North Korea warns Japan against deploying long-range missiles in Kyushu, KCNA says

North Korea warns Japan against deploying long-range missiles to Kyushu

Japan’s military test-launched a surface-to-air missile at an Air Systems Research Center, Tokyo.

Russia's silence speaks volumes for North Korea

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Japan's plan to deploy missiles raises concern

Japan is considering deployment of long-range missiles on the southwestern island of Kyushu, signaling what analysts warn is a shift from a defensive to a more offensive military strategy.

North Korea’s alarming military buildup

In 2021, Kim Jong-un announced that North Korea would have an intercontinental ballistic missile, submarines capable of launching ballistic missiles, a hydrogen bomb and hypersonic missiles.

North Korea warns Japan against deploying long-range missiles in Kyushu, KCNA says

North Korea warned Japan against deploying long-range missiles in the Kyushu region in March 2026, saying such attack capability will "bring about constant escalation of tension" in Northeast Asia, state media KCNA said on Thursday.

DPRK denounces new signs of revival of militarism in Japan

A statement from the Foreign Ministry’s Institute of Japanese Affairs asserts that Tokyo’s plan to station these missiles in southwestern Japan, under the guise of acquiring “preemptive strike capability,” is concerning. The statement highlights that a modified Type 12 ground-to-sea missile, with a range of nearly 1,000 kilometers, could reach both the DPRK and mainland China. Furthermore, Japan intends to deploy hypersonic and fast glide missil…