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Sunday, March 17, 2013

Taiwan develops 'medium-range missile'

Hsiung Feng 2E |Taiwan has developed its first medium-range guided missile that could be used against former rival China, according to a former defence minister in a new book cited by a media report Saturday.

Michael Tsai, a politician turned defence minister in the former government of the China-sceptic Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), revealed in his book due to be published on Sunday that the military successfully developed the missile back in 2008, the Liberty Times said.

In response to the report the country's defence ministry rounded on Tsai, telling AFP that disclosure of the information "may endanger national security".

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