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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Japan Opposes Extending Korea's Missile Range


Tokyo is about 1,160 km from Seoul and Osaka about 848 km
Japan has told the U.S. it is against increasing the permissible range and payload of South Korean missiles, a senior diplomatic source said Tuesday.

Seoul is having a hard time persuading Washington to revise a voluntary agreement that limits the range and payload.

The source said Tokyo "is taking a negative attitude toward Seoul's drastic extension of the missile range" from the current 300 km to over 800 km "for fear that a considerable part of the island nation would come within their range."

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