an October decision to position a second X-band missile defense radar there. That radar is expected to be operational this year.<\/p>\n

“These steps will greatly enhance our ability to defend both Japan and the U.S. homeland from North Korean ballistic missile threats,” Hagel told reporters at Japan’s defense ministry.<\/p>\n

Narushige Michishita, associate professor and security expert at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, said the moves were “part of the U.S. attempt to bolster reassurances vis-\u00e0-vis Japan.”<\/p>\n

It also fits within the context of broader American efforts to bolster its military presence in the region, part of a strategic “rebalance” or “pivot” toward Asia that President Barack Obama will emphasize during his trip this month to Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and the Philippines.<\/p>\n

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